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Carel victorious at
World Beverage Innovation Awards
C
arel was recently crowned the
winner in the World Beverage
Innovation Awards 2017’s “Best
environmental sustainability initiative”
category for its Heez control solution for
beverage coolers.
Carel’s Heez, designed as a top-
efficiency and energy-saving solution for
the control and management of beverage
Carel’s Heez control solution for beverage
coolers won in the “Best environmental
sustainability initiative” category.
coolers, has been recognised as the best
environmental sustainability product at the
World Beverage Innovation Awards.
The World Beverage Innovation Awards
celebrate excellence and innovation
across every category of the global
beverage industry and recognise the most
innovative products and technologies on
the market.
“The fact that Heez won this award
emphasises Carel’s excellent reputation as
long-standing company driver of innovation
within the industry and validates our
efforts and our approach towards a more
responsible and sustainable industry,” says
Alessandro Greggio, Carel Group head of
refrigeration and retail.
Carel successfully nominated its new
Heez solution, which responds to regulations
and beverage companies’ challenges
to reduce environmental impact. This is
becoming imperative due to the large
spread of these types of refrigeration
units. Industry needs to respond to these
challenges by both taking direct action —
such as adopting the use of natural gases
(that is, propane for Heez) — and by aiming
at even lower energy consumption.
The challenge becomes more difficult
considering the need to keep unit
performance during the beverage’s
temperature pull-down. Through synergetic
use of continuous modulating devices,
such as rotary DC inverter compressors, the
cooler operation will adapt to both steady
operation and pull-down.
HIGH ENERGY EFFICIENCY
Tests conducted by an accredited laboratory
on a beverage cooler equipped with the
Heez solution, showed energy consumption
corresponding to an energy efficiency
index (EEI) that is better than any same-
category cooler published in the top 10.EU
(a consumer-orientated online search tool,
which presents the best models in various
product categories), indeed with an EEI
that is 47% lower than the average. This has
been achieved without compromising the
beverage pull-down times that, with Heez,
are in fact reduced by 62% compared to the
values allowed for by the test protocols.
Alessandro Greggio, Carel Group head of
refrigeration and retail (on left), accepting
the award from FoodBev Media.
These results apply to different refrigerated
merchandisers, both open front and glass
doors, as experienced by early adopters
and innovative customers’ units on show
during Drinktec (held 15–17 September in
Germany). CLA
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