Cold Link Africa November/December 2017 | Page 7

NEWS INCORPORATING COLD CHAIN Barpro Storage celebrates 21st birthday By Ilana Koegelenberg F rom humble beginnings in 1996, Barpro Storage has grown to the reputable industry stakeholder it is today, boasting more than 250 successful Storax installations across the world. GETTING STARTED In 1989, James Cunningham, managing director and founder of Barpro Storage, was employed by the Premier Group to run their Freezerlink cold store on Shropshire Street in Paarden Eiland, Cape Town. “I got the job, I am told, because I was the only applicant who wanted to go inside the freezer store,” he remembers. When I&J bought Freezerlink at the en