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INCORPORATING COLD CHAIN
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Taking de-greening to the next level at Endulini Fruit
CLIENT BRIEF
Endulini Fruit is based in Patensie, Eastern
Cape, and when their ‘traditional’ de-
greening rooms were becoming too small
in capacity (number of crates), they
started looking for a new solution. The
client’s main requirement was for energy
savings, water savings, increasing the
number of crates per room, and increasing
the humidity level during operation.
San Group was tasked with finding an
alternative and came up with a unique
concept that offered great savings as well
as an improvement on the de-greening
process. The client bought into the concept
and they managed to deliver a superior
quality as well as functional solution.
The plans were approved and the
upgrade happened speedily from March
to May 2018.
“As far as we are concerned,
this is the only de-greening rooms
currently operating with this level of
sophistication in South Africa,” says
Juan-Pierre van Zyl, refrigeration
general manager at San Group.
They have made use of some of the
latest type of technologies for monitoring
and ease of operation. Rooms are fitted
with touch screen PLC operation and the
entire room’s operation can be monitored
as well as adjusted as required, depending
on user access on site or remotely. The
rooms are all connected to an alarm
Humidity harvesting tank with filtration system.
BG sectional door frame and springs being fitted during construction phase.
Sectional door set-up and programming during construction phase.
Complete certified ethylene station.
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