Zorba

Industry: Food manufacturing

Service: Energy efficiency, Climate Change Agreement compliance, energy purchasing and invoice validation

Result: £150k annual energy savings, £16k Climate Change Agreement savings

About Zorba Delicacies

Zorba Delicacies is one of the UK’s leading manufacturers of chilled fresh dips and deli sandwich fillings, supplying retailers, wholesalers, foodservice and industry with a wide range of products.

The project brief

Zorba Delicacies asked Innovative Energy Consultancy (IEC) to manage various aspects of its energy provision, including purchasing energy for its state-of-the-art factory in South Wales, and managing its Climate Change Agreement (CCA0 obligations.

The solution

Key programmes include:

• Delivery of a mentoring programme, supported by the Carbon Trust, which promotes the issue of energy efficiency among all staff.  This has led to consistent changes in behaviour to reduce energy consumption on a day-to-day basis
• Management of energy purchasing – obtaining the best price for utilities and ongoing analysis of cost against production
• Implementation of a number of energy-saving measures, including reduction of heat loss and installation of timer controls on steam boilers
• Monitoring and submission of reports to ensure compliance with CCA legislation
• Implementation of a number of initiatives to help reduce energy consumption in line with CCA targets
• Management of parent company’s Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) requirements.

“Innovative Energy understands our needs and the idiosyncrasies of the food industry which means we can trust them to buy our energy and simply let them get on with doing a great job in ensuring that our energy consumption is minimised.

“Some of IEC’s solutions have been very simple and inexpensive to implement.  For example, the installation of a door alarm means that staff are now less likely to waste heating by leaving  it open and timing devices on boilers and refrigerators also makes a big difference.

“As external consultants they look at what we do with a fresh set of eyes, helping us achieve a greater degree of energy efficiency than if we were managing energy ourselves.

Chris Nash, Managing Director, Zorba Delicacies