Nécrologie : Jozef Mlynarczyk

L'IIF exprime ses sincères condoléances à la famille et aux proches de Jozef Mlynarczyk, décédé le 19 mars 2018.

Joseph Mlynarczyk was intially a member of IIR Commission D1 on Refrigerated Storage (1968-1975), and later became the Vice-President (1976-1979) and then President (1979-1987). He was then the President of the Section D, Storage and Transport (1987-1995).


He was also the Polish delegate on the Executive Committee (1982-2000). In recognition of his numerous contributions, he received the IIR Honorary Member Award in 1995.

The IIR would like to express its sincere condolences to the family and relatives of Jozef Mlynarczyk, who died on March 19, 2018.

You can consult two papers on cold storage from Joseph Mlynarczyk that were presented during IIR International Congresses of Refrigeration in Vienna (1987) and Paris (1983), which are  available in the Fridoc database:


- The investment cost, energy use and weight and quality losses in low temperature cold storage.

- Possibility of limiting the heat balance: improving storage economy.