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InspiraFarms Cooling technology drives Kakuzi’s sustainability vision
By InspiraFarms Cooling, edited by Eamonn Ryan Avocado export is flourishing in Kenya. The country is currently ranked eighth globally in avocado production, having exported 26 481 tonnes of the…
Cape’s Babylonstoren opens new cold store warehouse in Midrand
Compiled by Eamonn Ryan with technical input from Babylonstoren operations manager: Johannesburg, Koos Redelinghuys; and Graham Bloom, owner of contractor Cool Reaction (Pty) Ltd. Babylonstoren, renowned for its premium Cape…
Anyone for a collaboration cocktail?
By Christine Storey, IWC Everyone and everything has a story. This one begins in 1999, when Pieter van Helden fell in love with the distillation process and started the production…
Eskort’s pig meat processing plant upgrade drives efficiencies
By Eamonn Ryan with technical input from Stephen Frewen, refrigeration design engineer: AMC Engineers, Gert van Rooyen, lead applications engineer: HC Group, Robert Kershaw of Barpro, and Eskort. Eskort, South…
The first of many CO2 projects for SCM Ref Africa
By Jason Meredith, SCM Ref Africa mechanical engineer This was an all-new light industrial project which began February 2022 and ended October 2022. What made the project special is that…
Kenya’s Instaveg benefits from modular cold storage, pre-cooling and processing facility
By Sharon Cheboi of InspiraFarms Cooling The fresh produce export industry in Kenya is a million-dollar industry, with vegetables, fruit and nuts accounting for over USD266.3-million worth of export revenue…