Fremont, Calif. – Oct. 14, 2010 – Purfresh, a provider of clean technologies that purify, protect, and preserve our food and water, today announced the release of its Purfresh® Multi-Room Control Box (MRCB) technology. Integrated with Purfresh Cold Storage and Purfresh’s Intellipur® software analytics, this ground-breaking innovation enables a single ozone generator to precisely distribute and control ozone in up to 16 cold storage rooms. Distributing the power and advanced intelligence of Purfresh ozone generators across multiple locations, ensures retailers, distributors, and international cold storage operators can cost effectively take advantage of ozone to enhance food safety, reduce decay, and control ripening throughout their facilities.
“Industrial-strength ozone solutions have traditionally been designed for facilities with rooms that are a few hundred thousand cubic feet in size—which makes those solutions impractical for facilities with banks of smaller rooms. This reality limited the ability for countless produce storage facilities around the world to leverage the natural purification powers of ozone,” said Mr. Andy Smith, vice president of products for Purfresh. “In response to increased demand from this industry segment, we developed the MRCB—a cost effective solution optimized for the unique needs of agricultural environments that monitors and delivers ozone to many rooms without compromising worker safety or reliability.”
Each MRCB is capable of monitoring and delivering ozone to four or eight rooms, and two MRCBs can be configured with a single Purfresh generator to deliver ozone to a total of 16 rooms. Each MRCB is equipped with a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) that accurately controls and distributes low doses of ozone through specially designed ozone resistant valves. The PLC also communicates directly with the main generator to execute 15 unique safety alarms to keep both workers and produce safe.
“Unmatched in the market, the MRCB sets a new standard in the ozone equipment space and enables Purfresh to expand our market reach with a sophisticated, yet competitive offering for retail, distribution centers, and cold storage operations of all sizes,” said Mr. David Bouchard, general manager, post-harvest and transport solutions for Purfresh.
Specifically engineered for refrigerated storage environments, the patent-pending Purfresh Cold Storage technology ensures an unprecedented level of food safety and quality by combining a scalable, plug-and-play ozone-based solution with Purfresh Intellipur online analytics—a powerful information service that includes environmental sensing, web-based monitoring, alerting, data reporting, and analysis along with remote control and diagnostics. These state-of-the-art technologies allow growers, produce distributors, and retailers to enhance their food safety measures and effectively maintain post-harvest quality by regulating the ripening process and reducing decay all without the use of harsh, undesirable chemicals.
To learn more about the MRCB, visit Purfresh in booth 1153 at the PMA Fresh Summit to be held in Orlando, Fla., Oct. 16-18, 2010.
Source: Purfresh Inc.
