Commercial refrigeration

Super X24, a Mexican retailer with more than 100 convenience stores across Veracruz, plans to convert all of them to lower GWP refrigerant R449A.

The ammonia training facility is hosting a year-around trade show for vendors and contractors for marketing and training purposes.

R290 kills two birds with one stone for the OEM – DOE efficiency requirements and EPA delisting of HFCs.

The company is seeking to provide sustainable cold chain solutions across the food production cycle, from harvest to distribution.

Supermarket owners and operators across Europe are getting to grips with the implications of new EU Regulations on so-called F-Gases (No. 517/2014), which include common refrigerants used in store refrigeration and air conditioning systems. We offer an overview of the regulations and what supermarkets should be doing to safeguard their businesses, provided by leading compressor manufacturer Bitzer.

Retailers are beginning to offer hydrocarbon-cooled pick-up stations for food purchased online.

Kaplanlar Cooling is entering the natural-refrigerant market with its ‘CORE’ transcritical CO₂ solution.

Austrian company AHT already has over one million propane-based food and beverage retail cabinets in operation worldwide.

Michael Nagler, business development manager for CO₂ applications at GEA, believes that new regulation in Germany will drive the market.

Alessandro Franchin, export area manager at SCM Frigo, reports growing demand in southern European markets as CO₂ refrigeration technology develops.

Whatever the climate, the CO₂OLtechEvoTM offers substantial energy savings for supermarkets, warehouses and process cooling.

Retrofitting the cooling system at grocery delivery service Verscentrum Nederland’s (VCN) facility led to huge energy savings in winter.

Carrier’s latest transcritical CO₂ refrigeration system – CO₂OLtech Evo – features the newly developed adjustable modulating vapour ejector technology.

SANDEN Environmental Solutions is integrating CO₂ refrigeration units into cabinets built by Hauser, Arneg and TEKO.

Italian multinational CAREL believes natural refrigerants will continue to play a central role in making the European food retail sector more sustainable.

Swiss OEM’s R290 and R600a refrigerators and freezers meet new ENERGY Star 4.0 efficiency standard.

Multinational beverage giants like Unilever, Pepsi and the Coca-Cola Company are driving Ugur to supply propane cabinets throughout the world.

But the company is finding slow uptake in the U.S. as customers don’t see a sufficient number of trained propane technicians.

Italian water vending machine and water cooler manufacturer Blupura expects to grow by 43% in 2017 – largely thanks to its commitment to future-proof natural refrigerants.

The vending division of Sanden Europe is pushing its climate-friendly products to customers at Vending Paris this week.