The 'world of freezing' was featured on the BBC One Show earlier this week. The programme featured the UK's largest cold store in Wisbech which is fully automated. The technical content of the programme was excellent and provided viewers with information on what happens to food when it is frozen and how quality and safety change when food is frozen. The programme also demonstrated why larger cold stores should be more efficient than smaller stores.

At RD&T we regularly work with companies to help them test and develop products or to help them produce product more efficiently. Recently RD&T have worked with Pure Cold, Clark Doors, apetito and Union Industries to help them develop products or processes:

Pure Cold -a retail display manufacturer. RD&T helped develop an energy efficient and low temperature multi-deck cabinet.

Clark Doors - a manufacturer of a novel rapid roll cold store door that RD&T helped test and develop.

The Energy Related Products Framework Directive (formerly known as the Energy Using Products Directive) will develop MEPS (Minimum Energy Performance Standards) for a number of refrigerated appliances. . Work to develop MEPS has been carried out under a number of tasks called ‘lots’. The latest information from Lot 1 dealing with refrigerating and freezing equipment (including commercial service cabinets, blast chiller/freezer cabinets, walk-in cold rooms, industrial process chillers and packaged condensing units) is now available.