Case Study

Berry Bros. & Rudd Ltd makes essental

energy savings with a new KYMAN LED
lightng scheme. Britain's oldest wine and
spirit merchant, established in the 17th
century were honoured to hold two Royal
Warrants for H.M. The Queen and H.R.H.
The Prince of Wales. The Kyman Ledtex
team proposed to install a lightng upgrade
throughout their 90,000 sq f warehouse in
Basingstoke.
The premises manager for the site built in
1967, Alan Poole, was keen to replace the
current inefcient T8 and T12 tube ftngs,
especially within their cold stores. The
cooler temperature of the cold stores was
suitable for our old ftngs, the coolers
ensured that the stores stayed at a
temperature of 12C, though when Berry
Bros. & Rudd needed some routne repair
works done on the coolants, the
temperature in the stores rose by 2C, and
the tubes started to fail.
One of our Product Specialists at Kyman
Ledtex, recommended our KYMAN High
Output (HO) tubes not only due to their
impeccable consistent performance in
lower temperatures but also due to their
partcularly high luminous fux. The HO
tubes shine a lot brighter than conventonal
fuorescent lamps and so they were certain
to achieve a higher lux level throughout the
mezzanine grid foor even to the lower
level racking. This proved extremely
efectve as Berry Bros. and Rudds energy
usage was reduced by nearly 75% in the
wine bin area alone.
One of the forgoten benefts of LED
lightng is that there is no heat produced.
This means that with the new upgrade, the
coolant unit does not have to work as hard
to maintain a cool temperature throughout
the stores, saving even more money! The
new KYMAN LED tubes vastly improved
the lightng levels throughout the entre
warehouse. A like for like replacement
program was implemented and PIR moton
sensor were installed in between racking
aisles. These ensured a maximum return on
investment along with additonal saved
energy on lightng along unoccupied
walkways.
Kyman won the contract not only by
being the cheapest quote but they showed
a vision to work professionally with us and
to work round some of the issues that our
site has, in partcular the re-using of
ftngs where there is Asbestos present, as
this could not be removed or disturbed.
They were able to provide the perfect
soluton and were very efcient in
understanding our needs. Kyman Ledtex
were also aware that the lightng had to
work through a mezzanine grid and were
able to light the area below to the highest
standard a huge improvement compared
to what was already in place. The biggest
beneft has been in the reducton of
energy, which was notceable even during
the frst month of installaton. A decrease
of 14% Kw/H just for July year on year has
been met already; we are excited to see
savings during the winter! I would
certainly advise any client to install
KYMAN LEDs purely for the reducton in
maintenance costs and the energy savings
alone. Alan Poole, Site Services Manager
KYMAN ensured a smooth installaton and
met the clients needs promptly with litle
disturbance to the daily tmetable. Overall,
Berry Bros. and Rudd lightng across their
site is brighter, ofering employees an
enhanced working environment.
Additonally, Berry Bros. and Rudd have
been able to substantally reduce their
carbon footprint and save money all at the
same tme.
Headline Savings:
Annual electricity
saving: 81.71%
Annual electricity
savings: 6,680.59
Annual CO2 savings
KG: 50,652

Kyman Ledtex
For more informaton, visit: www.kymanledtex.com or call 02380 632059
Berry Bros. & Rudd Ltd.
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