Third party supply chain and logistics firm Stellar Value Chain Solutions has said it will acquire majority stake in integrated cold chain logistics company Kelvin Cold Chain for an undisclosed amount. Ambit Pragma, an SME private equity fund, wou ...

Ice Make Refrigeration Pvt. Ltd. has acquired Bharat Refrigerations Pvt. Ltd. effective December 15, 2016. Bharat Refrigerations was founded in the late 1980s at Chennai. It has grown into a large integrated refrigeration equipment manufacturer ac ...

Association of Ammonia Refrigeration (AAR) held its annual seminar, ARCON 2017, at Hotel Ramada, Navi Mumbai on January 21. It was supported by ISHRAE Mumbai Chapter. Over 200 delegates attended the program. An exhibition was organised on the side ...

Four persons were killed and 13 others injured after a cold storage building was razed to the ground following a powerful blast triggered apparently by ammonia gas leakage in Shivrajpur area of Kanpur district. The incident occurred during lunch h ...

The Indian dairy industry has lauded the government’s decision to earmark a corpus of `8,000 crore for a Dairy Processing and Infrastructure Development Fund [which is to be set up in the National Bank of Agriculture and Rural Development (N ...

India could be the second country to see Amazon brick-and-mortar stores, with the Seattle-based company having sought the government’s approval to open food-only outlets along with an online platform to sell these locally produced items. The ...

Elan Professional Appliances Pvt. Ltd. (Elanpro) has introduced Ice Fall Tower – an illuminated draft beer tower to dispense cold beer from a prechiller.
The energy efficient product has an LED display along with a freeze tower. The p ...

As reported in the March-April 2016 issue of Cold Chain, CII National Task Force on Cold Chain Development has initiated a project titled Strengthening of Post-Harvest Value Chain Management for Development of Mango Industry in Andhra Pradesh&rsqu ...

Here’s wishing all our readers a wonderful new financial year, especially with GST poised to be implemented in the near future and promising to cut through the maze of a large number of taxes, bringing in uniform taxation. This move should b ...

The Government of India has appointed Dilip Rath as Chairman of the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) for a period of two years from December 1. Rath has held additional charge of the post of Chairman since August 1. Rath had joined the ...