A J & E Hall Fusion Commercial Condensing Unit is a key component in a new cooling system at a flourishing Italian ice cream manufacturing business. Gelato.Cool Ltd of Lincoln chose the JEH2-0400-L-3 unit for its walk-in freezer which stores gelato ice cream.

Gelato.Cool needed a new walk-in freezer to cope with the demands of a growing business. The 3.5 sq m freezer is racked out to handle the 4.5 litre Napoli tins in which the ice cream is held but the main challenge for the cooling system is keeping the temperature in the freezer at a constant -22°C for deep life storage. 

Director of Gelato.Cool Mark Weston said: “Reliability and efficiency are important for us and the new Fusion unit works well. It is very quiet, hugely efficient and represents good value for money. It keeps the freezer at -22°C all day and we are very happy. We manufacture the gelato at around -14°C and the ideal serving temperature is -17°C. Our new walk-in freezer allows us to store the gelato at a perfect temperature all year round.”

The freezer was designed and built by Milby Coldrooms of East Goscote, Leicestershire. The company has installed Fusion units for ice cream vendors in the past and understand the demands of the industry. The J & E Hall unit is supplied by AFR Refrigeration of Wandsworth in London.

Milby group managing director Nigel Rodgers said: “It was a turn-key job for us and we came recommended by another customer in the ice cream industry. We were delighted to be offered the chance to build the new freezer room and we have to make sure that the equipment we use is reliable and does all it should. The Fusion unit was our first choice.”

J & E Hall offers an extensive range of medium and low temperature reciprocating and scroll-housed commercial condensing units. Medium temperature scroll condensing units qualify for Enhanced Capital Allowance. This Government scheme allows tax relief for businesses investing in energy efficient projects.

The acoustically-lined Fusion range houses a reciprocating compressor which is fitted with a compressor jacket to further reduce noise.

All the ice cream is made in-house with specially imported machinery from Italy. Gelato.Cool has more than 160 Napoli tins of ice cream in storage containing around 1000 litres of ice cream. Production is demand driven and gelato is manufactured in advance of the summer months to cope with the peak season.

The company supplies ice cream to restaurants, cafes, bars and pubs in the Lincoln area.

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