General Interest

DID YOU KNOW – Storax can withstand earthquakes !

Construction, General Interest, Maintenance, Mobile Racking, Safety, Uncategorized /

In February 2010 an earthquake measuring 8.8 on the Richter scale hit Fruiticola Olmué, a fruit processing company in Chile, South America. Fruiticola had a Storax system installed holding over 2 300 pallets and remained unaffected. Following the tragic events, Fruiticola’s owner Max Hassler wrote to the then Managing Director of Storax – Ken Jones. He said: “I write to you in acknowledgement of the quality of the system installed in our plant in Chillan.  We had only very minor damage, a small purchase order is being made, and the system remained operational once we could get to it after the events here in Chile.  We are located less than one hundred kilometres from the epicentre of this very large quake.” Two years after the quake Fruiticola Olmué installed their 2nd Storax mobile system with a hold capacity of 7,850 pallets.  Storax mobiles installed in seismic areas have additional features which increase base stability. For the full story visit: http://warehousenews.co.uk/2012/03/storax-racking-systems-unshakeable/  

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Should water tanks be a compulsory feature at all cold stores and warehouses? – Lutz Refrigeration responds

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Rain water storage systems to supply evaporative cooling towers here in South Africa We are proud to say that Lutz Refrigeration in collaboration with Barpro will be pioneering the use of rain water harvesting to supply the fridge plant at Southern Cold Storage’s new freezer rental storage facilities in Germiston Johannesburg. The multiplex system will be cooling the 20 000m³ freezer room down to -25°C.  Opting for evaporative cooling with Freon is very much against the grain, but by doing this we managed to keep the capital costs in a standard Freon league while competing neck and neck with Ammonia plants on energy efficiency. Initially we will be installing 20m³ of water storage facilities which will offer two days of standby water capacity and will require a 20mm rainfall to be topped up.  Judging from historical rain falls and a bit of field testing we will probably increase that to around 40m³ once the system is up and running. The freezer store rooms are scheduled for commissioning during November this year, we will follow up with photos and feedback once the system is up and running. For more information contact Kevin Walter by email: kevinw@lutzrefrigeration.co.za

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Barpro Storage heading on 20 years!

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Over the past few months we have been highlighting some special dates and events for the company starting with the history and where it all began. Today we are a team of 25 including fully trained and experienced technicians, a design & manufacturing team, sales & office support and we have branches in both Cape Town and Johannesburg with a fully operational workshop producing the highest quality spares. We have also extended our product range by supplying Ice Melt and Febset; and are the exclusive distributors in Africa for Delf Coldwear. Working as a team, Barpro Storage boasts over 100 years combined experience – in just the technical and marketing departments; and we are delighted to place this experience and expertise at our customers’ disposal.  

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