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La société Kinder-Cater GmbH de Bergheim-Niederaußem a profité de son nouveau bâtiment pour restructurer et améliorer ses mesures d'hygiène.
 

The challenge
Solution
Results
In 2016

Kinder-Cater GmbH prepares around 4,000 meals a day. The company specialises in out-of-home catering for children and young people. It supplies several day-care centres and schools in the greater Cologne area with home-cooked meals. A solution to improve hygiene standards was sought in 2016 when the company built its own new premises. Owner and managing partner Petra Gobelius decided in favour of installing the aqua version of the ProfilGate® cleaning fields, which were put into operation when the company moved into the building in January 2017.


The results: A thorough and efficient solution for cleaning and disinfecting soles and castors, which can be carried out without any additional effort. The purely mechanical mode of operation minimises susceptibility to faults.
 

The challenge
  • Hygiene measures are very costly
  • Hygiene regulations are constantly increasing
  • Risk of slipping due to disinfectant liquid from existing solutions
     
Solution
  • Installation of three ProfilGate® aqua cleaning fields
Results
  • Cleaning and disinfection of soles and castors of hand trolleys directly at the entrances 
  • Reduced effort and increased reliability when implementing applicable hygiene regulations
     

 


In 2016...

...Kinder Cater GmbH from Bergheim-Niederaussem was planning a new company building. As a processor of fresh food, the company had to prioritise reliable and simple compliance with hygiene measures. The company also wanted to be optimally equipped for the future, as the requirements in terms of hygiene standards and product safety are constantly increasing. One reason for this is ever stricter laws and regulations for internal and external inspections. However, the risk of companies losing their good reputation due to negative headlines has also increased. This is because news about poor hygiene or harmful germs in food spreads rapidly, especially via social media - even if the information is only half true or not true at all.


However, technical devices and other preventative hygiene measures often complicate company processes. For example, an airlock with a turnstile hinders the transport of larger items or the passage of trolleys. Hygiene measures are also often associated with significant additional work for employees and require them to be one hundred per cent reliable. For example, the washbasin for disinfecting hands is located several metres away from the actual access to the processing area. Or the machine for cleaning shoe soles has to be started up separately by each user. Sometimes there is also a risk of slipping due to cleaning and sanitising liquid from taps, hoses or basins under floor mats.


The right solution for Kinder-Cater GmbH was the ProfilGate® sole and tyre cleaning system in the aqua version. These are cleaning fields consisting of stainless steel trays with gratings and brush strips clamped into them. Depending on requirements, the trays can be filled with your own cleaning or disinfectant solutions. The system is permanently installed in entrance areas. 

Petra Gobelius, owner and managing partner of the company, made a conscious decision in favour of this option, as it works thoroughly and efficiently and guarantees reliable hygiene without requiring a great deal of additional time on a daily basis. Petra Köllen, the district chief veterinary officer in the Rhine-Erft district, who is also always interested in innovative technologies, provided her with expert support during the introduction.


They selected three suitable areas where the panels were installed, two larger ones at the entrances to the goods delivery and for the return of the transport boxes and a smaller panel at the staff entrance to the kitchen.
Since moving into the new building in January 2017, all employees and trolleys involved in deliveries now have to pass through the panels at the relevant entrances. 
 

"It's like entering the department stores' via doormats or driving a trolley over them."
  • Petra Gobelius
  • Owner & Managing Partner of Kinder-Cater GmbH
     

Employees also clean and sanitise their hands at washbasins.
Previously, employees had to actively wash and disinfect the soles of their shoes using conventional wall-mounted devices. The trolleys were cleaned in a separate washroom.
The new solution with the ProfilGate® cleaning fields reliably ensures perfect hygienic conditions. They work without employees having to go through an airlock, for example, or having to remember to clean the soles of shoes and castors of trolleys.
 

 

 

"Cleaning and disinfection practically run in the background without affecting movement sequences and work processes."
  • Petra Gobelius
  • Owner & Managing Partner of Kinder-Cater GmbH

Another advantage is that the solution does not require any electrical equipment or electricity. This reduces susceptibility to faults enormously. Petra Köllen also sees this aspect and the low maintenance as a particular advantage of the system, as she has often found that electrically operated hygiene sluices do not work temporarily. She also sees a specific advantage in the good integration of the cleaning fields into the daily processes.

 

 

"You can't walk past them, there's no extra work or detours for staff and goods."
 
  • Petra Köllen
  • District Chief Veterinarian in the Rhine-Erft district

The cleaning of the fields by the employees is also easy to manage. The employees who arrive first in the morning fill the fields with fresh cleaning solution. The employees who leave last in the evening drain the liquid and clean the steel trays and the gratings with the brushes.
Once a week, the gratings and brushes in the washroom are cleaned more thoroughly. All employees were able to carry out these tasks without any problems after a one-off briefing. The cleaning solution no longer needs to be mixed on site, as a ready-to-use solution is provided by the supplier Witty.
The installation of the system posed a small challenge. The trays had to be flush with the floor and the connections also had to be laid correctly to ensure that everything worked perfectly. However, HEUTE Maschinenfabrik was able to provide good support here as a manufacturer, as it is happy to recommend competent companies that already have experience with the cleaning system. 

ProfilGate® clean driving zone / clean walking zone in goods receiving area.