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Greencore Food to Go,
The Customer
The world’s largest sandwich manufacturer, Greencore’s food to go division in the UK, produces in excess of 500m ‘food on the move’ products a year for many of the UK’s major retailers, including pre-packed sandwiches, wraps, prepared salads and sushi.
To support a well-known high street chain’s growing demand for freshly made pre-packed sandwiches, Greencore expanded their facilities in Northampton by officially opening a new multi-million pound purpose-built factory in 2016.
The Brief
This new unique facility spanning over three operational floors with a floor area of 15,793m²/170,000ft², was the largest refrigeration installation project carried out by JD Cooling Group.
On behalf of the main contractor, JD Cooling Group successfully delivered a design that is highly efficient, environmentally sustainable and HFC free, which will, going forward will achieve significant energy cost savings to the customer.
JD Cooling (Group) delivered a high quality HFC free refrigeration system for Northampton, that has helped us achieve our goal of BREEAM ‘Good’ sustainability rating for the building.
Senior Project Manager, Greencore
The Solution
The new state-of-the-art installation consists of the following:
- Secondary cooling systems driven by ammonia chillers, adiabatic cooling and water-to-water ammonia driven heat pumps.
- Glycol ring main serving the various room coolers and air handling units within all chilled and production areas including canteen.
- CO2 cascade process supporting a blast freezer, running in conjunction with the glycol and ammonia systems.
- Ammonia heat pump recovering waste heat from the cooling process, which boosts the temperature to supply hot water to all wash down areas.
- Highly efficient adiabatic cooling system that projects waste heat to the atmosphere.
- Modern fully welded stainless steel fittings and inverted pumps throughout.
- Full electrical services by JD Power Systems.
- Enabled Greencore to achieve a ‘Gold’ Sustainability Award.
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