Rakaia Island Dairy Farm, Southbridge
Compressor upgrade brings immediate results for busy dairy farm
Issue
Rakaia Island is a large farming operation in Canterbury, comprising six dairy units and a dry stock unit. Each one runs as one farm in two locations, Rakaia Island and Woodstock.
Rakaia Island has a 2275 hectare milking platform and 4700 hectares of support land. The farm has over 50 staff and 9,000 KiwiCross cows.
Periodic failures of its dairy shed compressors led to a lot of maintenance costs. The shed’s 7.5kw piston compressors were struggling and there was no compressed air dryer to protect end-user equipment.
Action
PSL Total Air presented a solution that included replacing the aging 7.5kw piston compressors with the Kaeser SM13T screw compressor with integrated dryers.
Result
The new compressor immediately improved compressed air reliability of supply and aided the life expectancy of critical equipment. The quality of the compressed air was also improved and all milking systems are up to par, much to the delight of the Rakaia Island dairy farm owners.
The new compressor immediately improved compressed air reliability of supply and aided the life expectancy of critical equipment.
