Sealed Air needed to separate a dusty process area from a clean room at their St. Neots facility.
Westgate Global delivered a complete solution: 45 linear metres of Flexiwall® tensioned fabric partitioning, fast-action doors, steel pedestrian doors, and vision panels, installed quickly and cleanly while production kept moving
Sealed Air (SEE) is a global leader in advanced, hygienic packaging solutions, with a mission centred on food safety, medical sterilisation, and product protection. Their portfolio includes some of the world’s most recognised packaging brands: CRYOVAC® for food packaging, BUBBLE WRAP® for protective cushioning, and Instapak® foam for industrial packaging. With operations spanning multiple industries and geographies, Sealed Air holds itself to the highest standards of hygiene and contamination control across all of its manufacturing sites.
At its St. Neots facility, Sealed Air needed to segregate a dusty process area from a clean room environment. Given that the company supplies packaging products to the food and beverage industry, maintaining strict contamination control is a critical requirement. Any ingress of dust or particulates into clean areas risks compromising the integrity of packaging products that will come into direct contact with food. Sealed Air required a robust, reliable partitioning solution capable of achieving a dust-tight seal, while causing minimal disruption to ongoing production.
Sealed Air selected Westgate Global as their integrated solutions provider, recognising our experience and expertise in project managing the delivery of solutions within complex manufacturing environments.
To meet the challenge, we supplied and installed three runs of Flexiwall partitioning system, totalling 45 linear metres across the facility. Rather than constructing traditional fixed walls, which would mean significant downtime, mess, and disruption, Flexiwall’s tensioned fabric panels hang from the building’s existing structure and are tensioned down to the floor create a 99%+ dust-tight seal. Where panels meet, they overlap in a V-shape, creating a seal that reliably keep the dust out, and because installation is clean and fast, the St. Neots team were able to keep production running throughout.
The partition walls were only part of the picture. To make the segregated zones fully functional, the installation also incorporated Fastflex® fast action doors for high-speed motorised access between areas, Anchorwall® steel pedestrian doors to create secure, restricted access points, and vision panels and shutter doors throughout to maintain sightlines and operational flexibility.
The completed installation gave Sealed Air a reliable, compliant segregation solution that met their stringent contamination control requirements, protecting the quality and integrity of their food and beverage packaging products. Installation was quick and clean, allowing production at the St. Neots facility to continue with minimal disruption throughout the project.
"Food and beverage packaging manufacturers operate to some of the strictest contamination control standards in any industry. At St. Neots, the challenge was creating a dust-tight barrier between two very different environments without bringing production to a standstill. Flexiwall was the right solution for that brief, and the speed and cleanliness of the installation meant Sealed Air's team barely noticed we were there."
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