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Scancool enters into co-operation with Star Refrigeration

– combatting climate change with environmentally-friendly refrigeration and heat pump solutions

Scancool has signed a letter of intent with British Star Refrigeration (Star) concerning a major project.  Star, which is known for its innovative solutions, is a large, private owned manufacturer of retail and industrial refrigeration plants in Britain and continuously developing refrigeration and heat pump solutions. The co-operation expands Scancool's product range in the product groups of both HEAT and COOL. As a result of the letter of intent Scancool has also recruited new staff.

Environmentally friendly retail refrigeration

Scancool has over 25 years of experience of industrial refrigeration. The co-operation with Star Refrigeration marks Scancool's entrance into the field of retail refrigeration. The agreement covers licence manufacture which ranges from planning of comprehensive services to maintenance in Finland, Sweden and the Baltic Countries. The refrigerant in Star's retail refrigeration equipment is natural, environmentally-friendly carbon dioxide.

– Such solutions have not been seen in Finland before. There have been occasional pilot projects in Finland, but the solutions used in them are considerably less energy-efficient than Star's solution. A few hundreds of similar retail refrigeration projects have already been carried out in Sweden, managing director Jonny Asplund says. A couple of thousands of stores will receive new refrigeration equipment in Finland during the next 5–10 years, according to Asplund.

– We are confident that an energy-efficient and environmentally-friendly solution will increase our turnover considerably during the next few years.

Combatting climate change with heavy-weight industrial heat pumps

The new agreement also expands Scancool's HEAT product range. Star manufactures bigger industrial heat pumps than Scancool. The development and increasing popularity of industrial heat pumps have been boosted by EU's ambitious climate and energy objectives which aim to reduce releases, increase the proportion of renewable energy and improve energy efficiency.

– The refrigerant in Star's environmentally friendly industrial heat pumps is ammonia, and the pumps can generate hot water up to 90°C. One of the projects currently in preparation is the world's largest (14 megawatt) heat pump solution based on a natural refrigerant in Norway, where sea water is used to generate 90°C water into a district heating network. Star's big industrial heat pump can be used to provide an urban area with a large-scale district heating and cooling solution in which one machine can provide both the cooling and the heating in the same circuit.

Managing director Jonny Asplund emphasises that Scancool continues to develop and sell its own compact heat pump modules which are based on HFC refrigerants. Our own pumps are the cornerstone of our HEAT operations and competence. We have recently closed new contracts with e.g. Valio and Fortum. 

Information Jonny Asplund, managing director, Oy Scancool Ab, www.scancool.fi

Tel. 040 861 3005, jonny.asplund@scancool.fi

Dave Pearson, innovation director, Star Refrigeration Ltd, www.star-ref.co.uk

Tel/Mobile. + 44 7976 607746, dpearson@star-ref.co.uk

Rob Lamb, sales&marketing director, Star Refrigeration Ltd, www.star-ref.co.uk

Tel. + 44 1332 756041, rlamb@star-ref.co.uk