Hotel/Restaurant/Café

HoReCa is a syllabic abbreviation of the words Hotel/Restaurant/Café. The HoReCa industry uses gas in various applications. A few are:
 

Water Heating:  Hotels, restaurants and cafés require a reliable source of energy for their hot water for showers, dish-washing, spas, swimming pools etc. Gas Water heaters heat cold water above their initial temperature using gas, which is then stored at the desired temperature until the hot water is needed. Apart from the traditional tank-style water heaters, there are tankless continuous flow systems that provide hot water on demand, at a constant flow to induce energy savings. No stored water means significantly reduced risks of bacteria.
 

Temperature Control: LPG is used for gas fireplaces or gas log fires. LPG autonomous heaters are ideal to provide warmth for smaller rooms and spaces where there is no central heating. Central heating systems are also fueled by LPG, and more recently more modern and efficient technologies like Gas Heat Pumps (GHPs) and Combined Heat and Power units (CHP) are increasingly being use.
 

Laundry Facilities: Gas is used to help ensure fresh linen, table cloths etc.
 

Mobile Catering: Mobile catering is the business of selling prepared food from some sort of vehicle. It is a feature of urban culture in many countries. Mobile catering can be performed using food trucks, trailers, carts and food stands. Since LPG cylinders are readily available and easier to transport, they are the preferred source of fuel for cooking.
 

Backup Generators: Using LPG to fuel backup generators is efficient as they do not go off like diesel and petrol. This is essential for hotels who operate in areas with power issues.
 

Cooking:  There are a lot of fuels available in the market which can help cook meals. However, they can turn out to be costly and polluting. Using LPG:-
Gives better control
Helps to cook faster
Keeps the temperature of the kitchen low
Is safe
Pocket and environmental friendly
 

Packaging Food packaging provides protection, tampering resistance along with special physical or chemical requirements. It bear nutrition facts and other information about food. There are several packaging processes.
 

Blister Packaging: Blister pack is a term for several types of pre-formed plastic packaging used for small consumer goods, foods, and for pharmaceuticals. Immediately after filling the product, it needs to be sealed. In the case of pharmaceuticals, aluminium foil is used. The medicine and aluminium foil are heat-sealed using gas by the mutually parallel heat-sealing roller and the anilox roller under the action of a certain temperature and pressure. The time is extremely short when the material passes through two rolls, so as to obtain a qualified heat-sealing effect
 

Heat Sealing: Heat sealing is the process of sealing one thermoplastic to another similar thermoplastic using heat and pressure. A gas fired heat sealer machine is used to seal products, packaging and other thermoplastic materials. The most common method of heat sealing utilizes a sealing bar to apply heat to a specific area to seal or weld the thermoplastics together. Heat sealing is used for many applications, including heat seal connectors, thermally activated adhesives, film media, plastic ports or foil sealing.
 

Cartoning:  A cartoning machine is a packaging machine that forms  Carton packaging gives products a long shelf life due to the three special layers (the plastic layer, the paper board and the foil). Once the printing is done on the paper board a worker feeds it into a lamination machine which joins it to a plastic and foil layer. A gas flame heat treats the paper board to ensure adhesion to the plastic layer. The laminator extrudes liquefied plastic between roll of aluminium and the heated paperboard. The rollers squeeze all the layers together, thus, forming the carton. Gas fired boilers are also used to produce steam used in sterilization prior to filling the cartons (especially done for food and pharmaceutical industry).
 

Shrink Wrapping:  Shrink wrap is a material made up of polymer plastic film. When heat is applied, it shrinks tightly over whatever it is covering. Heat can be applied with via gas fired heat guns or products along with the sterilized shrink film can pass through a tunnel heated using gas on a conveyor.