| Potatoes
No cooling off - growth despite obstacles for JD
Cooling Systems
JD Cooling Systems has had another busy year of growth in all sectors of their
extremely diverse business, says Group MD John Dye.
here is no doubt that when it
comes to big investments,
Brexit has had a negative effect
in terms of people’s confidence
at the moment. However this is
something we think that will be
temporary whereas the constant price pressure
being passed down through the major retail
chain remains the biggest obstacle to getting
people to invest in the long term.”
“Despite this we have been successful in
winning major orders this year right across the
farming spectrum. We are in the middle of
building a new high care vegetable production
facility in Scotland and Scotland is also the
scene of one of our larger storage projects this
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season where we are just completing a major
complex for East Lothian Produce.”
“ELP are another client who have seen the
benefits of using secondary glycol cooling
systems to deliver a long term, efficient and
sustainable solution to their cooling
requirements. 4 large stores provide facility to
hold crops such as potatoes, cabbage, broccoli
and other similar produce for long periods and
this flexibility is another key benefit of using
secondary cooling.”
In addition to these works in Scotland which
are being managed from JD Cooling’s office
near Edinburgh, the Group’s activities in the
farming sector include new onion storage in
Suffolk, potato storage in Norfolk, fruit storage
Kent with projects as far south as Cornwall
where they have recently completed a new
facility for one of the region’s major brassica
producers, again using secondary glycol
cooling systems.
Says Dye, “Whilst the other business
activities within the Group are growing at a
more rapid pace, farming and its connected
businesses across the food sector remain a
massive part of our overall turnover and
historically our clients in this sector are
extremely resilient and innovative and I am sure
will deal with whatever Brexit, major retailers or
mother nature throws at them!”
September 2016 | Farming Monthly | 19