Zip claims to have ‘invented’ instant boiling water in the 1980s, and says it ‘maintains world leadership’ in boiling water provision for hot drinks in the workplace.
The company says its strong position has been earned ‘via continual product development’. Zip Industries chairman, Michael Crouch AO, said recently: “We get such a great kick out of innovating; we are always thinking what can we do, and how can we do it better.” One outcome is the introduction of energy-saving products that Zip says reduce the operating costs of instant boiling water systems by ‘more than fifty per cent over earlier models’. Another is ‘the introduction of healthier inbuilt water filtration 25 times finer than that of the past, filtering out chemical tastes and odours as never before to provide crystal-clear, better-tasting water, boiling, or chilled’. Zip will demonstrate its ‘highly energyefficient’ Hydroboil Plus boiling, and new HydroTap, boiling, chilled, and sparkling, filtered water systems, and Zip Inline – ‘an energy-efficient solution to providing handwash facilities, without the dangers of potential scalding or Legionella’.
