At Addfield Cremations, we are always interested in the return on investment (ROI) of a facility. It may seem an unusual, or even uncomfortable subject, but ensuring a business is built on a solid foundation is key to its long-term operational success. So, how does return on investment translate in the context of human cremation?

A typical direct ‘cremation service’ will charge around £1,000 per cremation. For a typical 13.1-stone (111 kg) coffin and body, this means an Addfield Aurora fully electric, mercury-abated cremation system—operating on the premise of five cremations per day, five working days per week, across 48 weeks per year—would achieve payback in less than one year. This includes all overheads, such as utilities, staff, servicing, annual emissions testing, and major replacement visits, on an ‘all-inclusive’ basis.

This return-on-investment model makes the human cremation field a very interesting subject from an investment perspective.

At Addfield, we believe in providing our customers with ‘ultimate peace of mind’, and this is exactly what our ‘all-inclusive’ service option delivers:

Service Visits:

• 2x Site Visits/year (2men 2.5days/visit) – Cremators / WHR / FGT
• 2x CEMS Visits/year (1man 0.5day/visit) – SCC O2/Stack CO/O2/Dust
• 2x Call-out visits/year (2men 1day/visit)

Spares (Consumables):

• Yearly Consumable Spares List – per Electric cremator
• Yearly Consumable Spares List – per WHR / Abatement / CEMS System
• Site Emission Testing (site supervised by APL) (site scaffolding provided)
• Reagent Supply / Disposal / Recycling
• Urea (40% Solution)
• AddcleanTM – Flue gas cleaning reagent
• Air Pollution Control Residue (APCr) Disposal & Recycling

Planned Preventative Replacement (PPM)

In addition to the above service visits, the Addfield brand has been around for 40 years and in this period we’ve learned how our equipment wears over the extended periods of time. In addition to the above servicing requirement the equipment will require:

• Major servicing of componets (Typically every three years)
• Replacement Componmets (Typically every five years)
• Refractory Maintenance, replacement in whole but also in zones (such as the hearth, walls, roof)
• Major replacement of componets every 10-15 years

The modular design of Addfield cremation machines enables efficient maintenance and servicing. This ensures consistent operational performance and reliability, helping to maximise your return on investment over the long term.

Reliability Isn’t Optional — It’s the Key to Your ROI

Your cremation site could be generating you a year 1 revenue of £1.2m with an equipment lifetime of circa 20 years. Therefore the importance of reliable cremation equipment is critical for your ROI.

Further more the equipment has an energy recovery benifit. A system can recover heat as hot water for space heating, which if used to replace a 150kW rated CHB boiler could save a further £40,000 per year based on a 5 month seasonal heating period.

Should you be thinking of setting up a human crematorium as a business prospect then please don’t hesitate to get in touch and we can provide a detailed proposal to support the above information for your specific site and operational basis to give you your bespoke ROI prediction.