‘Sustainable cooling’, the commitment to change Styrofoam refrigerators

During years, expanded polystyrene, better known as styrofoam, It has been present in the conservation of the cold chain for the transport of various products of large industries, especially food.

(Icopor to decarbonize the economy).

However, the fight against climate change in the industry has led to a reconsideration of the use of this material.

This is how Colombian entrepreneurs created a sustainable alternative to replace styrofoam in cold chains and developed a solution that allows the cold chain to be preserved without the use of this material.

Your idea of ‘sustainable cooling’ It has already been implemented in countries like Nigeria, Bangladesh, India, Venezuela and the United States.

(Controversy over the bill that wants to ban Styrofoam).

David Sanclemente, co-founder of Indafre, the company that manufactures this solution, stated that these are portable refrigerators, which guarantee optimal temperature conditions for the transfer of food or medicine, based on materials that do not cause environmental damage.

It is estimated that the three businessmen behind this idea have invested approximately 2,500 million pesos in technological development, which includes molds and tools, as well as research, for the development of this refrigerator model.

(Opening the fridge less helps reduce energy consumption).

According to Sanclemente, from Indafre “We continue to add efforts so that, through sustainable cooling, the option of styrofoam in the logistics of transport operations of companies is eliminated and a profitable proposal is chosen, which at the same time turns out to be low cost due to the reduction in fuel consumption, pollution and CO2 emissions”.

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