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Microdat Cask Washer arrives safely at St Austell Brewery
3 May 2012
After a long journey the Microdat CW340 Cask Washer arrived safely in Cornwall at it's new home at St Austell brewery.Read...
Microdat Cask Washer leaves for St Austell Brewery
26 April 2012
In yesterdays downpour we carefully lifted to Microdat CW340 Cask Washer onto the truck for it’s journey down to St Austell Brewery in Cornwall. The cask washer forms part of the new Cask Packaging plant Microdat are currently developing with the St Austell Brewery – watch this space for more updates. Read...
Microdat launch One Trip Keg Filler
12 March 2012
Brewery beer and cider kegs have traditionally been reusable which necessitates a keg washer filler to reprocess the keg when it’s returned after use. The standard beer keg is a sealed pressure vessel with a complex central double valve arrangement, usually called a spear, as a part of the valve arrangement is a long spear like tube. To wash a brewery...Read...
Microdat Management Changes
23 January 2012
Microdat, the Leeds based specialist in brewery plant and control systems, is restructuring operations in order to take advantage of the increasing opportunities in the Real Ale sector and to provide enhanced customer service capabilities to its growing customer base. The Company is concentrating all operations into the Leeds site. As a consequence of this...Read...
Timothy Taylor's film their fully automated cask washing line installed by Microdat
23 January 2012
Microdat are proud to see our machines in film, working and cleaning the Timothy Taylor's Cask Washing Line. Filmed at Timothy Taylor's brewery in their new extension - the line de-stack casks from pallets or locator boards, takes out the keystone and shive bungs and washes the casks in the Microdat state-of-the-art washer . To see the full video of...Read...
Congratulations Ruth Evans
4 January 2012
Microdat would like to take the opportunity to formally congratulate Ruth Evans MBE. 2012 looks already set to be a great year but what a fantastic start for our friend and colleague Ruth Evans from the BFBi, who, on the New Years Honours List, was awarded the MBE for her services to the industry and especially to export. Well Done and...Read...
Jaccuzzi UK celebrate 400 000 sink with the Microdat Sink Mould Machine
26 October 2011
Last week, after approximately 3 years of running, the bespoke Microdat sink moulding machines made their 400,000th sink. Rob Burrows from Jacuzzi UK says, " Over the last year their unique design and controls have allowed us to innovate products and processes beyond anything considered before. Strengthening our business...Read...
Yorkshire Post report on Timothy Taylor's Upgrade which includes Microdat machines
24 October 2011
An interesting article in the 15 September 2011 issue of Yorkshire Post takes a look at the £11m upgrade of the Timothy Taylor plant which includes machinery from Microdat. Read the full article here... YORKSHIRE POST Read...
Sales Soar for Microdat DeShive DeKeystone Machines
2 September 2011
This summer has seen the final production of Tetley bitter in Leeds on a cask packing line which, when it was installed in the mid 1980s, was the most automated in the world. Stephen Midgley the owner and founder of Microdat was parachuted into Tetley’s in 1986 as a new engineer to the brewing industry with a remit to address challenges associated with their...Read...
Saving the world one Shive at a time.
8 August 2011
Microdat are always looking for ways to help the environment. Having already developed many green, energy saving machines ourselves, we love to find other companies that are helping save our plant too. Delta Products from West Sussex have over 30 years company with over 30 years experience specialising in the processing, recycling and trading of a wide range of...Read...
Microdat play in BFBi Northern Section Golf Day
25 July 2011
Microdat entered team into the BFBI Northern Section on the 1st July at Warrington Golf Club, Cheshire, the team was Andy Humphrey (BFBI Northern Section Chairman) Microdat Sales Director, Mark Roberts who is the Senior Process Engineer at Microdat, Dany Payne & Steve Fowbert who were Microdat guests from Heineken Tadcaster. The day was well supported and...Read...
Roger Protz gives his nod of approval over the new Microdat brewery development at Moorhouses
4 July 2011
David Grant (Moorhouse's MD), Roger Protz (editor of the Good Beer Guide and Britain's leading Beer writer), Bill Parkinson (Chairman of Moorhouse's) and Microdat's Steve Midgley (MD), Matthew Hadwen (Operations Director), Andy Humphrey (Sales Director), Mark Roberts (Projects Manager) and David Midgley (Technical Director) toast the opening of the new...Read...
Finance Yorkshire makes major investment in Microdat
13 June 2011
A Leeds-based brewery equipment manufacturer is raising a glass to fulfilling its order books after receiving a £500,000 equity linked investment from Finance Yorkshire. Microdat is the second company to receive an equity linked investment from Finance Yorkshire. The designer and manufacturer of equipment for the brewing industry uses...Read...
Microdat and Wye Valley Brewery
1 June 2011
Microdat has been appointed by Wye Valley Brewery to supply their prestigious new brewery expansion project. The decision was made after reviewing proposals from three UK providers, and was made on the basis of overall cost, and the flexibility of Microdat’s approach to major brewing projects. Microdat has a long-standing relationship with Wye...Read...
British Beer Video Blog - April features Moorhouses Brewery and Microdat Machines
9 May 2011
Latest episode: http://britishbeervideoblog.blogspot.com/ Filmed at Moorhouse's in Burnley, this is the country's newest British cask-conditioned beer brewery, Peter Amor explores the brewery with Managing Director David Grant. ***Look out for Microdat machines... Read...