Cold Link Africa November/December 2017 | Page 10

NEWS INCORPORATING COLD CHAIN Continued from page 9 As a 100% South African owned company, Everflo is poised to expand its product range and focus on gaining market share in Africa and abroad. “Our expertise lies in complete refrigeration solutions for the fishing, marine, and aquaculture industry, both on-board and land-based,” said Potgieter. For this specific sector, they have low-charge ammonia freezing units in DX overfeed and pumped circulation format. It offers water chilling systems for seawater, fresh water, and glycol chillers. The Flo Ice system produces a slurry mixture for the rapid chilling of fish soon after being landed. For each application, Everflo has developed unique and innovative packaged units with the smallest footprint for installation in confined spaces and easy to transport and install in remote locations. All parts of the packages, be it chilling, Flo Ice, or low-charge ammonia units (except for the compressors, valves, and pumps), are designed and manufactured in-house. Pressure vessels, heat exchangers, ice generators, and package frames are manufactured in-house by their trained staff. Everflo boasts modern purpose-built premises in Killarney Gardens, Cape Town, and a staff complement of 42 — 16 in management and engineering and 26 in manufacturing and service. They contract additional staff for site installation work. Seventy per cent of Everflo’s installations and systems have been Protective company clothing is essential for all skilled staff in the production area. Some of the Everflo team members at its premises in Cape Town. 10 for a wide cross-section of the foreign market in Chile, Argentina, Peru, Norway, Iceland, Angola, Zambia, Australia, Russia, Namibia, and Spain. “Everflo prides itself in having well- engineered products of high quality. When supplying into markets across the globe, there is no room for lack of performance or poor quality. Any comebacks are costly and damaging to our reputation,” said Potgieter. The application of Flo Ice is not restricted to the fishing and marine industry, but has many benefits in saving www.coldlinkafrica.co.za energy in food processing, thermal storage in chill water systems, district cooling, and the unique application to decontaminate water from deep-level mining. The interest shown in its packaged low-charge ammonia systems, which can easily be connected to cold stores, blast freezers or chillers, has been encouraging. The system allows for multiple packages to be installed according to cooling load, or added at a later stage. “All packages are designed to be transported on standard road vehicles or shipped in ISO marine containers,” Potgieter concluded. CLA COLD LINK AFRICA • November | December 2017