Industry Excellence
Feel safe with us In this issue of Building & Industry Today, we are delighted to select Christeyns for our Industry Excellence Award.
It has been an excellent twelve months for Warringtonbased company: Food Hygiene, part of Christeyns UK. The company won the coveted ‘Training Company of the Year’ at the SOFHT Awards in 2023. The annual awards, now in their 19th year, recognise and celebrate excellence within the food industry and its associated industries. Christeyns Food Hygiene excel in designing hygiene chemicals and equipment and for the purpose of this award, have now been recognised by the industry for its cutting-edge educational platform for the training of hygiene professionals. Food hygiene is part of the fundamental fabric of Christeyn’s operations, ensuring absolute food and drink safety across all sectors of the business.
insight into this food hygiene Powerhouse, “Whilst our revenue comes from the supply and sale of detergents, disinfectants and specialty hygiene products; our main role is to support the food safety management and hygiene systems in our customer’s operations.”
The UK food hygiene division was established in 1989 by the then-owner John Bell, whilst the global European parent company was founded way back in 1946 in Gent, Belgium by Joseph Christeyns. Christeyns Food Hygiene provides innovative hygiene solutions and specialised technical support for the food and beverage industry, ensuring compliance with procedures, legislation and industry codes of practice. The company supplies and supports the food, dairy and beverage sector from the Warrington headquarters. We spoke to Chris Bayliss: UK Sales Director for more
“We see ourselves as an integral part of their efforts to produce a safe, wholesome product with effective controls on contaminants that could result in consumer harm. Our services include all aspects of hygiene support from training and education, cleaning method statement production, engineering solutions to enable the effective storage and application of our products to the provision of personal protective equipment, cleaning cost optimisation (especially for CIP regimes using our unique InSite-CIP software) and fault-finding/inspection when the inevitable challenges occur in a fast-moving sector.” “We have our food hygiene headquarters in Warrington as previously mentioned; however, we also have our
Professional Hygiene division in Whalley Bridge and our laundry operation in Bradford. Across Europe we have a presence in all EU member states as well as both the USA, South America, North Africa and Australasia.” “With our field team drawn from industry, we truly understand the challenges that our customers face day-to-day and can devise practical, realistic solutions that help to resolve food safety and product integrity issues. This is evident from our training that has been developed by experts in the field, our engineering solutions which deliver the detergents and disinfectants to precisely where they need to be used and our hygiene support systems that have been developed around both the needs of the industry and the requirements of food safety third-party standards such as BRCGS, ISO 2200 and GFSI.” “We are the most highly connected supplier in our sector with representation at BFBi, Campden BRI, SOFHT, The Chilled Food Association and Anaphylaxis UK. This involvement in industry stake-holder groups enables us to not only add our expertise back into
Chris Bayliss, UK Sales Director at Christeyns Food Hygiene
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