It is the third year in succession CHR Equipment has achieved podium placing at the awards, each time in a different category- it won the award for outstanding customer service in 2009 and the large scale public sector award in 2010. Ron Neville, founder and CEO of CHR Equipment, commented, “The Sustainability Award is the most prestigious, and we were up against some very big players, which amplifies our achievement. It says a lot for our team that we have been recognised by industry leaders for three years in succession, and each time for a different aspect, demonstrating our ability, consistency and versatility.”
Judges of the Awards Peter Wintle, former executive chef at the Birmingham Metropole and Bev Puxley, former head of the school of catering & hotel studies at Westminster College commented, “CHR not only saved energy by a careful choice of cooking equipment, but they also made further significant energy savings by reducing the amount of air extraction and tempered air input to the kitchen by around 35%.”
The brief to CHR Equipment for the Cadbury World kitchen, which provides an average 900 meals/week, was to design a new kitchen that would meet today’s requirements in terms of energy usage in peak times whilst still maintaining production.
Gerrard Baldwin, Cadbury World general manager, said, “IT was a tricky project- to create a modern environment that would be easy to clean and sustainable, installed with minimal impact on our day-to-day business. A key aim was to reduce the power requirement, in line with Cadbury’s’ corporate sustainability policy, and we are achieving an overall saving of about 30%: better than we hoped for. Using CHR delivered everything we asked, and more, on time and on budget.
