Bakkavör signs energy management contract

To drive down lighting and energy costs, fresh prepared foods firm Bakkavör has signed a contract with energy management company Dalkia to service two of the group’s production plants in Lincolnshire.

Dalkia's planned lighting maintenance programme covers Bakkavör’s Bourne Salads and Bourne Stir Fry plants. It includes: full cleaning and lamp replacement on damaged and faulty lamps; the fitting of new lighting; and a full maintenance programme backed by a comprehensive guarantee to remove the need for expensive ad hoc maintenance call-outs.

Lighting represents 15-20% of the factories’ electricity costs and key to the programme is the use of specialist lighting that meets the requirements of food processing areas, such as fragment retention lamps.

”For ongoing work such as lighting, implementing a planned preventative maintenance programme can reap significant financial savings that constitutes relatively quick wins for any organisation,” claimed Dalkia. “By undertaking the replacement of lamps in these production plants, we are able to deliver on savings brought about through a reduction in the number of unforeseen failures that would otherwise happen.”

The outsourced nature of the contract also has inherent environmental benefits. The reduction of reactive call-outs to lamp failures has the effect of reducing road miles, said Dalkia. A specialist team that is able to retrofit lamps with no disruption to production means that the plants do not suffer due to downtime, it added.

Bourne Stir Fry said: “By outsourcing the lighting needs at both Bourne plants we have seen both a reduction in the number of call-outs for maintenance purposes, and the associated energy costs.”