Case study
Turnkey Malt and Grain Distillery in China
Location: Qionglai in the Province of Chengdu, China
Scope: Briggs of Burton’s distillery engineering team have delivered an EPC/Turnkey project to the Shanghai Bacchus Company Ltd .
- The Greenfield distillery project (150,000 m²) will be developed in two phases:
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- Phase I – 32.5 million litres pure alcohol (MLPA) capacity
- Phase 2 – an additional 32.5 million litres pure alcohol (MLPA) capacity
- Briggs of Burton’s process design and distillery engineering allows the Shanghai Bacchus Company distillery to produce:
- Chinese Malt Whisky
- Chinese Grain Whisky
- Bourbon style grain whiskey
- Grain Neutral Spirit
- Vodka
- Design, engineering, and manufacture of specialist distilling equipment including:
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- Briggs market leading distillery mashing equipment
- McMillan Copper pot stills
- Full EPC/Turnkey distillery project management:
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- Briggs leading stage-gate commissioning approach
Briggs of Burton as part of CETP have worked closely with Briggs Asia and ZIEMANN HOLVRIEKA Asia Co., Ltd . to deliver this EPC/Turnkey project in Qionglai in the Province of Chengdu, China.
McMillan Coppersmiths and Fabricators part of the Briggs Group are supplying the traditional handcrafted Scottish copper pot stills, copper condensers, and copper and brass spirit safes.
Briggs of Burton and Shanghai Bacchus Company Ltd together wrote a Chinese Whisky article for the Institute of Brewing and Distilling Magazine (June 2020) – (34-37 pages).
