RPC Tedeco Gizeh saves energy and reduces maintenance costs Background RPC Tedeco Gizeh is a leading manufacturer of thermoformed drinking cups and vending cups. Piab partner Cymru Automation works with RPC on a variety of process improvement projects. The latest of these was to look at replacing electric vane pumps with Piab pumps to achieve energy savings and reduce maintenance costs. Solution Piab and Cymru Automation made a joint site visit to look at the AMAX machines where vacuum is used to hold down boxes during packing of the cups. It was identified that energy savings could be made by replacing the constantly running mechanical vacuum pumps with Piab piCLASSIC Si32-3 vacuum pump with piSAVE optimize energy saving. This allows the vacuum to be switched on only when needed and the l

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