Greenfrío exports dryers worldwide with low-GWP solutions

Customer specific R&D and innovation

Greenfrío offers installers a selection of refrigeration units for cold areas, “including a wide range of temperature (from -40 ºC to 15 ºC) and power values (from 2 to 100 CV),” explains Jean Claude Penadés, Sales Director.

In addition, the company specialises in R&D connected to innovation, and the new range of high-performance dryers is attributable to the latter. “It is a machine whose design and manufacture are customised. It contains the most advanced refrigeration and electronic components as well as a new controller that was specially designed to optimise the drying process and the machine's performance,” he continues.

This research, launched in 2015, has already been implemented by several well-known national industrial firms and the results exceeded expectations: “The final product met or even, in some cases, surpassed the client's demands and also permitted substantial energy savings,” points out the Sales Director.

Low-GWP solutions recommended by Climalife

Whether for industrial refrigeration, with the RX range of refrigeration units (compact and split units with microchannel condensers), or for autonomous or centralised drying units (with or without heat-transfer fluid), our aim is to “obtain optimal performance while saving as much energy as possible,” explains J.C. Penadés.

With regards to Climalife, he adds : " Both of our companies have an important common goal: to offer the refrigeration sector a reliable solution that has the least possible impact on the environment. Our close relationship with Climalife gives us a global insight into the refrigerants that we use in our machines; we receive recommendations and up-to-date data regardless of the temperature range required. Such is the case with the introduction of the R-448A (Solstice® N40) refrigerant in medium and low temperature applications.

"We also tested R-450A (Solstice® N13) in the dryers and medium temperature areas. We had to adjust certain components but the subsequent result was satisfactory", and it also improves the product’s overall price in comparison with its counterpart, R-134a (particularly due to the tax on GWP in place in Spain).

Greenfrío anticipates the future with R-1234ze : "We are designing and developing new machines with this low-GWP refrigerant and shall soon begin the test phase", concludes Penadés. 

Greenfrio in brief:

Founded : 2011

Number of employees : 12

Business : manufacture of refrigeration equipment for the food industry

Location : Oiartzun, Guipúzcoa, Spain.