Cold Link Africa June 2018 | Page 32

EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS INCORPORATING COLD CHAIN a vibrant, passionate, skilled, and energetic visited were refrigerant traders, while others woman. were involved in refrigeration dismantling. In Mexico, there is a total of nine The companies in both countries employ recycling/reclamation centres with a between 10 and 100 employees. This could population of 127 million, and the team be even higher if one considers the future of visited the following companies: Ecofrigo HCFCs in the next 12 years and as demand Recycling Centre Celaya in Los Mochis, for the servicing of existing R22 equipment Sinaloa, and Refri-Hogar in Oaxaca. grows, while the prices thereof takes off. OBSERVATIONS Owners of the recycling/reclamation centres have done a great job in ensuring It became apparent during this mission sustainability of their companies through that the reclamation machines scheduled strong collaborations with various and to be exported to South Africa by UNIDO relevant government departments, such should function within an existing company. as the collaboration between the NOUs That is, it should form part of the operations and implementing agencies like UNIDO, or processes. Some of the companies we in our case. Through the tough economic Site visit at the refrigerant reclamation facility in Los Mochis, Mexico. Meeting with the Argentinian NOU and reclamation expert. Site visit to a facility in Oaxa-ca, Mexico.