Grady McAdams, the leader of cold storage sales with Heatcraft Worldwide Refrigeration, talks with Linda Becker about using CO₂ for process cooling.

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There is no denying that the economic landscape has shifted in the past couple of years. An increased need for cold storage facilities, pharmaceutical manufacturing, food prcoessing, warehousing and distribution has elevated the global demand for industrial refrigeration solutions. Moving forward, it is possible to safely and efficiently adopt CO₂ sytems while realizing benefits.

Natural refrigerants deserve to be a bigger part of the climate-saving solution. CO2 has the potential to be as common of a refrigerant as R404A is today, at least for industrial process refrigeration systems.

M&M Carnot, a Source Capital LLC platform company, has acquired Logix, a Seattle-area controls manufacturer serving the industrial refrigeration market with controls for wineries, cold storage warehouses, distribution centers, and processing plants. 

Packaged in containers from 5 to 265 gallons, the premixed solution of chlorine dioxide product is a 99.7 percent pure, pH-neutral solution intended for low demand or trial applications. 

In the world of process cooling and freezing, there are diverse operations and needs. As such, selecting equipment appropriate to the application is essential if you are to achieve good results.

Linde started up a new carbon dioxide (CO₂) plant in Freeport, Texas, that will recycle the crude CO₂ supplied from an MEGlobal process. The crude CO₂ will be purified and liquefied into commercial grades to serve customers in a variety of industries, including food and beverage, where it is used to carbonate drinks, as well as to freeze, chill, preserve and package food.