Eco-friendly Jelly Babies awarded

A project to upgrade manufacturing on the Jelly Babies line at Cadbury's Trebor Bassett's factory in Sheffield, which has produced savings of £60,000 a year and cut carbon dioxide emissions by 400t a year, has been awarded for its achievements.

Under the energy scheme, organised by power and automation group ABB, awards are made to end users that have made an installation or plant more energy-efficient by applying appropriate automation equipment and/or by installing high-efficiency drives.

In this instance, a total of 26 11kW motors, which had been identified as excessively powerful for the gum stove application for which they were being used, were replaced with 4kW motors controlled by variable speed drives. At the same time, the installation's standard V-belts were replaced by Gates Polychain synchronous drive belts, which can cut energy consumption by 56%. All of the new equipment was supplied by maintenance specialist Brammer.