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  • Savortex has achieved a Guinness World Record for its hand dryer

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    Savortex has achieved a Guinness World Record for its hand dryer

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Hand dryer achieves Guinness World Record
By editor | 15 Jun, 2012
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The Savortex hand dryer has become the first product of its type to achieve a Guinness World Records title. The Vortex 550 EcoSmart received the world record for most hands dried using 30kJ of energy, a challenge that was devised by officials  to measure the energy efficiency in hand drying. The Vortex 550 EcoSmart successfully dried four pairs of hands using 24kJ of energy, significantly lower than the target set. Typically, hand dryers use between 72 and 96kJ of power to dry just one pair of hands. 

The hand dryer uses just 550W and has a heat recycling method which reduces power consumption and GHG compared to conventional 2400W hand dryers, taking just 15 seconds to dry hands.

To achieve the energy efficiency title, Guinness World Records required that each participant started with completely wet that were only judged to be dry once moisture levels were under 40% on the whole hand. The chanllenge took place at the Savortex laboratory and manufacturing centre in Wiltshire.

Find out more at www.savortex.com and follow @Savortexuk


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