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Cooltech booth at FMI Connect in June.
THE NEXT REFRIGERATION SYSTEM? Cooltech brings its gas-free, magnetic refrigeration technology to U.S. supermarket industry – By Mark Hamstra and Michael Garry
hat could be better for the environment than using a natural refrigerant that changes phase between gas and liquid?
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Using no refrigerant at all, according to executives from Cooltech Applications, a pioneer of commercial magnetic refrigeration systems that recently formed a partnership to bring its eco-friendly technology to the U.S. for installation in supermarket coolers. Strasbourg, France-based Cooltech in June unveiled an agreement with Structural Concepts, a refrigerated display-case manufacturer based in Muskegon, Mich., by which Structural Solutions will incorporate Cooltech’s novel magnetic refrigeration system in some of its cases. Both companies exhibited at the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) Connect conference in June in Chicago, where Accelerate America spoke with Michael Hittinger, engineering manager at Cooltech, and Vincent Delecourt, director of sales and marketing, about their plans to introduce magnetic refrigeration to the U.S. grocery industry.
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Accelerate America September 2016