The most recent National Restaurant Association Expo showcased some of the very latest in refrigeration technologies as related to ice machines and reach-in and walk-in freezers and coolers. Many will be coming to places of business in the near future. But, for now, here’s some early adopters putting tomorrow’s technology to use today.
Reaching in for produce at a Roundy’s Supermarket in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, doesn’t seem all that different than it always has, but that store is now using CO as a refrigerant — instead of a hydrochlorofluorocarbon (HCFC) or hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) — in a transcritical configuration.