AEFYT, Association of Cold Companies and their Technologies, presents the online version of its course “Cold and the food industry. Refrigeration applications in the processes of production and preservation of products ”. The objective is to provide installers with the knowledge that allows them to assess and advise their clients on the most suitable refrigeration procedures to be applied in the production, conservation and marketing of food products.
The course will be given through the AEFYT online training platform between April 7 and May 12 and is aimed at design engineers of refrigeration facilities, heads of engineering, qualified refrigeration installers and those responsible for maintenance and safety of refrigeration facilities. cold,
The program responds to the importance of cold processes in the first industrial sector in turnover in Spain (1). It does a complete review of both the basic food product production processes and the refrigeration treatments involved in them, as well as the basic design of specific plants and facilities. It also comes at a key moment for the cold industry and its applications in the agri-food industry given the evolution of refrigeration systems that, marked by the demands of energy efficiency and emission reduction, is introducing notable changes in these systems.
The course consists of two parts. The first provides a description of the production processes that will deal with all the subsectors of the agri-food industry: fruit and vegetable, dairy, meat, fishing, wine and beverage, frozen products, bakery and the so-called fourth and fifth range. The second, for its part, addresses the production processes and, in it, the specific facilities for rapid cooling, freezing, lyophilization, storage and cold storage of perishable products will be dealt with; as well as refrigerated warehouses and refrigerated transport.
For Manuel Lamúa, Manager of AEFYT and director of the Course, “this course responds to a crossed need of the cold sector and the food sector. The contribution of cold processes to a key industry for the Spanish economy, which is made up of more than .700 companies of different sizes, requires well-trained professionals. With this course, we hope to provide them with the ability to dialogue between the professional refrigerators and the food prescriber and start the most appropriate processes for each of the food subsectors at a time when the cold is undergoing great changes.
This training is one more example of AEFYT's commitment to the industry. In this sense, the Association has led an Expression of Interest presented to the Ministry of Industry, Consumption and Tourism within the framework of the Recovery Plan that aims to contribute to the modernization of five subsectors of the agricultural industry (dairy, meat, fruit and vegetable , viticulture and olive growing) accompanying them in the double digital and environmental transition through the renewal of their cold systems.
