Innovation centre of excellence

It is a collaboration between Oxford company GreenTeck Global – innovators in alternative green technologies, providing sustainable, energy-conscious and cost-effective solutions that will make a real difference to the environment – and commercial kitchen experts CK Direct.

The Centre is based at CK Direct’s factory and showroom near A1(M) in Peterborough and has a fully-fitted and fully-operational commercial kitchen so visitors can see the equipment in situ and in operation. 

In addition to the actual cookers and fryers, equipment on display includes an extraction system incorporating GreenTeck Global’s AirTeck trioxygen unit. It uses ultra-violet light to produce ozone (O₃) that is then introduced into the ducting system for deodorising and degreasing. 

A second air handling system is designed to cool, degrease and deodorise on premises where it is not possible to vent to the outside atmosphere.

A third air-handling system draws air up through one set of fan-tiles in the ceiling while it is replaced with cool, clean air from the ceiling void through another set of tiles.  

AquaTeck is another GreenTeck Global sanitising / sterilising / cleaning system for contact use on floors and skirting (including carpets), work-surfaces, door-handles, hand-rails and banisters, call and lift buttons.

Other equipment on display includes Hygeia – an activated oxygen sanitising spray bottle, Solar Assisted Heat Panels (SAHP), and an Eco-Safe Digestor – simple technology that eliminates food waste, onsite, by aerobic digestion.  

CEO and founder of GreenTeck Global David Thurston said: “We are really excited about the concept of the Innovation Centre. For the first time we think we have gone beyond offering just extraction systems or deodorising solutions and are able to offer a genuine one-stop-shop all under one roof. And that it will be of interest to a wide range of industries and sectors: from catering to care homes, hotels to hospitality, and from universities to food manufacturing and processing.”