Forced cooling

Initially we built rooms in the conventional way, but in the course of years we improved and adapted our techniques and systems due to our experience. Nowadays banana boxes are mostly delivery according to the "tight-stack" method, which means that 8 layers of 6 boxes (totally 48 boxes) are stacked on a pallet. This requires forced cooling.

 Worldwide expert

We built over 80 banana ripening facilities in the last 12 years, besides the extensions which we executed on the existing ripening facilities. The ripening rooms have been provided with different systems (1 tier and 2 tier systems) which are all suitable for the "tight stack" method. Herewith we are a worldwide expert in the field of banana ripening systems. Not only in the Netherlands, but far outside the borders, even in Asia, we built ripening facilities. Interested in a reference list of companies where we built ripening facilities, please click here.

The construction of the ripening rooms with insulated panels.

The delivery and mounting of special gastight doors.

The design, delivery and mounting of the central refrigeration installation, which can be a DX (direct expansion) or a water/glycol installation.

Testing and putting into operation of the complete installation

The delivery of the complete ripening room, including:

* a galvanized steel construction, in case of a 2 tier ripening room

* the ceiling system, depending on the type of system these are airbags or electrical tarpaulins

* especially developed evaporators for the ripening of bananas, including heating

* concrete borders as protection for the side and back wall (also conduction for the pallets)

* suction walls and suction ventilators, depending on the system

* the design and realization of all electrical supplies

* the process controllers, whether connected with the central computer or not

* automatic gas injection (C2H4) per room

* ventilation of the ripening rooms