This bound Weber Cooling installed a vacuum cooler at SQ Flora in Naaldwijk . Quality is key , as the cliché goes , and moreover , the trade is frowned upon when blossom keel over in the shop . Therefore , cooling back as much as potential is a must , and fastest and most effective agency to do this is with vacancy cooling .
" When product allow for us , it has to be as dusty as possible . Preferably around 4 or 5 degrees , " explains Steven van Reeven , salesman at the trading companionship . " In the chemical chain , the still hunt almost always warm up again ; a trolley is always outside somewhere for a while . There ’s an excess 10 degrees between the moment we transmit it out and the moment the customer expose their blossom . However , from 4 to 5 to 14 to 15 degrees is still a vast gain compared to 14 to 15 degrees to 24 to 25 degrees . "
The cooler at work at SQ Flora
That is what commonly happens . In a received refrigeration system , it take hours before the frigidity is properly absorb . Moreover , the heat is actually in the box seat and , when stacked on pallets , in the halfway few . This logic does not use to vacuum cool down : at all conceivable ( mensuration ) point , the craw cools down just as quickly . This hap at a fast stride - 20 to 25 minutes is commonly enough , and moreover , in tumid bounds .
The principle of vacuum chilling is that it goes faster the more urine you extract from the intersection . This also means that not all Cartesian product can withstand it equally well . In fresh green goods , for example , strawberries and asparagus appear to be poorly able to cope with large sudden changes in temperature . " We do n’t have a list of what can and can not be tolerate , " says Steven , " but we did find that bouvardia , for example , finds it intemperately to tolerate rapid temperature reduction . Also , a number of gullible fragrancy fillers turned out not to be too firm . But large products such as chrysanthemum , lily or lisianthus are backbreaking and that goes very well . "
In price of trade , SQ Flora focuses to a large extent on the Middle East . That is , everything is airfreight , products never leave behind in H2O but always dry out in a boxful . In flowers , a run cold chain is always of neat grandness , but leaving a box of peonies in the sun at 20 or even 40 degrees is fatal .
Datalogger"We institutionalise a data logger with almost all shipments " , concludes Steven . " That is primarily for call purposes , but it also allows us to chart where and when the temperature rise the most . That direction you bump out that it almost always has to waitress somewhere , and that ’s also how we get to the 10 or so degrees of warming . "
One unit of measurement has been installed , which can be used to chill a pallet at a time . Its reward have not gone unnoticed in the mountain range . For example , more and more growers are using the technology , and Weber has also already instal several systems at various trader in and around the auction .
For more information : Sylvia van Uden en Hans JuursemaWeber Cooling+31 884 256 207[email protected]|[email protected]www.webercooling.com
SQ FloraSteven van ReevenE:[email protected]www.sqflora.com
