INCORPORATING COLD CHAIN
# FRIGAIR2018
From left: José Marques( Bitzer); José Simoes( Compact Cool); Pablo Simoes( Compact Cool); Saquil Amir( Sotrec / Beira); and Carlos Amir( Sotrec / Beira).
Some Cape Town visitors in town, from left: Evert Potgieter( Everflo); Dawie Kriel( Energy Partners); Anthony Hughes( Everflo); and Trevor Dyer( AC & R Components).
The evening was celebrated alongside international guests and customers. make safe investments and gain long-term control about their operation costs; to be in line with current and future legislations; and to secure their businesses. Remember, for the life cycle costs, the refrigeration installation, together with energy- and maintenance costs, is the largest investment for a food retail store.”
Bucher also spoke about the company’ s global growth, mentioning Bitzer’ s recent acquisition of Alfa Laval’ s shell and tube heat exchanger business. He also spoke about the KIMO acquisition, explaining how these ventures benefit the customer.“ With these measurements, we want to make your life and the handling of our products easier for you, to enable you to concentrate, and be successful in your core competencies and businesses,” Bucher added.
“ Our passion is to be a good partner for you, to be present with our local offices in the local market, and to be able to understand and support you,” said Bucher.“ We are a global company, but we have a high respect for each single region we do business in, and we want to understand and work together with you, for our mutual benefit, and to improve our quality of life. This is one of the key targets in our corporate company values.”
After the short speeches, the celebrations continued amid the festive decor matched to Bitzer’ s well-known green and black colour palette. It wasn’ t just the balloons that were green and black— even the cake featured these unusual confectionary colours!
Happy birthday, Bitzer SA! CLA
Coming next edition: complete FRIGAIR 2018 review
By Ilana Koegelenberg
The long-awaited HVAC & R industry calendar highlight— FRIGAIR 2018— took place from 6 to 8 June, featuring not only an exhibition but various other events and conference programmes.
2018
AFRICA’ S ONLY DEDICATED HEATING, VENTILATION, AIR CONDITIONING, REFRIGERATION & ENERGY EVENT
Keep an eye out for the September edition of Cold Link Africa to see what happened at the show. You can look forward to:
• Exhibitor review— what each exhibitor had on show.
• Events, launches, and demos.
• SAIRAC free-to-attend seminar programme review.
• ASHRAE speaker short courses feedback.
• Much, much more …
So, watch this space!
CLA
COLD LINK AFRICA • July / August 2018 www. coldlinkafrica. co. za
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