Refrigeration

February 9 2012
IRC webinar: business briefing, Food and Farming – the Role of Refrigeration.

The International Refrigeration Committee held a business briefing on the future of food and farming – the role of refrigeration.  The presentations are available to download here...

July 14 2010
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Refrigeration Road Map - an action plan for the retail sector

The Carbon Trust, The Institute of Refrigeration and the British Refrigeration Association have jointly produced a 'Refrigeration Road Map' aimed at helping supermarkets, contractors and equipment manufacturers to identify the technologies most likely...

February 2 2010
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Supermarket refrigeration survey

In January 2009, the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) launched their Chilling Facts Campaign with the publication of their first survey on supermarket refrigeration, which was carried out in the summer of 2008.

November 20 2009
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Developments in appliance labelling

From now on, any advertisement promoting price or energy efficiency of fridges, washing machines or ovens will have to indicate the product's energy class.

November 4 2009
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Stobart group pioneers lower carbon fruit & veg

The Stobart logistics group have started to import Spanish fresh produce to the UK by the first fully refrigerated train.

August 6 2009
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Refrigeration and food security

The International Institute of Refrigeration has produced a paper entitled The role of refrigeration in worldwide nutrition.

July 15 2009
Chilled Food Association - sustainability goals

The CFA has agreed its Chilled Prepared Food Sector Sustainability Aims whereby CFA will encourage the chilled food sector to minimise its carbon footprint, help setting performance targets, assist the development of means of monitoring against them,...

March 20 2009
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Improving the energy efficiency of the cold chain

Published in February 2009 by the British Frozen Food Federation (supported by the Carbon Trust) this report which investigates the scope for improving the energy efficiency of the cold chain.

February 12 2009
Chilling facts: EIA report

In 2009 the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) produced a report on the climate impacts of supermarket refrigeration. EIA's research focuses on the potent greenhouse gases, hydrofluorocarbons (HFC) used in supermarket fridges and freezers.

February 12 2009
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Institute of Refrigeration

A paper presented by Judith Evans of Bristol University at an Institute of Refrigeration event in 2008, reports on a Defra funded project undertaken by four research institutes which set out to: