Powering a new cotton plant in time for bumper harvest
Aggreko delivered reliable bridging power solution to a cotton processing plant in New South Wales, enabling seamless operations during a bumper harvest. This rapid and modular plant power solution prevented $100,000 in daily losses, supporting the processing of 10% of Australia’s cotton yield.
- The Challenge
More power for huge new cotton ginning plant
- The Solution
Rapidly deployed, modular generators and remote monitoring
- The Impact
$100k daily losses avoided and equivalent of 800 million pairs of socks processed
Client:Carroll Cotton Company
Location:Liverpool Plains, New South Wales, Australia
Sectors:Agriculture
The Challenge
More power for huge new cotton ginning plant
The Carroll Cotton Company have been in business in the fertile Liverpool plains region, New South Wales, Australia, for more than two decades. In that time, the business has grown to meet global demands for their quality product.
This successful cotton ginning enterprise had reached a crossroads – invest in a new cotton ginning plant to accommodate rising demand? Or do they stay at the same level?
In business, there is no such choice and that meant the plant was built. This was to deal with the huge amount of crop that would be processed – around 10% of Australia’s entire yield.
But with a new plant comes other requirements. Carroll Cotton Company had everything covered of course – but what about powering the plant?
A decision had to be made while infrastructure to the grid was upgraded to meet requirements – or big losses could be incurred.