3 June 2015
Bonnybridge manufacturer, E&R Moffat, wins contract then decides to give kitchen and installation for free! Strathcarron is a hospice covering Central Scotland – a huge area with a population of around 400,000. It provides specialist palliative care for 1,200 terminally ill patients, most of whom stay in their own homes, with about 400 coming into the hospice ward each year and 100 people a week coming in for day care. The main kitchen does all the cooking for the ward,...
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2 June 2015
Substituting cheaper kit is undermining the catering equipment supply chain network, warns CESA CESA is raising the thorny issue of sticking to the specification. The Association says that several of its members have complained that projects they have worked on are having cheaper equipment substituted, after the specifications have been set, in order to save money and maintain margins. Often the changes are made with little or no consultation with the customer or specifier, let alone the equipment supplier. “If...
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15 May 2015
Companies considering exhibiting should contact CESA as soon as possible CESA has been successful in obtaining fifteen exhibitor grants of £1,500 each for the Host Exhibition in Milan, from the 23rd to 27th of October 2015. Host is Europe’s largest and most important catering equipment show, with over 133,000 trade visitors and 1,700-plus exhibitors.
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22 December 2014
UK catering equipment companies at the Show can get help from CESA, in the GB Pavilion Any UK catering equipment company exhibiting at Gulfood 2015 who needs any kind of assistance can get it right away, on site, from CESA. The association is appointed by UK Trade & Investment to manage the United Kingdom Pavilion. However, director Keith Warren is keen to underline CESA’s role is to help every UK company exhibiting, whether or not they are part of the...
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12 November 2014
CESA answers concerns about BIM, IFC and Revit There is a lot of discussion relating to BIM with reference to Revit files. To some, incorrectly, Revit has become synonymous with BIM and vice versa – rather like a hoover and a vacuum cleaner. “This is misleading,” says Keith Warren, director of CESA. “Rivet is one the many designer programmes that use BIM models. We have heard of Rivet files being requested, when what is actually needed is a BIM model.”
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