PML Kenya has invested US$300,000 in a new vacuum cooler system at the Mitchell Cotts Air Cargo Terminal at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi, with the aim of providing customers with an affordable and highly efficient temperature control measure to improve cool chain management.
The company said its new Weber Next Gen EU8 EP vacuum cooler, which cools products from 20-30oC to 1-5 oC in just 15-30 minutes and has a maximum capacity of 4000kg, boasts the very latest technology and is widely acknowledged as the best system on the market extending the life of products by 2-7 times longer than regular cooling methods.
The siting of the facility ensures that customers can deliver products landside, have them vacuum cooled and then stored in cold rooms. The already cooled shipments can then be seamlessly delivered to the aircraft (airside) directly from the cold stores within the shortest possible time frame, reducing exposure times and effectively maintaining the cool chain to maximise shelf-life.
In the long term, PML Kenya will continue to invest in technology to further enhance its cool chain management credentials and is looking to install a blast chiller at the same facility, offering a cooling system for products that arrive on site hot but which don’t qualify for vacuum cooling.
