Food Lion, a division of Ahold Delhaize, has found its first transcritical CO2 installation to be “very successful from a refrigeration standpoint,” though the chain is still evaluating the year-old system’s energy performance, said Wayne Rosa, energy & maintenance manager, Food Lion (Delhaize America Shared Services).
Food Lion, a Salisbury, N.C.-based division of Delhaize America that runs more than 1,100 stores in the southeastern US, has earned the US Environmental Protection Agency’s 2015 platinum-level GreenChill Store Certification at a new store located in Southport, N.C.
End users and manufacturers of natural refrigerant systems are taking a variety of approaches to fill the training void – with better training for customers’ in-house technicians and maintenance contractors identified as particularly crucial.
After a decade-long test of secondary and cascade CO2 equipment, Food Lion is ready to run its first transcritical refrigeration system – in a warm climate, no less. In the cover story of the latest edition of Accelerate America, the company’s Susan Sollenberger and Wayne Rosa explain Food Lion’s journey.
