On Wednesday 18 October the first stone was officially laid for the construction of the new cold store of Kloosterboer Lelystad. The new, fully automatic cold store will have a storage capacity of 40,000 pallets, and should be operational in the fourth quarter of 2018.
From left to right: Carolien Gase (Gemeente Lelystad), Stephane Pluenet (Kloosterboer), Rien Brooijmans and Ronald Dees (McCain) laying the first stone for the new cold store together (Photo: © Fotostudio Wierd).
The new state-of-the-art, fully automatic cold store is built according to the latest technologies, and will use 50 per cent less energy than a conventional cold store. This is equal to a reduction of 1,551 tonnes of CO2 per year. The new location offers McCain, as launching customer, a total solution due to the centralisation of Northern European stocks, which were previously divided over four locations. This decrease of about 6,000 transports and 420,000 kilometres results in a decrease of about 386 tonnes of CO2 emissions per year.