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As the refrigerated and frozen food industry continues its rapid growth, managers of cold storage facilities are increasingly looking for ways to keep pace without sacrificing safety or efficiency. Unfortunately, more shipments coming and going means more openings of freezer, cooler and loading dock doors, resulting in more opportunities for expensive conditioned air to escape and and/or for products to degrade.
“Hey, it fell off the back of a truck…” While this statement has been uttered sarcastically by everyone from movie mobsters to Homer Simpson, it is no laughing matter to manufacturers, shippers and logistics executives. According to CargoNet, “supply chain risk events” (aka, cargo theft) increased more than 15% last year, with an estimated $223 million stolen across the U.S. and Canada in 2022.
Thanks to America’s appetite for animal proteins, the nation’s meat and poultry distribution centers are larger and busier than ever before. With more shipments coming and going, loading dock and freezer/cooler doors are opened more often, resulting in more opportunities to break the cooler-to-trailer cold chain or for pests and outside heat to degrade product. Energy costs are another consideration, as open doors allow expensive cooled air to escape.
Thanks to America’s appetite for animal proteins, the nation’s meat and poultry distribution centers are larger and busier than ever before. With more shipments coming and going, loading dock and freezer/cooler doors are opened more often, resulting in more opportunities to break the cooler-to-trailer cold chain or for pests and outside heat to degrade product. Energy costs are another consideration, as open doors allow expensive cooled air to escape.
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