EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS
INCORPORATING COLD CHAIN
South Africans at the Bitzer event , from left : Graham Conway and Greyling Wentzel ( Phoenix Racks ); Juan- Pierre van Zyl ( SAN Group ); Bernhard Blaeser ( Bitzer ); and Christal Smith .
Merrick and Christal Smith ( Pro-Active Refrigeration ) at the Bitzer event .
Many familiar faces at the Bitzer event , from left : Torsten Steinborn ( Bitzer Kühlmaschinenbau SA ); Wynand Groenewald and Shaun Hadfield ( both from Commercial Refrigeration Services ); as well as Richard and Chris Drinkrow ( both from Mainstream Refrigeration ).
Seen at Chillventa
Isolde Döbelin and guests at the Bitzer event .
The international A-Gas team , from left : Andrew Ambrose ( Australia ), Jon Masters ( UK ), Ian Podmore ( UK ), Johnny Scott ( South Africa ), Chris Phillips ( South Africa ), and Michael Labacher ( South Africa ).
Contractors from Sweden , from left : Magnus Sellin ( Frigotech ), Kjell Svensson ( SANAS Corporation ), and Jesper Wiberg ( Frigotech ). The cooling of computer service centres was at the core of the business of Frigotech and after joining with Svensson and his many years of experience in supermarket refrigeration , Frigotech now offers a full range of services , contracting and installations of refrigeration , heating and computer room environmental control .
At the eurammon lunch , Monica Witt ( second from left ) was applauded and thanked by the newly elected president , Bernd Kaltenbrunner ( second from right ), for her leadership and innovation during her term as president .
From left : Klaas Jonker ( Australia ), Prof Gratiela Tarlea ( Romania ) and Rene van Gerwen ( The Netherlands ) at the eurammon lunch .
At the Bitzer stand , from left : Bernard Blaeser ( Bitzer South Africa ), Richard and Christopher Drinkrow ( both of Mainstream Refrigeration ) and Torsten Steinborn ( Bitzer South Africa ).
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Ian Armstrong of Henry ( right ) with John Ackermann of Cold Link Africa .
Chillventa award The Chillventa Award was presented for the first time in 2016 , with NürnbergMesse and Bauverlag making the presentations to the lucky winners . The Chillventa Award was presented in four categories : large-scale refrigeration , commercial refrigeration , air-conditioning systems and heat pumps .
The jury considered a range of aspects when assessing submissions : true to Chillventa ’ s motto of ‘ connecting experts ’, planning and co-operation on a partnership basis by the parties involved in the project came first , followed by ‘ implementation of the planning instruction ’, ‘ functionality ’, ‘ depth of innovation ’ and ‘ cost-effectiveness and operation ’. The winners in each category had to score points in each of these areas .
The jury met in September and agreed that achieving
Chris Phillips was recently appointed as financial manager of A-Gas South Africa .
outstanding planning but just 8 / 15 for technology would have as little chance of winning as a technically refined project that lacked any obvious sign of special cooperation based on partnership . The submissions that ultimately won the awards clearly involved outstanding refrigeration designs and projects , both with and without the use of natural refrigerants .
The jury announced the following winners :
Category : Large-scale refrigeration Project : Ammonia cooling plant for Paulaner Brewery Construction of new brewery buildings for Paulaner Brauerei GmbH & Co . KG in Munich-Langwied involved designing and producing a central cooling plant . This comprised an ammonia cooling system with screw compressors , evaporators with gravity circulation , evaporative
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