The Highland Park Distillery was founded by Magnus Eunson in 1978. The name of this whisky doesn’t refer to the area of Scotland known as The Highlands, but rather to the fact that the distillery was founded on an area called ‘High Park’ distinguished from a lower area nearby.
“The existing outside units were in a state of disrepair when Powervamp were initially contacted…”
Highland Park to this day still malts its own barley, using locally cut peat from Hobbister Moor and is one of only a handful of distilleries that still retains a traditional malting floor, turning each batch of malt by hand, in what is a physically demanding process. The peat is mixed with heather before being used as fuel. The malt is peated to a level of 20 parts per million phenol and then mixed with unpeated malt produced on the Scottish mainland.
Powervamp have been supplying the Edrington Group, (also the holding company for Macallan and Highland Distillers), with ELI systems since 2008 and has built a strong working relationship over the years. Powervamp was approached by the Edrington due to the service provided at other sites.
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The existing outside units at the Orkney site had been in situ for some 15-20 years, but hadn’t been designed for the punishing weather and were in a state of disrepair when Powervamp were initially contacted on the project.
It was decided to replace all of the existing inverters with 8 x bespoke EF20 ELI systems, (as already supplied to the Macallan, Glenrothes and Glenturrent sites), and built into IP54 rated medical grade stainless steel enclosures. Each EF20 was to have its own bespoke wiring loom to allow the running of emergency, and non-emergency lights, meaning all controls to be located in the same area.
“Powervamp engineers had to work against a tight deadline…”
The units were collected from the Barton le Clay factory and driven on a dedicated vehicle to Aberdeen where they were loaded onto a ferry and set sail to Orkney.
The Powervamp engineers had to work against a tight deadline with the delivery date being set only 8 weeks after the order was originally placed. The production team, used to working under pressure, ensured the target date was met and the latest Edrington Group site was satisfied with the fast turnaround.
