Building a modern cold chain base: Trends and technological innovations in cold storage design

With the development of industrialization, the national policy reflects the great importance of the construction of storage and cold chain logistics facilities, especially the adjustment and revitalization of the national logistics industry plan, so that the storage industry has been very big changes, China's cold storage market is thriving. Economic globalization, commodity diversification and personalized consumption demand have put forward higher requirements for warehousing.

From the perspective of global cold storage development, it is mainly divided into three stages. The first stage was from the 1870s to the 1940s, when the world's first mechanical refrigeration equipment came out, the use of artificial refrigeration equipment to control low temperature success, laying the foundation for modern cold storage refrigeration.

The second stage is the 1940s - the end of the 20th century, the rapid development of cold storage buildings, agricultural and livestock products from the harvest, processing to the sale of commodities in all aspects of the basic refrigeration, at this time the type of cold storage to mechanical single-layer cold storage. From the end of the 20th century to the third stage, to create intelligent, energy-saving and environmentally friendly cold storage.

Cold storage market personalized, diversified needs

With the improvement of people's quality of life, the demand for cold chain products has gradually changed from the storage type cold storage with single function to the circulation type cold storage with comprehensive operation capabilities such as order processing, sorting, circulation processing, packaging, and value-added services such as inventory financing, which puts forward new requirements for the functional diversity of cold storage.

In the face of the trend of personalized and diversified market demand, cold storage will be forced to rapidly transform and upgrade. The cold storage number intelligence will become one of the important means to achieve this goal, which can improve the reaction speed, flow efficiency, resource matching accuracy of the cold storage, and better meet the needs of diversified markets.

The state has begun to launch carbon verification pilot, clear local governments set green carbon reduction tasks, and local enterprises are facing huge green pressure. Cold storage consumes a lot of energy and has a lot of green development space. In the future, the positioning of "multi-functional, intelligent and green" cold storage will be more in line with the development needs of the market.

Energy saving and environmental protection to create high-quality cold storage buildings

Creating high-quality products is the key to meeting customer needs. In order to achieve this goal, wiskind attaches great importance to product design, materials, processes, quality management and other aspects to ensure the high quality and reliability of products. Wiskind and international chemical giant BASF have jointly developed professional cold storage thermal insulation solutions to enable continuous industry development and product innovation.

Wiskind and BASF jointly developed a new generation of polyurethane PIR sandwich insulation board, using the international advanced six-component online foaming technology, through efficient foaming and surface material fully bonded to form uninterrupted heat shielding, effectively blocking heat conduction, insulation performance is excellent. Suitable for -170℃ ~+100℃ operating temperature, advanced fluoropentane foaming process, better protect the Earth's ozone layer from destruction, help achieve a more sustainable future.

Elastopir® high performance thermal insulation material is a new generation polyurethane-PU rigid foam composite system developed on the basis of PIR. Wiskind uses this core material to make cold storage insulation board, fire performance is more excellent, to meet the latest standards for B1 foam core material in China, to meet the market demand for stronger fire performance composite board; With higher energy efficiency and overall cost savings, it can help customers create energy-efficient, safe and durable industrial buildings and cold warehouses.

Efficient automation ensures quality

With the continuous upgrading of polyurethane foaming production lines, its manufacturing process has become more advanced and more automated, which can not only greatly reduce production costs, but also significantly improve product quality and performance.

Wiskind introduced the OMS sandwich plate automatic production line in Italy, with a total length of 320 meters and a double track of 42 meters. The ultra-long double track provides sufficient curing reaction time for polyurethane foam, greatly improving the bonding and forming properties of the plate and ensuring product quality. At the same time, the 26-meter super-long cold bed independently designed by wiskind can fully cool the plate for up to 3 hours, which can completely release the preheating and stress of the plate, effectively improve the stability and texture of the plate, and can meet the extreme engineering challenges.

Brief summary

In recent years, with the change of people's consumption concept, the demand for refrigerated and frozen food is increasing. Cold chain logistics infrastructure construction is constantly catching up, the number of refrigerated vehicles is growing rapidly, the cold chain logistics network is increasingly perfect, cold chain enterprises are accelerating the intelligent and automated construction of cold storage, the future demand for cold storage in China will continue to expand. Wiskind is determined to create a new benchmark for cold chain industry infrastructure, constantly innovate cold storage design, inject new vitality into the development of cold chain logistics, and meet the growing needs of the people for a better life.