This alliance offers innovative solutions for supermarkets, prioritizing energy efficiency, sustainability and comfort.
MEXICO CITY (August 20, 2024) – Copeland, a global provider of sustainable climate solutions, officially announces its alliance in Mexico with Flō Energy Solutions, a company with 25 years of experience and specialized in offering innovative and sustainable solutions for humidity and temperature control within food stores and supermarkets.
With this alliance, which initially covers the Mexican and Central American market, Copeland creates an interesting synergy that will expand its offer of energy saving and human comfort solutions and technologies through Flō Energy Solutions, which becomes an additional advantage for the specialized client in the refrigeration market, who will save money in terms of consumption, energy efficiency, installation and maintenance.
Flō Energy Solutions units feature Copeland’s digital and variable speed scroll compressor technology, and are integrated with Copeland’s existing control and monitoring solutions that together will allow optimal operation of the store’s AC equipment to provide energy savings and provide a unique environmental comfort experience to customers during their purchases.
These solutions, which reduce the use of refrigeration tons by 20%, significantly reduce the weight of the rooftop units, and generate significant savings in construction costs, are known as DOAS+ with Adaptive Multi-Path Technology, and are the result of extensive research and development processes, designed and built by supermarket experts.
This patented design by Flō Energy Solutions consolidates the benefits of dedicated outdoor air systems (DOAS) and indoor air recirculation rooftop units (RTU) into a single unit. Particularly effective in humid climates where other units are more prone to failure, this all-in-one system automatically adjusts to changes in stores.
“The purpose of this alliance is to offer supermarkets human comfort, maintain and improve the operation of refrigeration equipment, support the sale of food to keep it fresh and in better condition, which helps it sell better,” said Roberto Ramírez, sales director for North Latin America at Copeland. “Flō Energy Solutions units are responsible for temperature and humidity control that positively impacts people and their shopping experience and at the same time impacts food and refrigeration equipment within the store, since humidity can cause corrosion and other problems. These Flō Energy Solutions units intelligently adapt to better manage temperature and humidity.”
For his part, Alex Radovan, Vice President of Global Sales at Flō Energy Solutions, highlighted the most important aspects of this alliance: “We understand that Copeland has a growing service business and that they have a lot of experience in the food retail market due to refrigeration controls. For us, this alliance means an expansion of our geographic coverage in Latin America. We needed a talented partner who knew the market and offered more value in the food retail sector. They have a lot of experience in providing refrigeration controls for the food sector, compressors and control components for mechanical systems, which are included in our units, allowing us to offer equipment that helps optimize the environment of a food store.”
Currently, these solutions are already available for the Mexican and Central American territory, and to date they have already been implemented in twelve stores of three different supermarket chains; one of these recognized as the largest in Mexico. The alliance is expected to expand later to have full coverage in Latin America. For more information on Copeland’s sustainable solutions, visit Copeland.com.
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About Copeland
A global provider of sustainable climate solutions, Copeland combines leading brands in compression, controls, software and monitoring for heating, cooling and refrigeration. With best-in-class engineering and design and a broader portfolio of solutions, we not only set the standard for compressor manufacturing leadership, we are pioneering its evolution. By combining our technology with our intelligent energy management solutions, we can regulate, monitor and optimize operating conditions to help protect the environment while providing comfort in any space. With our energy-efficient products, regulation-ready solutions and expertise, we are innovating to revolutionize the next generation of climate technologies. For more information, visit Copeland.com.
About Flō Energy Solutions
Based in Toronto, Flō Energy Solutions started in 1998 and is the only HVAC company focused solely on optimizing building performance for food retail with its HVAC/dehumidification solutions through its DOAS+ Adaptive Multi-Path™ Technology. Flō’s HVAC technology simplifies rooftop systems, optimizes performance and creates a comfortable retail environment that leads to increased profitability for store owners. Flō’s modeling has been recognized by the U.S. Department of Energy and its innovative HVAC and dehumidification solutions have earned the company multiple patents. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) also recognized that Flō’s “Adaptive Multi-Path™ System demonstrated substantial savings across all climates.” For more information, please visit systemsflo.com.