Air Conditioning Hire Specialist, Watkins Hire, has won a five year contract to supply and install air conditioning for The International Cheese Awards – Nantwich after impressing the show’s organisers with the installation at the 2009 event.
Overhead ducting providing air conditioning inside the marquee
A high profile event attracting 28,000 visitors, The International Cheese Awards combines a trade show with a public event, with 2,761 producers exhibiting their cheeses this year. The perishable nature of the exhibits has presented problems for the show organisers in previous years and for the past three years they have used three separate air conditioning hire providers in an attempt to find a robust solution that would meet any climactic conditions. After a proactive approach from Watkins Hire, the show organisers accepted the hire company’s quote and have been so impressed with the result that they have signed Watkins Hire up for the next five years.
“Keeping the marquee cool throughout the Show is absolutely critical to the success of the event,” explains Show Director, Roger Mills. “The Watkins Hire team was not only able to specify and provide the equipment that we needed to do the job effectively throughout the event. They also provided us with excellent service levels and competitive pricing. The system was unobtrusive and operated at very low levels of noise. We have been so impressed that we have been happy to commit to using Watkins Hire as our temporary air conditioning supplier for the next five years.”
Watkins Hire provided three 500kW rental chillers to keep the 110m x 40m marquee at the required temperature along with seven 150kW air handling units, all sited outside the marquee. The company installed fourteen 40m long ducting tubes across the width of the marquee, distributing the air conditioned air equally across the marquee. In addition, Watkins Hire installed twelve 20kW indoor air handling units in the hospitality tent, specifying a low noise, unobtrusive unit to provide the required ambient temperature. The Hire specialist also provided an on-site engineer for three days to ensure that the system ran efficiently throughout the show and its build up.
“Our attention to detail and emphasis on customer service enabled us to provide a temporary air conditioning service that surpassed that offered by our competitors in previous years,” comments Alan Ferguson from Watkins Hire. “We are delighted to have secured a long-term relationship with the show and look forward to next year’s event.”
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About Watkins Hire
Watkins Hire Ltd were formed in 1860, when British industry was dominating the globe, the Watkins Group of companies were established; As Europe’s largest independent specialist temperature control rental company and still independent and 149 years later remains in the Watkins Family, Watkins Hire deliver a wide range of temperature control rental solutions to the events industry , from temporary air conditioning and temporary heating solutions for conferences, exhibitions, climate control to major events, sporting, temporary structures, marquees, product launches, stages, music, film sets, TV studios & temporary ice rinks; their hire fleet consists of portable air conditioning units from 2kW to 10kW, portable chillers ranging from 30kw to 750kW, air handling units, portable heaters and a wide range of portable electric heaters, heating boilers from 22kW to 3000kW.
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