Sweet savings for Cadbury as it plugs its air leaks
May 1st 2010 Cadbury's promise to halve its
CO2 emission levels by 2020
has moved a step closer
thanks to Brammer, whose
compressed air energy solutions have
reduced carbon emissions at
Cadbury's site at Chirk, North Wales,
by more than 100t.
A full air leakage audit carried out
by Brammer on the machinery at the
Chirk site demonstrated that
Cadbury had leakages equivalent to
an annual value of more than
£32,000 in wasted energy. The cost to
repair the leaks was £1500, less than
5% of the leakage cost identified.
A list of components was drawn
up and numbered to correspond to
the tagged air leakages to help
precisely schedule the work and
minimise downtime when the
repairs took place.
In the future, a computer-aided
web-based leakage management
system will provide data on where
leakages are occurring.
Matt Bardell of Cadbury is
delighted with the results: "The
compressed air solution specification
is much more efficient than our
previous set-up and we're really
starting to see a healthy reduction in
our energy consumption as a result."
Cadbury made a commitment to
cut global carbon emissions when it
launched the 'Purple Goes Green'
initiative in 2007. This outlined plans
to reduce CO2 emissions by 50% by
2020 and encouraged all employees
to take action.
Jeremy Salisbury of Brammer
believes energy efficiency is an ideal
way for businesses to look to reduce
costs as well as improve their
environmental credentials: "Cadbury
is backing up its commitment to
carbon savings and is reaping the
financial rewards as a result." More articles from Brammer UK Ltd: | 
