Integrated food retail solutions from case to cloud
Danfoss partners with retailers globally to enhance food retail solutions that seamlessly connect supermarket refrigeration systems—from case to cloud. Danfoss has taken efficient cooling and HVAC solutions to the next level through constant development of high-performance technologies and service concepts.
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Our solutions are designed to improve efficiency and support the journey towards net-zero food retail
Real solutions. Real results
Danfoss Smart Store reimagines what energy efficiency can look like for supermarkets in the 21st century. Our specialists are ready to assist you in selecting the ideal supermarket refrigeration solutions, including solutions for display cases, pack and rack, heat recovery, HVAC, and store monitoring and management.
Discover how Danfoss Smart Store solutions can optimize your store refrigeration for peak efficiency.
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The Danfoss Smart Store in Denmark cut emissions by up to 68% using natural refrigerants, heat recovery, and solar power. See how innovation is driving greener food retail in the full report.
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Solutions
Explore our energy-efficient and reliable refrigeration systems to advance your supermarket refrigeration towards net-zero.
Your refrigeration system is the natural place to look for energy efficiency gains. To unlock that potential, you need a controller, expansion valve, and high accuracy sensors that are smart enough to make the technology work together—and a system manager that can help you see and control the bigger picture.
Danfoss has pioneered CO₂ refrigeration systems for more than 10 years. Learn more about our CO₂ refrigeration solutions for supermarkets here.
In air flow and indoor air quality-related applications, condition monitoring functionality improves system uptime and competitiveness by preventing issues before they occur.
Align your heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration systems, to save money, safeguard stock, and reduce your environmental impact. Integrated solutions unlock the full potential of each application and increases the efficiency of the entire system.
Danfoss offers highly efficient components optimized for semi plug-in refrigeration systems. The components are designed to provide the lowest total cost of ownership, while at the same time reducing the carbon footprint of your supermarket refrigeration system.
Small format and convenience stores face unique challenges: limited space, high energy use, and the need to stay competitive in fast-moving markets. That is why we’ve developed Smart Store To-Go: innovative, plug-and-play C store solutions that simplify operations and deliver reliable convenience store monitoring solutions. Whether you run one location or multiple sites, our smart shop solutions help you improve efficiency, cut energy costs, and unlock new opportunities to engage your customers.
Storeview Web (SvW) is a software platform that offers a secure and modern user interface for full web access to the AK-SM800A and other selected legacy front-ends.
Welcome to Alsense IoT food retail services, the newest cloud solution from Danfoss climate solutions for supermarkets and food retail applications. Our service offering is a sustainable, scalable and secure portal for optimizing the performance of food retail operations. It’s the technology you want to easily reach the efficiencies you need.
Ensuring food safety and energy efficiency
Supermarkets rely on efficient refrigeration systems to keep products fresh, maintain safety standards, and reduce energy costs. Installing an effective refrigeration system means balancing reliability, energy efficiency, and long-term operational costs.
Our solutions ensure optimal temperatures and food safety, minimize downtime, and reduce food loss. Experience improved energy efficiency and refrigerant solutions that align with your journey towards net-zero. Watch our food retail solutions playlist.
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Find out more about our wide range of reliable and high-performance components for top store efficiency.
CTR 3-way heat reclaim valve is designed to allow full proportional control of the surplus heat from compressor pack into the heat exchanger of transcritical heat reclaim solutions, securing availability of heat and hot water. The CTR valve prevents pressure peaks eliminating costly system down-time and the risk of insufficient heat supply for store heating and hot water, regardless of installation size.
The Danfoss Multi Ejector Solution™ ensures that transcritical CO₂ applications for retailers become energy efficient in any climate.
The CCMT is a highly reliable electric pressure regulating valve optimized for transcritical CO₂ refrigeration. The valve has versatile applications in the transcritical system.
For robust, efficient, and responsive control, Danfoss world-renowned, ADAP Kool® expansion valves, AKV, cover applications ranging from lower capacity commercial applications with CO2 and HFC refrigerant to large industrial applications with ammonia as a refrigerant.
Danfoss offers a range of compressor and condenser capacity controls for use in food retail, in compact systems as well as in large power packs.
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We’re proud to announce the official launch of the AK-CC25 Pro — our newest ADAP-KOOL® controller, built to meet the evolving needs of today’s commercial refrigeration systems.
Designed for plug-in and remote TXV refrigerated display cases, the AK-CC25 Pro brings together next-level flexibility, intuitive operation, and intelligent system integration. Whether for new installations or retrofits, this controller delivers the functionality, ease of use, and reliability you’ve come to expect from Danfoss — now with built-in Bluetooth® for a truly seamless setup.
Danfoss is proud to announce its participation at EuroShop 2026, taking place February 22–26 in Düsseldorf, Germany. Visitors will find us in Hall 16, Booth D59, where we invite the food retail industry to “Go Beyond” and explore how integrated cooling and heating solutions, and advanced controls can transform store efficiency, sustainability, and profitability.
Case stories
A busy Danish supermarket reduced its annual heating bill by 89.7% and its CO₂ footprint by 6.7 tons a year by making use of the waste heat from its refrigeration system.
A Danish supermarket fulfills 95 percent of its heating demand from its own cooling display cases. The chain has installed Danfoss heat recovery units and managed to halve its CO2 footprint in five years. Imagine if this was done in all supermarkets in the world.
Danfoss Enterprise Services in Baltimore delivers real-time insight to 14,000 supermarket operators and the demand is growing.
The supermarket aktiv & irma in Oldenburg, Germany, has pressed the start-button to a solution enabling it to store and generate electricity. The grocery store’s manager calls it a leap forward in energy supply. Danfoss and SMA have helped make it happen. Learn how.
A stronger environmental profile and energy savings of approx. 30% from a cooling solution that can be expanded as needed. These are the results so far for Danish organic food company Aarstiderne. Since Q1 2018, the company’s facilities at Barritskov, Denmark, have relied on a CO₂ cooling system with Danfoss components delivered by refrigeration installer company JF Køleteknik A/S.
Danfoss offers a complete portfolio of gas and liquid ejectors that provide significant benefits in CO2 refrigeration applications. Here we take a closer look at these offerings: the Multi Ejector Low Pressure (LP), the Multi Ejector High Pressure (HP), and the Liquid Ejector (LE). All three ejector products are only available as a complete Multi Ejector Solution™ where the ejector is bundled with the AK-PC 782A pack controller to provide the robust system controls necessary for efficient and reliable operation.
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This year’s UN Food Day is a unique one. While the world is still grappling with pandemic related supply chain challenges, I can’t help but reflect on the state of food transport.
Before digging into the secret of Danfoss adaptive defrost, let’s first take a look at the most common methods of defrosting refrigerated display cases, and why they’re necessary.
If you work in facilities or energy management for a food retailer, change is something you handle every day. When the way we live, work, or shop changes, new food retail technology is close behind.
Around the world, there is little doubt that CO2 is fast becoming food retailers’ refrigerant of choice. At Danfoss alone, we’re currently seeing supermarkets switching to CO2 refrigeration systems at a rate of around 10,000 a year—and that number is growing fast.
In the last few years, supermarkets have made great advances in energy efficiency - reducing both overhead and their environmental impact.
Reducing energy use is valuable, and always will be. But there’s another side to reducing energy costs. Increasingly, the biggest potential saving isn’t only in using less energy; it’s in optimizing how it’s used, and when.
When you stop and think about it, it’s a little strange that supermarkets usually pay to heat their premises and water while their refrigeration system works overtime to move heat energy outside.