Case Studies

Choosing Food Prep Area Fly Screens

Most of what we make goes into buildings you’d recognise. Below is a sector-by-sector look at where our screens are actually installed, what was used, and which of these jobs we’ve written up in more detail.

If your sector isn’t here, it probably still applies — the openings in a brewery aren’t very different from the openings in a bakery. Email sales@premier-env.co.uk and we’ll tell you what we’ve done that’s closest to your situation.

Food production and manufacturing

The sector we’re asked about most, and the one with the clearest regulatory driver behind it. Screens here have to come out for cleaning without a fight, and survive being taken out weekly.

  • HJ Heinz, Wigan — fly screens supplied to the production factory.
  • Bakery, Wakefieldroller fly screen system installed throughout.
  • Production areashorizontal sliding screens for openings that need to stay part-usable while screened.
  • Food production areas — insect mesh supplied by the roll for in-house fabrication.
  • Commercial kitchenshinged panel screens, the type that lifts out and goes in the sink.

If you’re working to a hygiene inspection, our food hygiene compliance page sets out what the regulations actually require and what an inspector looks at.

Retail and supermarkets

High-traffic doorways where the screen has to work without slowing anyone down, and back-of-house areas where food is handled.

Healthcare

Sites where the screens are part of an infection-control conversation rather than just a comfort one, and where installation has to work around a live building.

  • Spire Hospitals — supply and installation of fly screen systems.
  • NHS — insect screens supplied to NHS sites.

Utilities and water treatment

Industrial sites, often remote, where the insect load is high and access for maintenance is occasional. Screens have to be right first time.

  • United Utilities — fly screens supplied. Written up in full.
  • Water treatment plantsroller fly screen system installed across multiple sites.
  • Air handling — insect mesh panels supplied and installed to an air conditioning system.

Education and student accommodation

Rooms occupied by people who can’t be relied on to shut a window, in buildings where opening windows is the only ventilation there is.

  • Kingston University — a sliding fly screen system, installed to improve student comfort. Our most detailed write-up.
  • London halls of residence — sliding fly screens throughout.

Marine, defence and transport

Environments where a screen gets treated roughly and replaced rarely, so specification matters more than price.

Heritage and private clients

Jobs where the screen has to be effectively invisible, or where the opening isn’t a standard shape and nothing off a shelf will fit it.

What these jobs have in common

Almost all of them started the same way: someone measured their own openings, sent us the sizes, and we made the screens to fit. We supply nationwide from our own UK factory, most customers fit the screens themselves or hand them to their maintenance contractor, and commercial customers can order supply and install instead.

The other thing they have in common is that we’re still supplying most of them. Replacement mesh, strips, chain and door closers are all stocked, which matters more on a ten-year-old installation than it does on day one.

Talk to us about your site

Send a list of openings with rough sizes, or photographs, or an inspector’s report — whichever you have. We’ll come back with a line-by-line price and tell you honestly if something on the list doesn’t need screening.

Email sales@premier-env.co.uk. You can also see the full list of clients we’ve supplied.