Equal conditions everywhere
"There are already hundred operational in the United States," says Marc Paauw, director of Nijssen. "But in Europe, three tier ripening chambers are scarce. Mooy Logistics has the premier in the Netherlands. The most important challenge is to create equal conditions everywhere in the chamber so that the ripening is also equal."
Special cold zone for soft fruit
To condition the 8,500 m2 new packaging and storage spaces, Nijssen is foreseeing the building of a new cooling installation. The new building will have its own machine room, in which an ammonia pumping system will be placed. With a special cold zone and a packaging line for soft fruit, Mooy Logistics is playing into the increasing demand from the market. The storey floor of 3,000 m2 is used for added value activities such as packaging, re-packaging, labelling and order picking. Besides vegetables, fruit, flowers and plants, Mooy Logistics wants to increasingly foresee the logistics of other conditioned products.
Reducing CO2 emissions
As a participant in the Lean & Green Logistics programme, Mooy Logistics is actively working to push back CO2 emissions. An environmentally and energy efficient installation was therefore the starting point of the design. Because the installation doesn't usually run on full capacity, compressors that also realise a high COP value in part load were opted for. The Nijssen Coolmaster control software which was developed in house causes an efficient regulation of the installation. The advanced Nijssen Power Saving (NPS) module realises an extra energy saving of around 15%. The design of the installation and the chosen components meet the demands of the EIA 2015.