Established with a capital of eur 3,7 ($4m), Geneglace will be solely dedicated to the construction of GENEGLACE ice systems.
The latest GENEGLACE developments have been designed to meet the needs of supermarkets and hypermarkets. Automated ice systems have been developed capable of producing, storing, dispensing, transporting and delivering the ice, meaning a fish manager can prepare a display counter in a few minutes. This is done by delivering 'on tap' ice from a remote ice plant.
Fish display on Geneglace flake
ice
at Quinnsworth store in Ireland.
On the subject of GENEGLACE's on board flake ice machines, Stéphane J.
Brenot, manager at Geneglace explains how they work:
The large heat exchange surface area of the flake ice allows it to quickly cool the fish
as it is brought out of the water and to maintain it until landing at the ideal
temperature of 0 deg C,' he says.
The machines installed by GENEGLACE for this purpose in many Atlantic harbours are large industrial units (20-50t per day) with high-energy efficiencies (in the range of 60 kWh of electrical consumption per tonne per day). In 2000, GENEGLACE developed the world's largest ice machine (model F2000, 50t/day on one drum) just to fulfil this need.
Frigofance has built GENEGLACE ice machines in Bouguenais, France, since 1978. All the GENEGLACE equipment and staff have now shifted to GENEGLACE sas, the autonomous subsidiary that is continuing the activity, says Pierre Brisset, the company's overseas sales manager.