As a signatory of the “Green Deal Cooling for the Climate”, EQUANS equips 13 Aldi supermarkets with a CO₂-neutral cooling solution.
Green Deals are agreements between (private) partners and the Flemish government to develop sustainable initiatives together without jeopardising the competitiveness of companies. The “Green Deal for a climate-friendly cooling installation” is the ninth Green Deal in Flanders. As a specialist in industrial and commercial refrigeration, EQUANS is a partner in this Green Deal.
What are Green Deals?
Green Deals are agreements between (private) partners and the Flemish government to develop sustainable initiatives together without jeopardising the competitiveness of companies. The “Green Deal for a climate-friendly cooling installation” is the ninth Green Deal in Flanders. As a specialist in industrial and commercial refrigeration, EQUANS is a partner in this Green Deal.
CO₂-neutral cooling solution
With the natural CO₂ cooling system developed by our teams, sustainable cooling has been part of the palette of low-carbon solutions EQUANS has been offering already for many years. In Belgium, most supermarkets and food outlets work with fluorinated greenhouse gases (F-gases). These fluorinated gases are extremely harmful to the climate. The solution developed by EQUANS makes it possible to make shops more environmentally friendly, regardless of their size.
13 ALDI supermarkets
In order to achieve its environmental objectives, the hard discounter announced in March 2021 its intention to have a natural CO₂ cooling system installed in the majority of its shops. This year it is 8 Aldi Belgium supermarkets that will be equipped with this CO₂ refrigeration system custom designed by EQUANS. After the first installation in 2017, followed by 4 more sites in 2020, this brings to 13 the number of supermarkets equipped with our refrigeration system. And this is just the beginning…
General energy system
Using a natural refrigerant such as CO₂ provides significant savings on a supermarket’s energy bill. An advantage that is all the greater because, to improve the efficiency of the equipment, our teams go well beyond the installation of the refrigeration plant. CO₂ cooling of course, but also heating of the entire floor space based on a CO₂ heat recovery/production process, ventilation, delivery of cooling furniture and cold rooms, etc. At Aldi Belgium, the supermarkets monitored by EQUANS Refrigeration benefit from a standardised “Aldi – EQUANS” solution which has been the subject of a specific study to guarantee a complete, made-to-measure, plug and play solution, all designed, manufactured and installed by our specialists in the workshop and on site.