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Cold-Korner wins with Waitrose
SUPERMARKET CHAIN WAITROSE has worked with Seymour Manufacturing International to develop and refine a new innovation which provides food stores with an instant chilled space, wherever and whenever they need it. Cold-Korner is the brainchild of Seymour Manufacturing International, which manufacturers and supplies thermal insulation systems using its celebrated lightweight energy-saving material, Tempro.
Waitrose funded the
development and placed Cold- Korner units in two of its busy London stores, allowing SMI to test the product in real-life situations.
Now, after a year of trials, SMI says it is hoping to roll out the product to a host of other retailers.
“We are grateful to Waitrose for their co-operation,” said SMI managing director Brian Seymour.
“We have supplied Waitrose for more than 35 years with a variety of our products, and appreciate their unbiased opinion and professional business-like observations. “So they were a natural choice for Cold-Korner. We undertake significant trials for years with all of our new products, but field use is always the most valuable.”
Cold-Korner is an easy-to- install flexible enclosure which can turn an area of a store room into an instant chill space, only when needed. It can create a 2°C
temperature in under 15 minutes from a 13 amp evaporator with fast draw down, and takes on average just four hours to install.
SMI’s Track-Rack shelving inside the chill zone ensures maximum storage and protection of produce, and the system requires little service or maintenance.
.Waitrose has been using Cold-Korner in its store at Highbury since March of last year, and in its Clapham Common branch since last August.
Mr Seymour said: “There is no doubt that Cold-Korner can increase a company’s sales and reduce delivery costs, with minimal capital outlay. “It can be designed on a bespoke basis, extended, adapted, or relocated, and all parts can be repaired, replaced or recycled.
“The Waitrose partnership has allowed us to carry out continuous monitoring of Cold-Korner’s performance during its day-to-day use, and we now plan to introduce the product in different sizes to other groups and uses.” Jemma Williams, convenience operations manager at Waitrose, said: “We approached SMI to support us developing an instant chilled space when we need it. “The Cold-Korner is a flexible refrigeration solution which has helped us to maximise space in our smaller formats. We will look to utilise the solution in future stores and formats where suitable.”
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