Jet Precoolers Now Cooling 8,000 Tons of Fresh Produce per Day

(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA)

The Jet-Ready Precooler, from Global Cooling Inc., is a one of a kind, complete, and portable Precooling tunnel. Jet-Ready Precoolers help to quickly remove field heat from fresh fruit, vegetables, and floral. They are also being used to batch quick thaw and temper (BQT,) for products such as frozen guacamole and Philadelphia steak sandwich meat.

“In the past two years,” according to Jet inventor and Global CEO Jim Still, “we’ve added more customers in California, Washington, Florida, Texas, Tennessee, the Dominican Republic, Chile, and a number of other states and countries. The concept of a Precooler as “personal equipment” – for logistic and tax-management purposes, as opposed to “real property” – permanently attached to your building structure, is really catching on. We are in the right place at the right time with the right product.”

According to Paul Esvelt, Production Manager at tree fruit giant Stemilt Growers, “we cut our packed cherry cooling time to 2 hours from 12 hours, that is huge! Just because Global’s Jet Coolers are portable, don’t make the mistake of thinking they are somehow weak or don’t measure up. Our six Jets are moving about five-times as much air per unit compared with the 32 fan units we used to use.” During Wenatchee cherry season, which starts in a few weeks, Stemilt’s Jet Precoolers will be cooling nearly 800 tons of fruit every day.

“I can say based on our experience with the Jet units everything Stemilt is claiming is true. We have had excellent results with Grapes, Blueberries and Avocado’s. We have also used them for drying Onions,” said Rusty Lucca, of Lucca Cold Storage in Vineland, NJ, the east coast’s largest and most capable 3PL.

“Our Jet Precoolers are made in America,” explained Vice President James J. Still, “right here in Philadelphia at the Philly Navy Yard business park. All of our components are the best that money can buy, and our portables are amazingly powerful, we consistently outperform bunker wall systems time after time.”

“We were just looking at our customer list last week,” said Jim Still, “and the number of Jets in use surprised me. So we started adding up all the capacity of all the Jets, if they were all running at one time, like at this time of year here in North America. Most users only have one or two Jets, but several have as many as six.”

“Then we added in our Rapid-Cool customers,” continued James J. Still, “the one-, two-, and three-tier ultra high airflow precoolers. When we ran the totals at one ton per pallet, even I was surprised!”

The Jet and Rapid-Cool precoolers have a combined capacity of 8,132 tons of produce precooling capacity. “We included our South American equipment,” said Jim Still, “even though they are probably not running at this time of year. But they could be, if they re-cooled apples or pears after removing the fruit from Controlled Atmosphere and packing them out.”

Global’s Jet Precoolers also are becoming ever more valuable in areas where there are droughts and water shortages, making water cooling unsustainable. “The Jets cool so fast, because of their high airflow,” commented James J. Still, “they can almost be considered as semi-vacuum coolers.”

Jet Precooler customers have successfully used the units to cool every commodity attempted so far, with the lone exception being crates of corn. The list of can-do’s includes berries, apples, cherries, mangoes, avocados, flowers, jackfruit, papaya, bananas, herbs, lettuce, bell peppers, cucumbers, eggplant, squash, root stocks, jalapenos, and hops.

For more information, see www.PreCoolers.net. Or eMail to: [email protected]. Or call 1-610-248-9800. Jim Still, Founder/President/CVO, Global Cooling Inc.