Consumers in the era of the new normal are expressing, ever more firmly, a trend that is forcing a profound change on the food and retail industry: the need to receive high quality products without limitations related to location and timing.
For industry players, this translates into the need to offer delivery services with high standards, a process that involves the entire supply chain, from production through storage to delivery to the end consumer.
This requirement applies especially to the cold chain. In fact, to ensure the highest levels of food safety and a shelf-life to match, it is necessary to create appropriate storage environments and, above all, to rely on refrigerated transport systems that can maintain the characteristics and organoleptic properties of products.
Many years of experience and know-how in the technical gas industry have enabled SIAD to design and develop new technologies dedicated to the refrigerated lalogistics segment: COOOL® FreeToGo is the result of this work.
It is an innovative and green alternative to the outdated systems currently in use. It employs R-744 refrigerant and ensures the resolution of the most common problems in the industry:
- Truly maintain the cold chain
- Simplify logistics management
- Easy access to urban centers
- Employing technologies with low environmental impact
- Use quiet refrigeration systems.
The revolution in the cold chain
COOOL® FreeToGo is the innovative refrigerated road transport system that harnesses the refrigeration power of CO2 R-744 for last-mile transport. But not only that, it is perfectly suited to all the needs of refrigerated road transport.
COOOL® FreeToGo is dedicated to vehicles up to 3.5 tons, travels at reduced energy cost, and provides a compressor-less refrigeration circuit that is independent of traction and thus guaranteed even when the engine is off, thus avoiding additional fuel consumption and noise and pollutant emissions.
How COOOL® FreeToGo Works
This solution allows transport vehicles to be converted into efficient refrigeration systems that can bring down temperatures 10 times faster, compared to conventional vehicles, and maintain them consistently during travel, and is capable of operating for fresh or frozen food.
During operation, air cooled by the heat exchanger is fed into the charge compartment allowing it to be thermoregulated, while the natural refrigerant gas, having arrived at the end of the cycle, is directed outside the vehicle body.
For the user, moreover, operation of COOOL® FreeToGo is very simple, intuitive, as in a traditional refrigeration vehicle: it can be programmed, activated, adjusted, and turned off from a convenient in-cab operator panel. Compatible with Industry 4.0 for remote monitoring of parameters and refrigeration unit, it ensures considerable economic benefits.
Learn how COOOL® FreeToGo works and what all the benefits are
How to recharge the system
The charging system is also extremely smooth, safe, and almost totally automatic. At the customer’s preplanned site, they are installed:
- A storage tank with flexible capacity, to be defined according to customer needs and the number of vans to be supplied
- A carbon dioxide dispenser with automatic shut-off on completion of filling
The only manual intervention required is the attachment of the refill hoses, which are equipped with quick couplers.
Refrigerated transport by road: here are all the advantages of the COOOL® FreeToGo system
The innovation introduced by COOOL® FreeToGoovercomes the limitations of the traditional transportation system within the cold chain, thus generating benefits not only for businesses, but also for workers, end consumers and the environment.
Here they are summarized by points.
Simplification of logistics
One of the strengths of COOOL® FreeToGois the reduction in the number of components compared to a traditional system. This implies a better user experience for workers, but more importantly, minimization of routine maintenance and, consequently, less risk of service interruption. In addition, fast temperature abatement ensures immediate availability of the vehicle even during sudden transports.
High performance and safety
As mentioned, the operation of COOOL® FreeToGo is completely autonomous with respect to the traction of the vehicle:this saves fuel, plus it is compatible with electric drives. Finally, refrigerant gas never enters the cargo space, so the system is extremely safe.
Eco-friendly
The refrigerant gas used is R744: an environmentally friendly alternative to fluorinated gases and, thanks to technologies developed by the companies belonging to the group, produced by SIAD through a virtuous cycle of biogas upgrading, with a very low environmental impact.
COOOL® FreeToGo meets sustainability standards for abating emissions from high global warming power greenhouse gases, as required by the European Green Deal and the Regulation no. 517/2014 of the European Parliament .
