First Milk’s new cheese chill plant exceeds Ecodesign Regulations’ Minimum Energy Efficiency Requirements by 75.2%

Star Refrigeration has replaced a cheese chill plant for First Milk at the height of Covid-19 restrictions to improve the cheese chilled store operating efficiency by 25% while increasing production throughput by 30%.
 
Last year, First Milk, the British dairy co-operative owned by the farmers who supply it, invested £3.5 million into upgrading its creamery facility to help achieve its net-zero carbon goals. As part of the refurbishment, an ageing cooling plant at their Aspatria site which ran on R404A – a synthetic refrigerant with high global warming potential (GWP)- was replaced with a zero carbon low charge ammonia chiller.