Report on the remanufacturing of refrigerated display cabinets

©Centre for Remanufacturing & Reuse 2009
The reliability and lifetime of high quality (UK manufactured) RDCs has
been increasing since 1998 due to changes in technology. Although we
estimate that the replacement level of stock will continue at the level of
20% it is more likely that with increased lifetime and a gradual slow down
in the growth of the RDC market the level of replacement will fall from a
level of 15% in 2008 to 10% in 2015.
The increase in the number of remote RDCs in use is likely to slow in the
coming years and, after 2015, the number of units in use will remain
constant i.e. the market for new cabinets, after 2015 will be solely to
replace EoL cabinets. We estimate that this scenario will result in a slow
down in the increase in the number of RDCs in use from its present level
of 7% per annum to approximately 2% per annum in 2015.
The total stock of integral RDCs is higher than that of remote RDCs but
there should still be a slowing of growth over the next 10 years. This
growth will not diminish as much as for remote RDCs. The estimate is
that this slowdown in growth will reflect in a decrease in the percentage of
new units from its current level of 6% per annum to approximately 4% per
annum in 2015.
Using these assumptions gives us the following overview of the RDC market
(Table 3.2, Figure 3.1 and Figure 3.2):
Year
Table 3.2: Estimated market for Total RDCs 1999-2015
Total
stock
(units)
Estimated old
stock to be
renewed or
refurbished
(units)
Stock
refurbished
each year
(units)
New stock
purchased to
replace old
stock
(units)
Additional
new units to
increase
capacity
(units)
1999 360,590 69,071 6,907 62,164 23,590
2000 385,831 73,906 7,391 66,515 25,241
2001 412,839 79,079 6,326 72,753 27,008
2002 441,738 84,614 6,769 77,845 28,899
2003 472,660 90,537 7,243 83,294 30,922
2004 505,746 96,875 7,750 89,125 33,086
2005 537,882 103,656 6,219 97,437 32,136
2006 568,238 98,543 9,854 88,689 30,357
2007 598,309 86,443 8,644 77,799 30,070
2008 630,023 91,002 10,920 80,082 31,714
2009e 663,472 95,809 11,497 84,312 33,449
2010e 692,119 100,539 12,065 88,474 28,647
2011e 722,063 83,893 10,067 73,826 29,944
2012e 753,364 87,512 10,501 77,010 31,301
2013e 778,553 75,831 9,100 66,731 25,189
2014e 804,650 78,360 11,754 66,606 26,097
2015e 831,690 80,980 12,147 68,833 27,040
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