A Spanish vegetable processor was experiencing issues with the quality of the rice it was producing via its individually quick freezing (IQF) method. Installing an IQF tunnel system with sequential defrost helped the company maximize production.

Danfoss broke ground on a new facility in Tallahassee, Fla. The 167,000 ft² building, scheduled for completion in early 2023, will house manufacturing for its Turbocor compressors.

A benchmarking app allows U.K.-based temperature-controlled storage companies to compare their sites’ energy performance against industry best-practice guidelines and predicts potential energy and CO₂ savings.

Using tubular heating elements rather than heat tracing tape to de-ice the doors of a refrigeration system is the focus of a blog post from heaters and controls manufacturer Tempco Electric Heater Corp., Wood Dale, Ill.

The global industrial refrigeration system market is estimated to grow from $19.4 billion in 2021 to $25.1 billion by 2026, at a CAGR of 5.3 percent rate, according to a research report.

Life Science Logistics (LSL), a national provider of healthcare supply-chain solutions, will open a 440,000 ft² cold-storage facility in Clayton, Ind., in January 2022. The controlled-temperature plant, the company’s third in the Indianapolis area, is expected to create 50 to 100 jobs.

RLS Logistics, a third-party provider of cold chain solutions, acquired Premier Refrigerated Warehouse. The acquired company, which operates a cold-storage warehouse in Fort Worth, Texas, will now be known as RLS Premier.

A 262,000 ft² avocado facility that includes cold storage, ripening, processing and packaging space opened in Laredo, Texas.

The latest version of IIAR 2, a standard for the design of safe closed-circuit ammonia refrigeration systems, has been published by the International Institute of Ammonia Refrigeration (IIAR).

A multinational brewery in the United Kingdom installed a system that will deliver 1.2 MW of process cooling to a beer-bottling plant line.