Outlook 2018: Revolutionary systems for wider applications

We are now in the Industry 4.0, the era of the “smart factories”, in which computers, data and automation come together in an entirely new way to lead to a faster and more flexible production process, greater efficiency of material, and reduction of complexity and downtime. There is no doubt that this is one of the main trends in 2018 and in the years to come and at the same time we also believe that we will see increasing attention to sustainable growth that requires a rational use of natural resources i.e. energy and water that Frigel has always put at the heart of design of new products.

 

Frigel has put a lot of effort in recent years in studying the markets and applications to develop the best solutions for process cooling always focused to ensure the best performances, highest efficiency and longer reliability. The products that we will be promoting with passion in 2018 are not only revolutionary but they also cover an incredibly wide range of applications.  

 

 

One of these is MiND, a digital solution developed to meet the Industry 4.0 and IIOT (Industrial Internet Of Things) standards. A powerful device that has come out to fulfill the need of customers that want to monitor their entire plant to measure and control their overall performances and consumptions, MiND is really an extraordinary product. It consists of a powerful industrial PLC, where data from all Frigel equipment and from other devices are collected and stored, and a user-friendly software interface. With local and remote accesses, MiND system provides to customers a full control and supervision of their plant. On the other side, MiND system is an innovative tool to assure customers a reliable maintenance service.

 

Our focus next year will be also on publicizing and more importantly explaining our innovative and revolutionary cooling system designed for food and beverage preparation that represent a paradigm shift in the industry and can cover all cooling demands with unbeatable performance improvements and savings when compared to traditional solutions. But we will be also talking about our Ecodry, 3PR and Digital Microgels that have proved to provide remarkably successful in plastic market and have got new look and additional features.

 

The innovative cooling system developed by Frigel for food and beverage processes is an integrated solution based on two technologies, process-synchronized refrigeration units, single or multi-cascade configuration, to provide chilled water and a central adiabatic cooling system to supply ambient water. This revolutionary concept allows us to design the refrigeration units tailored to the process in terms of cooling and flow rate to achieve the highest efficiency and effectiveness of cooling. While the central circuit is used to cool the condensers of our chillers and can also do direct cooling of any process that requires ambient temperature. If necessary, these water-cooled chillers can also be operated as heat pump to produce hot water for the same process or other needs. Last but not least, our system is very compact, modular and Ammonia-free, as it utilizes innocuous refrigeration gas with the lowest GWP available today and is divided into several separated small circuits so in case of leakage the risk of emissions is reduced to minimum.  But I have also to say something about the user-friendly 10” and 7” touch screen that are used on our main controller 3PR and Digital Microgels, which are designed for connectivity, data recording and remote access, that have already proved to make the life of our customers much easier in understanding how the machines are performing and during maintenance and troubleshooting. 

 

Given the increasing demand for our products, we are investing to expand and open new production sites worldwide. In addition to the current factories in Italy, Thailand and Brazil, we have recently acquired a much bigger building of 5,000sq in Brazil and made a direct investment in India aiming at providing better deliveries and local support.  

 

Frigel Asia Pacific Co., Ltd.

Tel: +66 3857 7799

E-mail: sales.fap@frigel.com

Website: www.frigel.com