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Coca-Cola to use Sanyo CO2 coolers at next Olympics |
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Sanyo Electric will supply 5,000 newly developed CO2 cassettes with an integrated Energy Management System to Coca-Cola. The beverage giant thus confirms it will only use fluorocarbon-free drink coolers at next year’s Olympics Games in Beijing.
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2007-10-31
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Sanyo will deliver the new CO2 (R744) cassettes, jointly developed in cooperation with The Coca-Cola Company, next March, in time for the Summer Olympics in China, set to start in August 2008. The CO2 cassettes will be used in Coca-Cola's drink coolers at all Olympic venues, helping the company to fulfill its promise made in September this year to install only cooling equipment that does not use hydrofluorocarbon (HFCs), a potent greenhouse gas.
"We hope this will be seen as an important step towards the creation of a commercially viable market for climate-friendly commercial refrigeration and that a wider sector of the industry will follow our example in fighting climate change," said Mr. Salvatore Gabola, Director of Coca-Cola's Worldwide Stakeholder Relations.
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For the Beijing Olympics, Sanyo will supply 5,000 units, but Gabola already announced that Coca-Cola plans to “purchase many more units using this technology, as we move towards early commercial roll-out in strategic markets around the world." Last year, Coca-Cola had already placed more than 3,000 CO2 beverage coolers at the FIFA World Cup in Germany, and the Winter Olympics in Turin.
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Features of Sanyo's CO2 cassettes
According to Sanyo’s calculations, during operation the cassettes will reduce energy use by 16% through a Rotary 2-stage compressor technology that is able to disperse the increased pressure while keeping the compressor at low levels of vibration and noise. Integrated into the Energy Management System owned by Coca-Cola, the cassette will further improve energy efficiency by up to 35%. On top of that the CO2 unit can easily replace HFC-134a units as it matches the size and interfaces of cassettes using fluorocarbon.
Sanyo's Senior Vice President, Akira Kan, is therefore sure that its CO2 compressors "will certainly be a key component in the future of cold energy equipment."
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More information:
› Press Release Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. - 29 October 2007
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