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ISSN 2412-7779
REGULARS
CONTENTS
VOL. 04 - NO. 01 | OCTOBER 2018
INCORPORATING COLD CHAIN
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REGULARS INTERNATIONAL NEWS PROJECTS
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Editor’s column
36 Products
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Word search 9
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GoChill: pushing the boundaries beyond ‘just a cold store’
28 CO 2 trans-critical installation – a processing plant first
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Sassda boosts stainless steel trade with Kenya and
Tanzania
Beijer Ref and Bitzer renew partnership
New project to reduce wasted harvest in SA
Carel celebrates women in HVAC&R
23.4 million m 2 of retail space for SA
Global cruise industry embraces trans-critical CO 2 tech
One step closer to increasing the hydrocarbon charge
limit
ASHRAE launches South African chapter
EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS
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All set for “The biggest Chillventa of all times”
17 OTTC stammtisch brings artisans together
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A decade of Cool Logistics
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Upcoming TOC to discuss modernising supply chains
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EDITOR’S COLUMN
s I sit here completing yet by now, I’ve met so many people in Daniela Heinkel, Chillventa exhibition
another Schengen visa our industry (locally and abroad), that director at NürnbergMesse, on page 15
application form for the it’s more a case of looking forward to to see just what you can expect from
catching up with ‘old friends’. Chillventa 2018.
upcoming Chillventa show in
Nuremberg, I cannot believe how time
The people are what makes Chillventa
But it’s not just overseas that exciting
has flown. It feels impossible to imagine the incredible experience it is. Sure, the things are happening. My inbox is
that two years have passed by so quickly products and the exhibition are beyond overflowing with amazing refrigeration
since jetting off to the 2016 edition of the impressive (to the point of short-circuiting projects and, despite a tough economic
show. (Visa applications are still a painful your brain with all the technological climate, the industry’s resilience is
process, though.) advances), but it is the gathering of the shining through. Check out the article
global HVAC&R family that really makes on GoChill’s new cold store facility in
the trip so memorable. KwaZulu-Natal, which offers a ‘one-stop
This will be my third visit to this massive
industry exhibition and I’m no less excited
than that first time I got on a plane to
It’s amazing to see what is happening
shop’ for fresh fruit exporters through
Germany. Though I think I’m much less in the rest of the world and to realise ambient-, chilled-, and cold sterilisation
stressed out and anxious than in 2014 that we’re not actually that far behind. I solutions (page 22). John Ackermann also
when I got on that plane for the first cannot wait for another Chillventa and international trip of my life. I got lost so compiled an interesting piece on the CO 2
everything that comes with it. Watch refrigeration installation for the new BM
many times then as I tried to decipher the this space; I’ll have a lot to say about it Food Manufacturers plant in Montague
German street names on the worn map I in future editions. If you’re going as well, Gardens. Read more on page 28.
carried around with me everywhere. drop me an email and we can catch up
Speaking of big news, ASHRAE has
that side. Particularly if you know of any finally launched a South African chapter,
step one, to get a German SIM card other events that could be of interest. opening up a whole new world in terms
and just let Google Maps do all the work My Chillventa calendar is filling up fast of the global industry network and
for me. Yet, one can never completely and it’s gearing up to be an epic show. access to knowledge (page 12).
shake the feeling of being lost when It seems to be the general forecast for you are alone in a foreign country. But this year. Check out the interview with
I’ve learnt a lot since then. Mainly,
That’s what is happening in my world;
what’s happening in yours?
CLA
COLD LINK AFRICA • October 2018
Ilana Koegelenberg
Editor | [email protected]
www.coldlinkafrica.co.za
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