TOP ESTONIAN ENTERPRISES

Photo: Toomas Tuul
turn to. Flow also helps to organise everything if
the bottle washing machine needs to be demounted
in Holland and moved to Estonia as was
required by Coca-Cola. For example, the brewer
has been moved from Latvia Cesis to Germany.
The latter was taken into parts, put on the truck,
taken to Germany and there also mounted.
“We pursue to provide quality and as integral solutions
as possible,“ Laanet says. Different solutions
– more expensive and cheaper, more
effective and less effective – are offered to the
client. There is quite a pile of different product
catalogues on the office desk of Flow. “The client
says what it wants. We find the solution, offer the
variants and complete these,“ Laanet says.
The main cooperation partner is one of the
world’s leading providers of special solution of
food industries - the Swedish major group Alfa
Laval which has representations in Estonia and
Latvia. Flow also deals slightly with production,
by making the pipe collectors, smaller containers
etc in Tallinn.
What is most important in this business? “Reliability,“
Laanet says. If you prepare an unreasonably
big invoice for the client, it would search
someone else as a partner next time. Also, all
equipment should be faultlessly functioning so
that the producer would not lose money. But the
highest risk? As the works are project-based,
the next project might not come.“ The projects
planned long in advance could be unexpectedly
changed or cancelled, depending on whether
the plans of the industries are successful. Up to
now the company has been operating only in the
period of economic growth. Now one should adjust
to the new situation.
“Our growth is partly due to the success of our
clients. They have been able to invest a lot. If
they are doing well, so are we and vice versa,“
she says. The company has not experienced
considerable fall in work volume. In the opinion
of Laanet the reason is that no one leaves the
food products non-purchased, whatever the circumstances
might be.
One of the most recent plans of Flow is to enter
more powerfully to the Latvian market. The Latvian
economy is still in deep crisis, but this is
just the best time according to Laanet. No major
risks will be though taken in the south.
Flow Service has twenty employees, the majority
of whom are the locksmiths and welders. All
employees are the specialists of their field who
often participate in the trainings and visit international
fairs to be well aware of the most recent
solutions.
WORKS PERFORMED BY FLOW SERVICE
• Norfolier AS – cabling of oxidizer and ventilation
• Värska Vesi AS – connecting the equipment
of the new filling workshop, construction of
water treatment systems and tube plates,
installation of mixers
• Cesu Alus – matrix for 8 measure tanks, reconstruction
of mixer of soft drinks, distribution
knot of syrup, construction of the new
CIP line and reconstruction of the old ones,
expansion of brewing cellar – 8 new brewing
tanks including the reconstruction of the old
part, installation of GEA beer separator, installation
of the new labeller for PET line,
changes of conveyors and installation of roll
tracks in bottling line of the glass bottle, installation
of the equipment of the yeast
preservation and growing room.
• A.Le Coq Tartu Õlletehas AS – moving and
installation of the mixer, installation of the
new PET line, mounting of the transporter
tracks, reconstruction of mixture.
• Kalev Paide Production Unit – construction
of CIP line.
• Coca-Cola HBC AS – exchange of the pumps
of the washing line of the glass bottle.
• Delimeat OÜ – reconstruction of meat loading
line, platforms.
• Steelmans OY – replacement of the covers of
the cheese tubs of Valio Lapinlahti.
• Pärnu Õlu AS – reconstruction of the water
collector and brewing tank cooling system
• IMCO – moving of Idealplast from Sweden to
Tallinn including installation.
• Põltsamaa Felix – installation of pasteurization
and washing centre.
• Põlva Piim – pasteurization connection
pipes, connection pipes of mixer, connection
of containers.
• Saarek AS – connection of the filling equipment
of kettle and containers, pipelines of
the washing centre.
• A Le Coq Tartu Õlletehas – fittings of the new
logistics centre.
• Coca-Cola HBC Eesti AS – dismantling of the
bottle washing machine and transport from
Holland; construction of the new CIP centre.
• Cesu Alus – installation of the new brewer.
• Bayerische Löwenbrauerei Passau – moving
of brewer from Cesis to Passau.
• Maag Piimatööstus AS – construction of CIP
centre and installation and launching of the
production line of cottage cheese. •
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