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  • World's biggest store

    The so-called world’s biggest cold store – 60-m long, 140-m wide and 36-m high – was installed in Catalonia, Spain, by Aislamientos Aiconsa.

    • Publication date : 2011/10/03
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  • Red House cold store

    Britain's Culture Department has decided to give listed building protection to the Red House cold store, which is part of the former fish market in London's historic Smithfield Market. The Red House is thought to be the oldest cold store in...

    • Publication date : 2005/07/19
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  • European cold Store benchmarking study

    The European division of the Global Cold Chain Alliance (GCCA) is carrying out a benchmarking study for the European public refrigerated warehouse industry, focusing on facility and equipment data such as capacity, order picking, handling...

    • Publication date : 2011/02/04
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  • First Chinese safety standard for cold stores

    The codes should come into force in December this year

    • Publication date : 2012/08/22
    • Subjects: Regulation
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  • UK: Waitrose installs HFO chillers in store

    Waitrose, the English supermarket chain, is testing chillers using HFO-1234ze refrigerant at its supermarket in Bromley, near London, UK.

    • Publication date : 2012/02/17
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  • New Zealand: lessons learnt from cold store explosion

    A recent coronial inquest into the explosion in April 2008 of a cold store in Tamahere, New Zealand, following a hydrocarbon refrigerant leak, has revealed a number of deficiencies.

    • Publication date : 2011/12/30
    • Subjects: Regulation
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  • Eight ways to save energy in cold stores

    Researchers from Enviros Consulting analysed cold storage at 13 frozen food manufacturers and cold store operators in UK for the report "Improving the energy efficiency of the cold chain" released by the British Frozen Food Federation (BFFF)....

    • Publication date : 2009/08/13
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  • Find out how efficient your cold store is!

    Find out how efficient your cold store is!Perhaps you know how much energy your cold store uses each year, but have you ever wondered how your cold store ranks against other similar cold stores? Maybe you are throwing away money and wasting...

    • Publication date : 2011/12/08
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  • Largest American rooftop solar installation for cold store

    The largest rooftop solar installation in North America on the roof of Gloucester Marine Terminal’s refrigerated warehouse is to be completed this autumn.

    • Publication date : 2011/09/15
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  • Tesco opens its first CO2 refrigeration store in China

    Tesco recently opened its 97th store in China, yet this is the first to feature a CO2 refrigeration system.

    • Publication date : 2011/12/30
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  • Trane announces contract with Carrefour for 38 stores in Asia

    On February 9, 2005, Trane, a global provider of indoor comfort systems and comprehensive facility solutions, won a competitive bid process with Carrefour, the world's second largest retailer, for 38 new stores in China, Indonesia, Thailand,...

    • Publication date : 2005/03/15
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  • Retail stores : CO2 emissions reduction commitments in UK and France

    In the UK, a BRC report reveals that in their commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50% in 2013 (relative to floor space) compared to 2005, retailers have so far achieved reductions of 37% per m2 (25% in absolute terms).

    • Publication date : 2012/07/26
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  • Briefs: Coldstore Engineering in New Zealand

    Hot off the press: a new set of guidelines for the New Zealand coldstore industry. The 67-page Coldstore Engineering in New Zealand document is published by the Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand (IPENZ) Coldstore Working Party....

    • Publication date : 2009/08/13
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  • Cold stores in India

    According to a report published in October 2013, Indian cold stores account for about 16% of the total warehousing industry. Estimated worth: USD 1500 billion.

    • Publication date : 2014/10/22
    • Subjects: Figures, economy
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  • Lighting systems for cold stores

    Various types of lighting exist for below 0°C temperature cold stores including mercury vapor (MV) lamps, high pressure sodium (HPS) and light-emitting diodes (LED).

    • Publication date : 2014/03/28
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  • Cold storage conditions for fruits and vegetables

    Practical recommendations for the cold storage of over 200 cultivars of fruits, vegetables and herbs (storage temperatures, relative humidity, storage time, controlled atmosphere...

    • Last update : 2023/01/16
    • Langues : French, English
    • Themes : Fruit, Vegetables
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    Global cold storage capacity

    This table presents the cold storage capacity in about 50 countries, based on data from the Global Cold Chain Alliance (GCCA).

    • Last update : 2021/12/06
    • Langues : English
    • Themes : Refrigerated storage: economics and statistics
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  • Ice cream manufacturing, environmental impact and market data

    From a physico-chemical point of view, ice cream is a complex, frozen multiphase mixture. The manufacturing process includes several stages of freezing which are described in this...

    • Last update : 2023/06/30
    • Langues : French, English
    • Themes : Ice creams
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  • Liquefied Natural Gas: production process and cold energy recovery

    Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is natural gas that has been cooled to about -160 °C and turned into a liquid to facilitate transportation and storage. A typical LNG supply chain...

    • Last update : 2023/06/23
    • Langues : French, English
    • Themes : LNG and LPG
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  • Hydrocarbon refrigerants

    Hydrocarbons such as R290 (propane), R600a (isobutane) or R1270 (propene/propylene) are low GWP non-toxic natural refrigerants with excellent thermodynamic properties. They offer an...

    • Last update : 2022/06/22
    • Langues : French, English
    • Themes : Hydrocarbons, Containment, refrigerant charge reduction
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  • Cryogenic nitrogen in the food and beverage industry

    The adoption of cryogenic processes in the food and beverage industry is predominantly driven by liquid nitrogen (LIN), and it is the preferred candidate for food chilling and...

    • Last update : 2023/11/07
    • Langues : French, English
    • Themes : Freezing of foodstuffs
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  • Cryogenics in the pharmaceutical industry: drug design and bioavailability improvement

    Research activities in the pharmaceutical sector focus primarily on developing novel drug formulations which can elicit the desired response upon being administered to the patient...

    • Last update : 2023/03/10
    • Langues : French, English
    • Themes : Freeze-drying in biology and medicine, Cryobiology, cryomedicine: general information
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  • Additive manufacturing of heat exchangers

    In the refrigeration industry, additive manufacturing (colloquially referred to as “3D printing”) makes it possible to fabricate novel, complex and potentially more energy efficient...

    • Last update : 2022/09/07
    • Langues : French, English
    • Themes : Evaporators, condensers and other heat exchangers
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  • Additive manufacturing of regenerators for caloric cooling

    In many areas of engineering, additive manufacturing allows the production of complex and multifunctional products that could not be manufactured using traditional methods. In the...

    • Last update : 2022/09/16
    • Langues : French, English
    • Themes : Caloric cooling (magnetocaloric, electrocaloric, elastocaloric and barocaloric cooling)
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