Various traceability systems can be integrated in our insulated containers.

Classic Identification: fleet number, bar code, …
Electronic Identification technology: intelligent tag, chips, using RFID...

According to the level of automation this allows recording of many indicators to help logistics management optimization, in accordance with HACCP procedures

Traceability of containers and distribution:
- History of cleaning
- Container Identification
- Route tracking in the warehouse
- Flow tracking during distribution
- History of maintenance

Traceability of Cold chain :

Tracking and recording of temperature inside the container
Tracking of container door openings/closings
Tracking of cooling agent (refrigerant): weight of dry ice, quantity of eutectic plates


LOGISTICS

The development of the insulated container since the end of the sixties is linked to the frozen products market development. At this time, to ensure the quality of deliveries from the RDCS to the stores, the use of insulated containers became essential. It allowed transport in standard vehicles together with the ambient groceries, avoiding the organization of specific and expensive deliveries rounds.
Loaded with foodstuffs in the cold room of the RDC and unloaded to the displays at the store, the insulated container minimizes the handling costs at the delivery point, avoids investments with refrigerated docks or cold rooms at the departure and arrival points, and ensures a perfect mastery of the cold chain during all different stages of the logistics chain.

A container is a maximum 2m3 box, made with insulated walls, generally using polyurethane insulation, in order to slow down the heat exchange.

Dedicated logistics for temperature controlled products organized using insulated containers is now well known as sure, safe and efficient.
The major logistics operators have extended their use to chilled products and integrated such a solution in their HACCP procedures.
Many others business sectors have understood the advantages and include in their logistics operations this solution such as institutions and hospitals to carry meal trays from the main kitchen to consumption places, pharmaceutical retailers for their deliveries of sensitive products, restaurant chains for the wholesale supply of their restaurants.

CRYOGENICS

Mobile and independent containers with cryogenic refrigeration offer a lot of possibilities, most of the time unrecognized. Dry Ice is well known as a cooling agent for frozen foodstuffs, and during recent years this application for containers has significantly evolved.

The insulated container is fitted with a Siber System® Tank designed to receive the cooling agent. Dry Ice is the result of the release of liquid CO2 in air, and as soon as it has been produced, the Dry Ice starts to sublimate at a temperature of –78.5°C and provides a cold energy capacity of 150 K/Cal per Kilo.
In the case of the Siber System®, the release of the liquid CO2 is done inside the Siber System® Tank. The conversion efficiency of liquid to solid is 44%, better than in any other cryogenic application such as blast freezer tunnel or cold room.

The bulk tank of liquid CO2, located outside the building, is linked to the Siber Station gun using insulated pipes. This gun has a double purpose:-
- inject the exact quantity of Dry Ice required according to the journey
- exhaust the residual gases produced during the release.

The Siber System® Station can be located in a closed room.

The Siber Station is managed by computer automation, calculating the exact dose
of Dry Ice to be injected, according the parameters of the consignment :
chilled (+2/+4°C) or frozen (-18°C) product temperature, ambient(s) temperature(s), including waiting time on docks and at point of arrival, transit time from the cold room to the display, and so on... This adjusted case by case injection optimizes the energy cost.

The standard Siber System® is designed and calibrated for a 24 hours distribution with high ambient temperatures.

Today, more than 30 000 containers fitted with Siber System® Tanks are in use at more than 20 client locations all over the world.