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Product design
Hubbard aims to be at the forefront of product design and is continually developing products in order to:
- Maximise efficiencies
- Ensure low whole of life costs
- Lessen impact on the environment
- Improve product functionality and user-friendliness
At Hubbard we understand that Product Design forms an integral part of the wider manufacturing process and that by continually looking for better solutions for our customers we will maintain our focus on providing quality products and our position as leaders in the design and manufacture of refrigeration systems.
Hubbard is currently investing in a programme of Research and Development for Clean Technology - developing products that deliver value using limited or zero non-renewable resources and which create significantly less waste than conventional offerings.
Working in collaboration with other European suppliers, UK high street retailers and drawing on academic skills from Universities in the UK and abroad, to develop unique solutions we have set ourselves strenuous targets to be met by 2012.
Hubbard Products, has been selected by BSI, the UK standards body, to be a representative for the UK transport refrigeration manufacturing industry on a technical committee of CEN, the European Committee for Standardisation.
CEN has agreed to produce a new European Standard that will obviate the ATP agreement, which has existed as a European Standard for over 25 years for the performance of insulated and refrigerated vehicles carrying foodstuffs across international borders.
The ATP standard has been maintained by a technical committee made up of representatives from all the signatory nations; it meets annually. Each nation maintains it's own technical committee from which an international representative is drawn; these too, usually meet only once a year. There are a number of issues linked to improved technology and increased legislation that ATP does not address, and an up to date, harmonised European Standard is keenly sought by many EU member nations.
The new standard is aimed at setting minimum performance targets and test protocols for refrigeration units on road transport vehicles and, in so doing, addressing the perceived shortcomings of ATP.
We believe that what we achieve now will have a significant legacy not only for Hubbard, but for the refrigeration industry in general.
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Hubbard Products Ltd, Hillview, Church Road,
Otley, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP6 9NP
Registered in England No. 6217134
