Filta’s Gold Medal Performance

Since 1996 the Filta Group has been gaining more and more notice as a provider of top-quality service to commercial kitchens.  Most recently, the Filta Group was honored with the 2009 U.S. Commerce Associations “Best of Local Business” Award in the category of Green Business.  This is because Filta’s products and services are just great when it comes to saving their customers time and money, the Filta services are also great for the environment too.  Filta firmly believes that green business is good business and that shows in every Filta product and service offered by every Filta franchise across the world.

Therefore, it was only natural that when Vancouver was selected as the site for the 2010 Winter Olympics, Filta was called on to make sure that the food needs of millions of visiting participants and spectators could be met with the least amount of negative environmental impact and waste.  During the coming Winter Olympics, Filta representatives will be working diligently to provide the acclaimed FiltaFry cooking oil micro-filtration service to all of the deep fryers in use around BC Place where the opening ceremonies are to be held and GM Place, one of the main sites of the Olympic competitions.

For those who are not yet aware, FiltaFry operates by using a specialized micro-filtration system to purify even the most microscopic particles from cooking oil.  As a result of the process the oil remains usable for twice as long without sacrificing quality and taste.  Oil that lasts twice as long mean half as much oil used.  In this instance, that amount is truly staggering.

Initially planning estimated that around 600,000 gallons of cooking oil would be used over the course of the event.  That is enough cooking oil to completely fill an Olympic sized swimming pool.  FiltaFry hopes to drastically reduce that amount, substantially lessening the waste created by the monumental event.  Furthermore, because FiltaFry maintained fryers run more efficiently, the fryers running at BC Place and GM Place will be able to keep up with demands while using a lot less electricity.

Local Vancouver Filta franchise owner, Steven Hughes, has already expressed his excitement at getting to provide Filta services for this historic event.  Steven already has plenty of practice providing FiltaFry services for large sports venues.  He currently filters the cooking oil used in the fryers at GM Place during the National Hockey League season when it also serves as the home arena of the Vancouver Canucks.

Just like the thousands of Olympic competitors hoping to win fame and glory at the 2010 Winter Olympics, the Olympic games will be an exciting chance for Filta to show the world just what FiltaFry can do on such a massive scale.  Unlike any other Olympic hopeful, Filta does not represent just one country though.  Filta has found a home in 27 of the countries that will be competing for gold in the 2010 Winter Games.  Filta’s involvement in the 2010 Winter Olympics is a prime example of just how far Filta has come since its start as a single oil filtration business in the UK just over a decade ago.