Blue Star to expand its commercial refrigeration footprint
The company also announced the launch of its new touchless storage water coolers and softpush bottled water dispensers.
Hyderabad: Air conditioning and commercial refrigeration company, Blue Star, with presence in pharmaceutical and healthcare segments such as modular cold rooms, medical freezers, ultra-low temperature freezers, pharma refrigerators, and blood bank refrigerators, launched a new range of commercial refrigeration products and solutions which are ideal for storing vaccines.
These comprise specifically designed, temperature controlled refrigerators and transporters, which are integral for building a robust ecosystem for vaccine distribution in India. The ice lined refrigerators (+2°C to +8°C) are ideal for vaccination programmes due to their ability to maintain a desired temperature even without power for up to as long as 48 hours, ensuring lower spoilage of vaccines while in storage through inevitable power cuts.
And vaccine transporters (+8°C to -20°C) are suitable for transport of vaccines to remote corners of the country since they maintain desired low temperatures even while in transit by working off the battery of any four-wheel vehicle.
The company also launched touchless storage water coolers and softpush bottled water dispensers. Apart from the new launches, the company has a range of commercial refrigeration products and solutions.
Blue Star’s manufacturing footprint spans five state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities. The company’s manufacturing facilities at Wada (Maharashtra) and Ahmedabad (Gujarat) are dedicated to manufacturing its wide range of commercial refrigeration products.
The company, with a capex of around Rs 130 crores, is in the process of setting up a new plant at its existing facility at Wada to expand the manufacturing capacity of its deep freezers and storage water coolers, to cater to the rising demand for commercial refrigeration products.
With the new plant, Blue Star will be doubling its production capacity for deep freezers. It is in the advanced stages of completion and is likely to be commissioned towards the end of this year.
B Thiagarajan, MD, Blue Star Limited, adds, “The need for commercial refrigeration in India is increasingly becoming vital across industries be it for pharmaceutical or healthcare, agriculture, hospitality, food processing, or dairy, amongst others. In fact, compared to the developed countries, commercial refrigeration adoption in India is only at a sub-5 per cent level, which translates into huge opportunities for us.”
“Currently, with India’s pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors witnessing heightened momentum due to the roll out of the vaccination drive and enhanced thrust by the Government to build a future-ready robust healthcare ecosystem, the demand for these products and equipment is witnessing a rapid uptick,” he added.
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