| Reduced
water, energy and detergent consumption
Ralf Hubner
managing director Hobart German
vice president Hobart Europe
Progress in
any field is impossible unless there is innovation and this will
only happen if there is a vision for the future.
Hobart is
already the world’s largest manufacturer of commercial dishwashers
and leading supplier to the cruise industry but it also wants
to be the first to create a dishwasher which does not need to
use any water.
“Dishwashing
without water” is an ambitious target but the market can
only be changed by such genuine innovation and so Hobart has constantly
increased the level of its investment in research and development.
Having spent
€1m over the past three years, it will double that over the
next three as the investment has already resulted in impressive
and successful new products.
The new PREMAX
dishwasher series has set new standards for reduced water, energy
and detergent consumption and Hobart has already applied for more
than 100 patents to protect the new technology solutions which
are behind this range, launched in 2007 and manufactured in Germany.
A new switchable
steam rinse on the PREMAX FP undercounter model means it requires
only 1.6 litres of fresh water per cycle while the latest model
- the PREMAX CP rack-type dishwasher - was added to the product
range earlier this year. This promises 50% savings in water, 40%
in energy and 80% in chemicals.
At the end
of 2008, Hobart received the APRIA award innovation prize at the
EquipHotel hospitality show in Paris for the PREMAX AUP, its new
model hood-style dishwasher.
The company
was also again voted among the top 100 German companies for innovation
and enterprise.
This all
reflects the way the company has continued to follow through on
its own mission statement code: “Understand-Simplify-Focus-Innovate”. |
