Telford, UK: Asda has installed 100 Seymour Green Doors in stores for its Click & Collect service.
Seymour Manufacturing International’s Green-Door replaces unwieldy sliding ‘night doors’ in freezers and chillers.
The door uses Tempro, one of the thinnest and most thermally-efficient materials of its kind developed by Seymour and which cuts energy loss by at least 25% in chillers, and 33% in freezers.
Brian Churchyard, senior manager for engineering, net zero and energy, Asda, said Asda has been impressed with the products and support.
“As a company we are determined to reduce the impact our stores have on the environment, and thanks to the Green-Door product, we’ve already been able to save a considerable amount of energy.
“It was an obvious choice for us to invest in yet more Green-Door products to protect the chilled areas in our Click & Collect areas where our customers’ orders were stored.
Brian Seymour , chairman, Seymour, said: “We developed Green-Door after years of painstaking research and nearly a decade of stringent tests at sites across England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, and it is now opening the door to significant financial savings for major retailers.
“Our aim was to create a quality door that would require little maintenance, was easy to use, and saved significant amounts of energy and carbon.
“And Green-Door has been a huge success making the much-hated supermarket night door redundant in chillers and freezers, saving capital, maintenance costs, nuisance value and labour. The advantages and savings are enormous.
“Taking return on investment into account, the Green-Door could pay for itself on day one, depending on what size and cost retailers pay for a night door. The saving on maintenance and labour is a bonus.”
