Refrigeration technology has grown from its early applications in keeping food and drink cool to become a key technology that is now an essential part of our lives. Firstly, refrigeration technology serves to improve living and environmental conditions, and secondly many commercial and industrial manufacturing processes would no longer be conceivable in its absence. Environmental and climate protection are growing increasingly important.
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The challenge of global food security can only be met with comprehensive cold chains and sufficient refrigerated and frozen storage facilities. Depending on a given country’s level of industrialization, foodstuff losses may reach 20 to 40 percent of total production, and for fruit and vegetables in developing countries this figure may be as high as 60 to 80 percent.
