Thermo King offers two new products
Written by William C. Vantuono, Editor-in-ChiefThermo King said Monday it is introducing two new products, the Heat King 430 series for rail, truck, and trailer, and the Auto Fresh Air Exchange for SB-RR refrigeration units for rail, during the Intermodal Association of North America (IANA) Expo, now ongoing in Atlanta.
Thermo King says its engineers created the Heat King 430 series to provide reliable freeze protection for temperature-sensitive cargo such as paint or chemicals while increasing uptime, lowering life cycle costs, and increasing intermodal operator efficiency.
Among other items, the company says, the Heat King unit provides the industry’s only flash-load programming capability and features system diagnostics for easy troubleshooting and lower labor costs. It also offers the industry-leading ability to retain error codes indefinitely rather than losing them when the unit is turned off.
The Thermo King Fresh Air Exchange is designed to ensure delivery of fresh air to unattended rail containers via remote access to maximize shelf life and improve food quality over extended transport of days or weeks. This feature can control the flow of fresh air and monitor the state of the mechanism either locally at the HMI or remotely via third party telematics.
The company says the Fresh Air Exchange keeps loads safe from the detrimental effects of gas build-up inside the refrigerated space. A simplified design ensures reliability and ease of use, which increases operator efficiency. This solution can be used on rail boxcar, container on flatcar and trailer on flatcar applications.
“We listened carefully to customer needs to develop innovative custom rail solutions that meet industry challenges and allow customers to consistently deliver high quality cargo despite lengthy unattended rail transport,” said Doug Lenz, Thermo King’s director of product management and marketing for Thermo King.
