BiofreshTech, the revolution in cold logistics

[We are used to seeing technological revolutions constantly, but the one we bring you today is especially striking.
The Valencian company BiofreshTech, has created a new technology that will revolutionize logistics for food, medicines and organs that need refrigeration.
It is the first time that a climate control system without electrical connection has been introduced on the market.
Some have already baptized it as the “take away refrigeration with 6 days of autonomy”.

BiofreshTech creates an automated, cordless refrigerator

The list of applications is long: precooked food, medicines, transplant organs, frozen and refrigerated food, etc.
It offers the possibility of maintaining its appropriate conservation temperature, energetically autonomous for more than 5 days.
This is an innovative technological system of passive climate control.
The transport sector now has a tool that maintains the temperature in ranges of -20-55ºC.
All designed by the chemical engineer Javier Guillén.

“Some products require refrigeration for transport and until now depended on an energy source, which is usually the vehicle’s engine, and the impossibility of ensuring a constant temperature, which conditions that sometimes breaks the cold chain and puts food safety, health and compliance with European regulations at risk.”

Prototype and Patents

This system has two patents: on the one hand, the chemical formulation to create a product with properties that allow cold storage.
This gel, he stresses, is harmless to health and non-polluting.
BiofreshTech manufactures its product at the company’s facilities in Catarroja (Valencia).
The assembly of the refrigeration machinery, however, is outsourced to different industrial partners. In addition, the company holds an international patent for the refrigerated system itself.
This is a technology that monitors the temperature of the refrigerator in question in real time.
This allows it to stabilize in an automated way, thanks to sensors that upload the information of the degrees ºC to the cloud.
By simply connecting to the system, it already knows whether to increase or decrease the temperature.
Thus, the user does not need to charge the device electrically and it will regulate itself automatically without having to connect during the trip or its use.
This entire complex system has geolocation of the device through sensors for the traceability of the device.
For example, the logistics operator can monitor how the temperature of the refrigerator behaves in real time.
From its temperature to its exact location, through the time it has been open and the cold recovery it has needed after opening.

Energy saving, the joint need of the sector

Luis Frías, CEO founder of Asmen, is co-founder of BiofresTech together with 6 other partners.
All of them come from the logistics business sector.
They were aware that the sector was missing a mechanism with these characteristics to transport food and pharmaceuticals.
The inspiration came from the need for ships to deliver food on the high seas outside international waters.
Finally, they came together under the firm BiosfresTech as a solution.
This ingenious idea is capable of being applied to the interior of a refrigerator, a cold room, a vehicle or a building.

“The system is based on cold storage using a chemical product that is harmless to health and non-polluting” (Javier Guillén).

The technology is assumed for each van:

1. Energy savings of more than 50%.
2. Fuel savings of 20 to 25%.
3. A consequent reduction of CO2 emissions estimated at 3.5 tons per year.
4. This technology is practically soundproof and does not require the vehicle’s engine to be kept running, a very relevant aspect for supermarkets located in the city that need to unload at night.
   This avoids disturbing the neighbors.

At the moment it has been incorporated in refrigeration chambers (fixed and portable) and in delivery vehicles.
But companies in the logistics sector with Pharma work with it, as we do in Asmen Tipsa Valencia.
We have incorporated 300 coolers with BiofreshTech technology into our network.
For the future, we are testing a concept for a large distribution retailer in Valencia and also with Asmen. Being a logistics operator of reference in national food distribution requires adapting and incorporating elements to provide the best service at your fingertips.

“The reception in the retail and food distribution sectors has been very positive because we have solved many problems for companies. Ensuring a constant temperature that avoids breaking the cold chain and that also means great savings for companies, are really impacting factors, in addition to favoring temperature-controlled capillary delivery with electric vehicles,” says Rafael Matamoros, CEO and co-founder of BiofreshTech.

 

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