UK To Work With India On Creating A Cold Food Chain

LONDON: A UK-based company has plans to roll out clean cold technology in India to move perishable goods efficiently from producer to consumer and help the country tackle its food crisis by reducing food loss.

Dearman is working on developing new technologies to achieve movement of perishable produce through an integrated chain of refrigerated transport and refrigerated storage, broadly referred to as a cold chain.

"At present, India has approximately 31 million tonnes of cold chain capacity, which is vast, but only approximately 9,000 refrigerated vehicles," said Dearman CEO Toby Peters.

"That imbalance has to be rectified because when looking to feed a population, to maximise the economic return for producers and to supply vital medicines, the objective is to move goods efficiently from production to consumer, and that requires a network of vehicles," he said.

"Dearman is working with institutions in the UK, including the newly announced Energy Research Accelerator, to not only develop new technologies but to establish a blueprint for manufacturing facilities which can then be established around the world. We hope to have a field trial of our zero emission transport refrigeration system in India next year, leading to an ever greater presence in the Indian market thereafter," he said.
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