Clean and green: Waterfront’s new warewashers

Belfast’s Waterfront will be catering for thousands of guests at a time – and they’ll create a huge amount of dirty plates, glasses and utensils.  A prestige venue like this needs to be able to rely on consistently clean supply of tableware, but it also requires a sustainable warewashing solution.  That’s why the Waterfront chose Winterhalter warewashers.

Winterhalter is at the forefront of energy, water and chemical saving technologies.  One of the key models at the Waterfront is the MTR Climate Plus.  This high-volume, multi-tank conveyor system can wash literally thousands of items per hour – yet it only needs one person to operate. 

The MTR’s wash results are outstanding.  However, what makes this machine truly different is its Climate Plus heat pump – it sucks waste heat from the machine’s interior and from the kitchen air, recycling it to heat up the incoming cold water supply.  This radical approach not only saves a massive 50%+ in terms of the machine’s energy consumption, it also improves the kitchen environment.  This is because, when the surrounding temperature goes above 25°C, it pumps clean, dry exhaust air, cooled to 18°C, back into the kitchen.

So as well as being a warewasher, it’s an air conditioner – and all the while it saves energy.

The Waterfront also has a Winterhalter MTF, which is a high-volume flight conveyor machine.  This unit is fitted with a special reverse-osmosis water treatment system that guarantees to process thousands of glasses per hour – and they come out so spotless and sparkling clean that there’s no need to polish them.  This not only saves staff time, it also significantly reduces breakages since there is so much less handling of glassware.

The third Winterhalter unit supplied to the Waterfront is a GS660 Energy model.  This specialist utensil washer has an extra high door so that large pots, pans and utensils can be washed easily.  It features an advanced heat exchanger that extracts the energy from the machine’s waste steam and waste water, using it to heat up the cold fill and slashing energy consumption dramatically.

“The new Waterfront is an amazing project, with a real commitment to sustainability,” says Stephen Kinkead, managing director of Winterhalter UK.  “We’re proud and delighted that they chose Winterhalter to meet their warewashing requirements.”