AIRFROSTER®: The blast freezer for ice packs

Challenge: To ensure the efficacy and safety of medicines during delivery to pharmacies, it is crucial to maintain specific temperature ranges.

Alternatives: Universal refrigeration units do not guarantee uniform refrigeration of the ice packs. Without specific refrigeration programs, the intensity of refrigeration also often varies. In such circumstances, ensuring process integrity requires refrigeration to be performed well below the desired target temperature. However, reliability and energy efficiency cannot be achieved at the same time. The alternative use of dry ice, on the other hand, causes additional procurement and storage costs, while significantly contributing to environmental pollution through the release of CO2.

Solution: The two separate refrigeration chambers of the AIRFROSTER® cool the ice packs to varying target temperatures. This ensures reliability, energy efficiency and thus also lower costs. The ergonomic design enables effortless loading and unloading, thereby minimising physical exertion.

Challenge: To maintain the cold chain all the way to the customer’s front door, foodstuffs must be safely refrigerated during transport.

Alternatives: The use of cool packs is convenient, but creates plastic waste. The experience for customers is also suboptimal as they have to handle, empty and dispose of the cool packs. Ice packs are therefore not a real alternative for companies that claim to work sustainably.

Solution: The reusable ice packs of the AIRFROSTER® system can be immediately brought back by delivery staff or returned as part of a subsequent order (deposit system). The whole process does not create any waste at all.

Challenge: Hospitals and care facilities are subject to particularly stringent food safety standards. To prevent the spread of germs, it is crucial that the food for breakfast and evening meals, which are typically served cold, is maintained at a temperature below 7°C. Given that a considerable amount of time usually lapses between central meal preparation and serving on the ward, proper refrigeration of the prepared meals is essential, particularly during the summer months.

Alternatives: The reliability of commercially available ice packs and refrigerating them in existing cold rooms is compromised by a number of variables (ice packs, cold rooms, temperature in the cold rooms, refrigeration time). Consequently, there is a risk of patients being served meals of substandard quality.

Solution: The AIRFROSTER® system is specifically designed to meet the refrigeration demands of standardised ice packs. As a result, the refrigeration process remains consistent, always adhering to a predetermined duration and intensity level. To provide even further peace of mind, the refrigeration process is constantly monitored. The ideal refrigeration of meals and thus patient safety are, therefore, comprehensively guaranteed. Thanks to the ergonomic design, operation of the system involves a minimum amount of physical exertion.