Drying and cooling in a changing climate
As an arable farmer, you want to dry and store your crops as well as possible after harvest, while maintaining quality. Drying and cooling crops with outside air is becoming increasingly uncertain, the climate is changing and the weather is less predictable. Storing produce for long periods without compromising quality is becoming increasingly difficult and the ban on the chemical sprout inhibitor, chlorpropham, adds to the challenge. We help you to control temperature, humidity and CO2 levels to manage these challenges.
Year-round constant storage conditions
Equans has developed various storage solutions which give you full control over the drying and storage process, whatever the season. We have a solution for short, medium and long term storage for every budget. Our solution will meet your requirements, your specific product characteristics and ensure that you maintain product quality.
Our intelligent and sustainable storage systems are fully mechanical. This allows you to dry and store agricultural products in constant conditions, regardless of the outside air. When outside air conditions are favourable, the refined control system can regulate the hatches and thrust fans with extreme precision to provide you the best of both worlds, ensuring optimum storage conditions for your product all year round.
Storing potatoes with less weight loss and higher yields? Choose our mechanical storage.
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Natural refrigerants
Food processors are increasingly being asked to account for the way in which their suppliers have set up the production process and how they handle raw materials and pesticides. This forces you to operate more sustainably and energy efficiently. Every storage solution from Equans therefore operates with natural refrigerants. These products are environmentally friendly and are often much more energy efficient, without compromising the cooling capacity. This also protects your own production process because from 2022, no new cooling installations with synthetic refrigerants may be built.
Energy-efficient technologies
With each storage facility, we look for opportunities to use residual heat and save or eliminate gas. We design a tailor-made solution to achieve excellent power distribution with maximum energy efficiency and minimal CO2 emissions. Good for the environment and your wallet. By investing in energy-efficient technology, you can benefit from tax incentives such as the Energy Investment Allowance (EIA), the Sustainable Energy Production and Climate Transition Incentive Scheme (SDE++) and local authority incentive schemes.
Do you want to control the conditions for drying, heating and storing onions? Then choose condensation drying.
Request a free information brochureEliminate costly sprout inhibitors
Our storage solutions address to the ban on chlorpropham, a chemical sprout inhibitor. In a stable environment, you greatly reduce or even eliminate the need for sprout inhibitors, because produce remains calm, does not generate heat and germinates less. This makes our systems particularly interesting for organic growers. If you still want to use (biological) sprout inhibitors, you can use it indoors in closed storage where it will not evaporate. This is a golden combination.
