The hot summer months in Australia can be a challenge for companies that rely on sub zero refrigeration.
For local fruit juice company, Nudie Juice, the season began with news from refrigeration partner, Amertec, that the chiller needed an upgrade to meet summer demand.
Nudie Juice production manager, Tobias Dunn, said the company's juice manufacturing equipment needs to be kept at sub zero temperatures.
“We do this through the use of a chiller system which utilises two separate circuits,” he said.
“We were unable to switch off one of the circuits to work on the other independently.
“Because of constant demand and throughput the system couldn't keep up.”
The only way to keep production running during the upgrade, while also getting through summer at full production, a supplementary chiller was required.
Amertec rang Active Air Rentals and at 4pm the same day a 220kW low temperature chiller and 200 kVA generator was installed.
Active Air Rentals NSW manager, James Quintal, said the site was really tight.
“We had to place the temporary chiller system parallel to the permanent system, which is right near the delivery bay so there was no room for error,” he said.
“We installed the temporary chiller as a gravity fed system; pumping our chilled water into the top of their cooling tank with a flange system at the base to draw out the warm water and feed it back into our temporary chiller.”
Installation was completed by 11pm and allowed Nudie Juice to upgrade its chiller with no production downtime while still meeting increased summer capacity.
Nudie Juice was impressed by the high level of technical support and service. But best of all, Dunn said the Active Air team minimised costs by optimising refueling, service checks and equipment specifications.