Cherry Valley to save £30000 on freezing costs with ABB variable-speed drives

One of the UK’s largest producers of duck products is set to save £30,000 a year on freezing costs following the introduction of ABB variable-speed drives on its blast chiller application. Cherry Valley Farms of Lincolnshire rears some eight million ducks every year and processes 45,000 birds a day. Some are prepared as fresh duck products but most are frozen in the company’s ten blast chiller bays. Each bay has two 4 kW motors turning…