Industry: Bakery Manufacturer
WarmTronics Application: Packaging Workstations
Finsbury Food Group Plc is a United Kingdom-based specialty bakery manufacturer of cake, bread and morning goods. The Company supplies bread and cakes through a variety of brands and channels, supplying retailers and the foodservice channel across the United Kingdom, and in Europe, with own brand and licensed brand bread and cakes.
The Company’s segments include UK bakery and overseas. Its UK bakery segment supply supermarkets, discounters and convenience stores within the retail sector and, either indirectly through the larger wholesalers or directly, hotels, pubs, restaurants, high street chains, fast food outlets and contract caterers within the United Kingdom foodservice sector.
Its overseas businesses supply the retail sector in France, Benelux, Switzerland, Spain, Poland, Scandinavia and Italy.
Its bakeries include Memory Lane Cakes, Fletchers, Kara, Johnstone’s Food Services, Lightbody, Lightbody Europe, Nicholas & Harris, Ultrapharm and Ultraeuropa.
WarmTronics have supplied an alternative heating for the Kara Foods plant in Manchester, where they were previously using 2x 3kw Infrared lamp heaters.
- Cost = Very expensive to run
- Wasted Energy = The heat rises straight up to the warehouse roof
- Fire risk = hot electrical element near cardboard or dust can ignite
Swapping the Existing 2x 3kw heaters, to 4x 0.2kw WarmTronics Heat Mats:
2x 3000W Radiant Lamp Heaters 24/7 shift = Est. £1,314.00 per month
4x WarmTronics Heat Mats: 24/7 shift = Est. £219.00 per month
Estimated Electricity Saving: = £1,095.00 per month / £6,570.00 per 6M Winter
