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Innovation is the key to sustainability
Karl Hodgson, sales director at Adande, highlights the need for innovation in the refrigeration sector to help operators meet their sustainability goals.
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ustainability remains high on the agenda for retailers and food service operators, not just in terms of energy efficiency, but also life cycle cost and the reduction of food waste. In many ways, OEMs have failed to meet end users’ green ambitions and it has become increasingly clear that the refrigeration industry needs innovation to meet demands for more sustainable solutions. The failure of many manufacturers to provide products which meet operators’ demands for sustainability has been further underlined by the introduction of legislation covering the display of energy efficiency labels on professional refrigerated storage cabinets.
EU Energy Labelling Regulations
On 1 July 2016 Regulation (EU) 2015/1094 came into force, stating that all professional refrigerated storage cabinets should display labels, showing energy efficiency based on a scale of A or A+++ (most efficient) to G (least efficient). Many industry professionals heralded the introduction of these regulations as a watershed for energy efficiency in the sector. On the one hand end users would benefit from transparency in comparing the relative efficiency of refrigeration products. On the other hand, OEMs would be compelled to redesign and re-engineer products to obtain the best possible energy ratings. A trawl through the brochures on the websites of refrigeration manufacturers will reveal that the energy ratings of many refrigerators are less than satisfactory, with a large proportion of cabinets rated as only C or D. Admittedly, there are some upright products which are
displaying A or B classifications, but these
tend to be cabinets with lower storage volumes and therefore a lower duty. To the best of my knowledge, only the Adande HCS R2 and HCR R2 models have achieved an A+ energy rating.
The main issue with conventional upright refrigerators is that cold air spills from the cabinet every time the door is opened, increasing duty and energy consumption, whilst compromising stable product temperatures. It was this observation which
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