ISSN 2412-7779 R65.55
INCORPORATING COLD CHAIN
One consolidated voice for the refrigeration industry
VOL. 02- No. 04 | March / April 2017
PRODUCER PROCESSOR TRANSPORTER DISTRIBUTOR RETAILER CONSUMER
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NEWS Are cardboard cartons a thing of the past?
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EVENTS Food waste – a crime against humanity
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Export table grapes by rail
By John Ackermann Seventeen years after its first trip from Kakamas, Northern Cape, in December 1999, the Transnet container train did four trips to Cape Town with some of the harvest of the 2016 season.
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FEATURES Development of R290 transport refrigeration
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PROJECT New greenfield table grape farm on the Orange River
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