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In search of constant innovation to improve our customers’ satisfaction and follow current market trends, one of Frost-Trol ’s objectives over the past few years has been to complete our plug-in cabinet product range, making it possible today to provide our customers with a large diversity of models, from vertical display cabinets to serve-over counters, glass-door cases, islands or chest freezers. These new models perfectly adapt to any type of stores through a large variety of high quality design cabinets.

With an elegant and modern line, these cabinets are provided under different modulation formats helping customers optimize their merchandising strategies. The design of this new range is the result of a work that covers three main aspects: a lower energy consumption, thanks to the integration of sliding doors with our own design, a higher visibility of products on display for example using a larger glass pane around the islands, and lower noise levels thus minimizing nuisance caused to staff and customers.

Highly committed to environmental respect, Frost-Trol has focused its development activities on reducing environmental impact for many years, by creating sustainable product designs which minimize CO2 emissions and foster energy saving and efficiency. In view of this, our plug-in cabinets are designed to operate with natural fluids (such as R290 refrigerant) thus contributing to reduce the carbone footprint. In order to reach such optimum results, we firmly bet on Research and Development through our Technical Department by elaborating many successful high technology solutions.

Frost-Trol over the past few years has led to the development of a new product line of refrigerated cabinets named frostCO2

The strong environmental commitment of Frost-Trol over the past few years has led to the development of a new product line of refrigerated cabinets named frostCO2 , using CO2 natural fluid (R744) as a refrigerant, with a low greenhouse effect impact and a long lifespan as a refrigerant.

This new product line has emerged thanks to Frost-Trol’ s R&D&i Department in collaboration with Jaume I University of Castellon; both entities have actually worked together in order to assess the performance of different configurations of the thermodynamic cycle in one R744 direct expansion vapour compression installation, for remote control and plug-in cabinets.

After quite a few tests carried out at Frost-Trol laboratories on different models designed for this refrigerant, the first supermarket equipped with R744 technology cabinets of Frost-Trol saw the light in Denmark in the middle of 2008. By the end of 2010, there were about thirty stores running with the technology of both Frost-Trol and Green&Cool (with regards to cabinets and central packs respectively) in Denmark and in the Netherlands.

In those regions where ambient temperature is rather high, such as the Mediterranean countries, the efficiency of these systems diminishes because of this; as a matter of fact, in installations running under transcritical conditions, its performance declines with temperature. In this sense, Frost-Trol has developed a system which combines the use of this natural fluid (CO2) as a refrigerant and the cold aisle air-conditioning NCA –System*, (a system patented by Frost-Trol), which enables to work with this fluid under fifferent ambient conditions with a high performance of the whole system.

*NCA-System, a system based on heat recovery in supermarket runs.