Connected food retail solutions from case to cloud
Together with forward-thinking retailers around the world Danfoss has taken sustainable food retail solutions to the next level through constant development of sustainable technologies and service concepts.
Danfoss Food Retail solutions offer high efficient refrigeration systems optimized for CO₂ refrigeration and other natural refrigerants. Danfoss 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.
Danfoss solutions not only ensure the perfect conditions for food in temperature controlled environments, they also help achieve near-zero downtime on store applications in order to improve food safety and reduce food loss.
Less waste. More sense.
How? With Alsense, you’ll be able to easily track refrigeration asset performance, respond to alarms, integrate 24/7 monitoring, reduce energy consumption, and much more — all in one integrated, modern platform.
Food retail industry solutions
Danfoss ADAP-KOOL solutions have been developed based on more than 30 years of close cooperation with the global community of food retailers through and more than 80 years in the HVAC industry. Danfoss continuously develops its portfolio of components, controllers and advanced algorithms with the long-term ambition to create net-zero stores or even stores that give more energy than they take.
As a market leader with more than 50,000 food retail installations worldwide, Danfoss leads the development of integrated food retail refrigeration control solutions. Our experienced food retail specialists are ready to help you finding the right solution for your supermarket.
Features and benefits
Enhanced food safety
Maximized energy efficiency
Natural refrigerant solutions
Connected solutions from case to cloud
Monitoring and management services
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Every day, we are dedicated to make your supermarket just a little smarter
Getting supermarkets to net zero
With the world’s population expected to reach 10 billion people by 2050, sustainable food retail and storage are more important than ever. Yet this is an often-overlooked step in the decarbonization of society.
Related applications
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if (isSmallPicture) { ; } else if (isBigColumns) { } else { }Case controls
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.
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if (isSmallPicture) { ; } else if (isBigColumns) { } else { }CO₂ in food retail
Danfoss has pioneered COâ‚‚ refrigeration systems for more than 10 years. Learn more about our COâ‚‚ refrigeration solutions for supermarkets here.
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if (isSmallPicture) { ; } else if (isBigColumns) { } else { }HVAC integration in supermarkets
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.
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if (isSmallPicture) { ; } else if (isBigColumns) { } else { }Semi plug-in 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.
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if (isSmallPicture) { ; } else if (isBigColumns) { } else { }Smart energy
Energy cost is one of the biggest expenses in the daily operation of your supermarkets. Therefore, retailers increasingly look to enhance the energy efficiency within the stores.
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if (isSmallPicture) { ; } else if (isBigColumns) { } else { }Smart store
The Smart Store solution enhances food safety and brings down the energy bill by integrated and smart control of refrigeration, HVAC, lighting and other applications.
Highlighted products
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if (isSmallPicture) { ; } else if (isBigColumns) { } else { }CTR electric expansion valves, transcritical CO₂
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.
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if (isSmallPicture) { ; } else if (isBigColumns) { } else { }AKV electric expansion valves
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.
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if (isSmallPicture) { ; } else if (isBigColumns) { } else { }CCMT electric regulating valves, transcritical CO₂
The CCMT is a highly reliable electric pressure regulating valve optimized for transcritical COâ‚‚ refrigeration. The valve has versatile applications in the transcritical system.Â
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if (isSmallPicture) { ; } else if (isBigColumns) { } else { }System managers
The system manager is the key component of the intelligent Danfoss ADAP-KOOL® refrigeration system for food retail.
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if (isSmallPicture) { ; } else if (isBigColumns) { } else { }Pack controllers
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.
Case stories
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if (isSmallPicture) { ; } else if (isBigColumns) { } else { }Danish supermarket cuts heating bill and CO₂ footprint with Danfoss Heat Recovery Unit (HRU)
A busy Danish supermarket reduced its annual heating bill by 89.7% and its COâ‚‚ footprint by 6.7 tons a year by making use of the waste heat from its refrigeration system.
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if (isSmallPicture) { ; } else if (isBigColumns) { } else { }Danish supermarkets turned into heat suppliers
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.
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if (isSmallPicture) { ; } else if (isBigColumns) { } else { }They are the eyes and ears of Danfoss
Danfoss Enterprise Services in Baltimore delivers real-time insight to 14,000 supermarket operators and the demand is growing.
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if (isSmallPicture) { ; } else if (isBigColumns) { } else { }A new shade of green for grocery stores
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.
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if (isSmallPicture) { ; } else if (isBigColumns) { } else { }“A real win-win situation!” Danish organic food company reduces climate footprint with CO₂ cooling solution
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.
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if (isSmallPicture) { ; } else if (isBigColumns) { } else { }The Danfoss Multi Ejector range for CO₂ refrigeration: design, applications and benefits
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.
Articles
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if (isSmallPicture) { ; } else if (isBigColumns) { } else { }Modernizing the cold chain to maximize sustainable solutions
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.
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if (isSmallPicture) { ; } else if (isBigColumns) { } else { }The secret behind Danfoss adaptive defrost
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.
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if (isSmallPicture) { ; } else if (isBigColumns) { } else { }5 ways connected monitoring and management systems can save food retailers money right now
Many new kinds of store facility technologies promise to help. Big data, automation, and the Internet of Things (IoT) all have the potential to save food retailers time, money, and energy, while preventing food waste.
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if (isSmallPicture) { ; } else if (isBigColumns) { } else { }Managing operational efficiency in food retail – 5 global trends and how to respond
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.
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if (isSmallPicture) { ; } else if (isBigColumns) { } else { }Why are so many supermarkets now choosing CO₂ refrigeration?
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.
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if (isSmallPicture) { ; } else if (isBigColumns) { } else { }Supermarket energy optimization: why efficiency is only half the story
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.
News
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if (isSmallPicture) { ; } else if (isBigColumns) { } else { }Danfoss launches new aftersales service for BOCK® compressorsMonday, May 27, 2024
The new service – Danfoss RefCare – will build an international network of certified service partners and Danfoss-owned service hubs, capable of providing best-in-class service and maintenance of BOCK® compressors.
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if (isSmallPicture) { ; } else if (isBigColumns) { } else { }Danfoss Sensing Solutions supports the transition to low GWP refrigerants with its new DST Gxxx A2L refrigerant detection sensorsTuesday, January 23, 2024
For over 55 years, Danfoss Sensing Solutions has supplied innovative sensing solutions to HVAC/R system builders around the world. Now, as the industry transitions to low-GWP refrigerants, Danfoss has put its decades of sensing experience to work to design the safest and most accurate A2L refrigerant detection sensor on the market.
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if (isSmallPicture) { ; } else if (isBigColumns) { } else { }ANEO Retail & Danfoss expand “Energy as a Service” offering to Danish food retailersFriday, June 9, 2023
ANEO Retail and Danfoss, the multi-national engineering group, are expanding their collaboration of innovative energy service solution for the food retail industry. After a successful establishment in Sweden, the journey now moves on to Denmark.
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