Storing Perishable Food Produce During Load Shedding – South Africa
Loadshedding is causing and will still cause many food retail businesses in South Africa their very livelihood if the latter do not take steps to protect their perishable food stocks in cold storage from spoiling. Larger supermarket outlets are compelled to spend thousands of rands a day on diesel just to keep their ‘lights on’…
Fresh Produce Cold Storage – Humidity Control vs Ambient Temperature
Food handling professionals at all levels tend to focus exclusively on ambient temperatures when it comes to cold storage of fresh produce. Many a cold room door can be found in a hotel, restaurant, bakery, or conference venue pasted with a Temperature Chart showing daily readings as reflected on the temperature gauge. Temperature gauges very…
Humidity Control Solutions/Products Supplier – South Africa
Polar Africa is a 100% Woman-Owned South African Company that has been around since 2008 offering humidity control products/solutions/services to clients in the following sectors of the economy: Humidity & Airborne Bacteria Control Solutions for: Wine Barrel Cellars (reduce wine barrel evaporation) Butchery Meat Cold Rooms (reduce hanging meat weight losses by up to 3%)…
Humidity control is essential in agricultural pack houses for several reasons. Humidity control is essential in agricultural pack houses to preserve the qualitative condition and shelf life of fresh produce to ensure a farmer’s crops attain a fair market price for their investment and endeavours. Secondly, humidity levels in South Africa vary vastly between wet…
Polar Africa (est 2008) offers humidity control solutions in the following sectors of the economy in South Africa as well as the SADC region: Agriculture – dry fog humidification maintains ideal relative humidity levels in greenhouses, cannabis growing operations, tobacco sheds, packhouses, abattoirs, commercial farmer markets, wine barrel cellars, mushroom farms Manufacturing – dry fog…
Polar Africa is the accredited SADC distributor for the Ikeuchi & Co Ltd (Japan est 1954) range of industrial spray nozzles in the following sectors of the economy: Automotive industrial spray nozzles (spray painting, coating, & cleaning) Food and Beverage industrial spray nozzles (coating, cleaning & sanitizing equipment, food processing) Chemical and Petrochemical industrial spray…
Electricity bills are due to rise in South Africa by between 18% and 21% in July 2023. This will be another challenge for the retail supermarket and butchery sectors of the economy along with having to deal with electricity load-shedding costs and challenges as well. One way to reduce electricity costs would be to install…
Electrostatic discharge (ESD) in the electronic manufacturing and paper printing industry can cause havoc on the production floor if not controlled. Polar Africa (South Africa) was recently appointed SADC distributor for Ikeuchi’s range of Dry Fog Humidification Systems (and Industrial Spray Nozzles). Given Ikeuchi’s many years of experience in the electronics manufacturing and paper printing…
Ikeuchi has a long and successful association with hydraulic nozzle development being the first company in the world to insert a ceramic orifice into a spray nozzle. Since then, a range of nozzles, depending on application and purpose, have been entirely manufactured from ceramic material. Ceramic has distinct advantages over standard nozzles in that they…
The specific purpose of pneumatic nozzles is to create a fine droplet spray, even smaller than that which hydraulic nozzles are capable of, by combining a liquid with compressed air either within the inner chamber of a pneumatic nozzle or externally by mixing the liquid and compressed air outside of the orifice of the nozzle…
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Wine Barrel Cellar Humidity Control
Polar Africa’s humidity control solutions procure several benefits for the wine farm/producer, viz. Reducing wine evaporative losses in the order of 8% to 12% p.a. by half – less topping up and more bottom line Slower maturity rate producing higher quality wine than the norm No fungal and mould growth as both technologies utilize ‘dry’…
Butchery Night Blinds
The really shrewd butcher knows how to save money whilst making money! And one way is to install night blinds in/or onto their meat refrigerator display cases. That way, night blinds reduce energy consumption per fridge by 20%. Where a butchery has a large number of refrigerated display cases a store’s total energy bill can…
Supermarket Night Blinds
The really shrewd supermarket retailer knows how to save money whilst making money! And one way is to install night blinds in/or onto refrigerator display cases. That way, night blinds reduce energy consumption per fridge by 20%. Where a supermarket has a large number of refrigerated display cases a store’s total energy bill can be…