AIRFROSTER®: The blast freezer for ice packs

Challenge: During delivery to pharmacies, medicines must be kept within different temperature ranges to ensure they remain safe for use.

Alternatives: Universal cooling devices result in uneven cooling of coolant packs. Without specific cooling programs, the cooling intensity also varies. Under these conditions, the process can only be safeguarded by cooling well below the actual target temperature. Process reliability and energy efficiency cannot be achieved at the same time. The alternative use of dry ice, on the other hand, causes procurement and storage costs and places a significant environmental burden through the release of CO².

Solution: Thanks to the two separate cooling chambers of the AIRFROSTER®, coolant packs are cooled down to different target temperatures – validated and reproducible. This ensures GDP-compliant process reliability, seamless documentation, energy efficiency and therefore lower costs. The ergonomic design enables loading and unloading with minimal physical effort and a reduced risk of operating errors. The ergonomic design enables loading and unloading with minimal physical effort.

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.