^{_{Food industry achievement:}}CLC 10 side-mounted air conditioners, for ADIAL

Plug & Play air conditioner series for the French pizza kiosk specialist

While the COVID-19 period has impacted the pizza vending machine market, the underlying trend was already there, and has only grown since.

Among the manufacturers in this sector, ADIAL stands out as an expert in the design and marketing of automated kiosks for food dispensing.

The partnership between ADIAL and EURODIFROID began with a double challenge:

Completely redesign the “refrigeration” part of the dispenser to develop a “Plug & Play” solution (and thus avoid long and costly refrigeration installations);
And to support a ramp-up in production by industrializing the manufacturing process (standardizing the required models as much as possible and planning production batches for the year).

A few years later, nearly 1500 CLC 10 air conditioners were manufactured (up to 60 units produced in some months!) and put into service worldwide.

A product easy to integrate

Because these devices may be exposed to harsh conditions, their design aims to be as efficient and robust as possible, including in particular:

Robust and compact stainless steel chassis, available in right-hand or left-hand versions upon request;
Suction is located at the bottom and discharge at the top;
A refrigeration circuit with an R1234yf refrigerant compressor (HFO category with low GWP, therefore much less harmful to the environment than its predecessors R134a or R515b) with a thermostatic expansion valve;
A copper tube evaporator with aluminum fins, treated with Heresite (an anti-corrosive coating based on high-resistance resins with chemical inertness);
One axial fan regulated by a manual speed controller;
One hot gas injection valve (which limits low pressure and reduces compressor power when maintaining the set temperature);
Alternatively, a dual high/low pressure switch with automatic reset.

To industrialize and maintain high quality

Furthermore, we are constantly improving our manufacturing process: monitoring non-conformities, improving assembly gauges, securing the progress lines…

All this while keeping in mind the standards required in the agri-food industry sector: compliance with and evolution of standards, user feedback…

As you can see, everything has been taken into account to guarantee the freshness of the ingredients and the smooth operation of the kiosk, 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.

Supporting the deployment

Such an industrial partnership also deserves a commitment to “service”: it is therefore with professionalism that our technicians intervene on certain devices (for updates or fixes).

This field support allows us to benefit from valuable feedback that provides valuable lessons for future product improvements.

So, for you, will it be more of a “four cheese” or a “margherita”?