Shortly after joining I&J (Irvin & Johnson) in 1991, I was put in charge of their five Cape Town freezer stores. One of them, now Auckland Cold Store in Paarden Eiland, was an early South African example of the Woodmason’s design using SIPs insulated panels from Rudnev’s South African company. Without knowing any of this …
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Attending this year’s informative GCCA conference in Cape Town’s Westin Hotel (2nd to 4th August, I pointed out, probably following one beer too many, that the façade of the world’s oldest Commercial Cold Store was a mere 200 meters away. Sir David Graaff, that unsung hero of Cape Town’s industrial beginnings, arrived in the port …
In 2015 Capespan Group continued its growth with the acquisition of a modern new packhouse on the banks of the Berg River in Paarl, Western Cape, as well as sizeable new apple and pear farms. Novo Packhouse, a state-of-the-art Topfruit packing facility opened in Paarl in 2009 was previously owned by Colors Fruit, and will …
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