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Meeting the Lower Emissions Challenge at Chris Hayter Transport

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:13:00 GMT

To drive within the London Low Emission Zone (LEZ), covering most of greater London, a HGV vehicle must meet stringent emission standards that limit the amount of particulate matter coming from its exhaust. Particulate matter (“PM”) or ‘soot’ is a type of pollution that can contribute to asthma, heart and lung disease, other respiratory illnesses and even early death, and particularly affects the young and the elderly of society.

The European Commission estimates that air pollution is responsible for over 300,000 deaths in Europe each year, more than caused by road accidents. Furthermore, the estimated human health cost to the European economy attributed to air pollution is between 427-760 billion Euros per year.

Ever mindful of its environmental responsibilities, Chris Hayter Transport Ltd has embarked on an ambitious programme of vehicle modifications, fitting state of the art Purifier™ e4 systems to its pallet delivery HGV fleet. These are supplied by the UK industry leading specialist technology provider Clean Diesel Technologies Ltd.

The Purifier™ e4 is based on a wall flow diesel particulate filter for maximum performance, to bring vehicles up to the Euro 4/EPA Level 3 standards. When used in conjunction with ‘Platinum Plus’ fuel additive, the Purifier e4 is unique in providing up to 99% reductions in PM, while actually decreasing overall NOx levels, and with no increase in NO2. This makes Clean Diesel Purifier systems especially attractive for LEZ areas with NO2 or NOx sensitivities.

If you want to know more about these policies, you can read about them on our resources page or feel free to contact us.

Additional Storage Space in our Witney & Skelmersdale Depots

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:53:00 GMT

Ever mindful of the need to evolve and adapt its operations to meet new challenges, Chris Hayter Transport has recently completed the refurbishment and reorganisation of two of its premier warehouse facilities based at Witney and Skelmersdale, whose operations now provide 24hour picking, packing and loading capability, enabling same day/next day delivery certainty for our customers personally delivered by CHT’s own fleet of dedicated drivers.

Along with our other warehouse storage facilities,strategically placed around the UK, we provide a combined 350,000 sq ft of ambient/chilled storage space that allow us to accommodate and offer a complete mix of customer storage solutions, ranging from food stuffs through to spanners and books, with each service personally tailored to meet each of our customer’s exacting requirements.

Confident in our processes and backed by a robust fully computerised stock handling and full auditing capability, we have recently created 30,000 sq ft of available storage space at our Witney storage facility and a further 20,000 sq ft of space at our Skelmersdale depot which make full use of these capabilities.

If you are interested in being a customer of CHT, and wish to experience ‘The Chris Hayter Standard’ to bespoke customer service, then you can read more about our storage solutions or contact us directly for more details.

Latest Recycling Initiative at Chris Hayter Transport

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:46:00 GMT

Ever mindful of costly ‘landfill’ taxes, the unnecessary road miles travelled in having to transport loose waste, and more importantly the detrimental effect on the environment by burying waste generally, CHT have for some years adopted a strict policy of recycling its waste when and wherever it is possible to do so.

In recent years, CHT has heavily invested in specialist baling equipment ... such as the CK450 cardboard baler, the consequence of which is that, at ‘Jervis’, we now recycle 100% of all cardboard packaging waste and 100% of its clear plastic wrap, such that CHT have turned what was a operational ‘cost’ to the business into a modest but welcome income stream.

During the 12 months to May 2011, CHT had successfully baled 260+ tonnes of cardboard and 47 tonnes of plastic wrap, with all baled product being collected by a specialist provider on purpose built trailers to be recycled into new / raw material product.

Recycling of Pallets at Chris Hayter Transport

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:40:00 GMT

In addition, 100% of all waste wooden pallets are either repaired or are recycled into alternative wood chip products. Even ‘general waste’, once normally associated with expensive and wasteful landfill, is now collected by a specialist service provider who sorts the content, claiming an 85% success rate on recyclable material.

CHT will endeavour to source all stationery and janitorial products from renewable and sustainable resources. And as part of the internal routine audits which take place, CHT now include key ‘environmental’ elements as part of its standard site audit, and which aims to measure impact on the environment and with a focus on sustainability.

Latest Developments At Our Jervis House Transport Office, Witney

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:32:00 GMT

Aware of modern technology delivering more efficient results in many facets of our business, CHT have taken a particular interest in the new generation of White Light LED High Bay lighting now available to industry in recent years.

These well engineered and robust LED lights will save CHT more than 66% of its existing lighting costs, even more through the expedient use of good automated lighting management which we have now installed.

The recent installation of high bay LED lights at ‘Jervis House’ has resulted in improved efficiency, a near zero maintenance lighting system, and a happier workforce as the lighting levels are so much superior to our original sodium lighting just from a straight one for one swap. Staff are happier working during the hours of darkness due to the brighter light and resulting in a nicer atmosphere for all to work in.

CHT are especially pleased to have made an effective contribution to the lowering of its carbon emissions as, by the installation of the new LED lighting system, we have saved circa 134 tons of carbon per year compared to our old system ... a fact we are rather proud of!

CHT will carefully monitor the carbon savings as the year progresses and beyond, as with the intelligent lighting management systems provided, we are on target to save even more carbon, helping to protect both the future health of our business and that of our planet. In short, we are delighted to have discovered the ‘Dialight’ LED high bay lighting solution ... as recommended and supplied by Interior Control Ltd.

Changes To Our Skelmersdale Storage and Transport Depot

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:46:00 GMT

The triple challenge set for our specialist lighting system designer was to:

significantly improve the quality of the existing warehouse lighting (moving away from the depressing yellow SON discharge to a much more appealing 'White light');
slash our energy costs; and
reduce our carbon footprint on site.

Meeting this challenge, our system designer from Fitzgerald Industrial Lighting recommended to us the ‘T5’ Superior Warehouse luminaire with sensor control.

Recommending the complete replacement of the existing SON discharge lighting system (... which was effectively switched on at full output for 24hrs a day, 6 days a week, with discharge lamps that required replacing after approx 10,000hrs of useful lighting levels).

Whereas, the newly installed SPW luminaires (‘T5’ Superior Warehouse luminaire) are specifically designed to offer 100% illuminance when presence is detected, fading back to 10% illuminance levels when the task has been undertaken and the area vacated, and yet still leaving an adequate background lighting that provides security and comfort to people working in the building.

We believe that there is nothing worse than staff having to work in an area with all of the surrounding area in total darkness, which can prove intimidating to the workforce. With sensor control, by dimming back to 10% during periods of inactivity, the savings on normal lighting are around 80% of full output. By dimming back rather than 'switch on and switch off' when needed, these SPW lamps will last much longer, offering much higher output through life of around 25,000hrs useful life, meaning that CHT’s maintenance costs are reduced by more than half!

Since installation of the ‘T5’ technology, CHT staff at Skelmersdale have experienced a substantially improved quality of light together with an improved colour perception, making it much easier for them to read labels and see products right up to the top of the racking.

CHT are rightly proud to have helped make an effective contribution to the lowering of its carbon emissions, saving circa 90-100 tonnes of carbon per year compared to our old lighting system, and whilst saving 70% of its existing lighting costs.