Company Introduction
MAYEKAWA SOUTH
- Established: 1 March 2014
(Formerly trading as Mycomagent – Cooling Options cc since 2001) - The Mycom brand has been present in the South African market for over 35 years.
Office:
Unit 3, West End, Prime Park, Printers Way, Montague Gardens, Cape Town
Managing Director: Spiro Mitchell
National Sales Manager: Shaun Ballantyne
Business:
Sales, product support, and plant design of Mycom industrial refrigeration compressors and other Mycom equipment, serving the following industries:
- Meat
- Fruit
- Vegetable
- Beverage
- Logistics
- Fishing
- Mining
Global Presence:
- Offices in Japan: 60
- Plants in Japan: 3
- Research centers in Japan: 2
- Overseas offices: 93
- Overseas plants: 6 (in 36 countries)
Criteria for Selecting Air Barriers in Refrigeration Doors
- Safety
- Reliability
- Efficiency
- Effectiveness (unmatched with other systems)
Understanding Air Exchange in Refrigeration Doors
What Happens When a Refrigeration Door Opens?
- Air is exchanged between the inside and outside environments.
Implications of Air Exchange
- Leak of cold air
- Infiltration load
Factors Increasing Cold Air Leak and Infiltration Load
- Opening time
- Doorway size
- Thermal gradient between inside and outside
- External absolute humidity
How Thermo Shutter Addresses These Issues
- Reduces air exchange regardless of the above factors.
Key Selection Criteria for Air Barriers
- Safety
- Efficiency
- Price
- Reliability
- Easy assembly
- Preventive maintenance
- Spare parts cost
- Technical service
- Spare parts availability
- Energy consumption
- Other priorities
Prioritizing Criteria
- Safety
- Protecting people and the environment is always the first priority.
- Reliability
- Ensuring continuous production.
- Efficiency
- Price
The product must be competitive, reliable, efficient, and safe.
Other important factors:
- Technical service
- Spare parts service
- Spare parts availability
Basic Pyramid of Priorities:
- Price
- Efficiency
- Reliability
- Safety
Thermo Shutter: How It Meets the Priorities
1. Safety
- Stainless steel structure
- Reduces the possibility of accidents during transit
- Replaces the use of plastic curtains
- Eliminates the accumulation of ice on the floor
- 100% visibility
2. Reliability
- Speed control by frequency inverter
- Low speed and high airflow
- Synchronized with door openings
- No preventive maintenance required
3. Efficiency
- Reduces exchanged air during openings
- Aluminum fans with laminar airflow
- Low energy consumption (approx. 0.1 kWh)
- 0.75% efficacy
- Reduces duration and consumption of defrost cycles
- Optimizes evaporator operation
- Reduces infiltration load and cold air leak
4. Price
- Approx. €30/year (0.12 €/kWh x 250 days/year) in energy costs
When to Contact MAYEKAWA
Contact us if you have:
- Useful width > 3 meters
- Useful height > 5 meters
- Slow, broken, or unusable refrigeration door
- Door continuously open
- Use of plastic curtains
- External room or hall without cooling system
- Use of heated air in the doorway
- Different airstreams than natural convection, due to:
- Evaporators on the door
- Doors nearby, facing, or above
For more information, contact MAYEKAWA SOUTH.