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.