ESG-ROADMAP
The challenge of the frozen food and refrigeration industry. The frozen and refrigerated industry faces some major challenges. As part of the value chain for the food and pharmaceutical industries, all companies will soon have to report more and more on their CO2 emissions and what positive and negative impact they have on European climate goals. The [...]
ENERGY SURCHARGE FOR COLD STORAGE FACILITIES.
Constant and unpredictable daily increases in electricity prices caused major headaches for Belgian cold storage companies in 2022. Since the refrigeration units of frozen storage companies run on electricity, electricity - next to staff wages - is the main cost item. The increase in wages is determined by the evolution of consumption index and thanks to [...]
SECTORAL LOGISTICS LIABILITY RISKS
BECOLD commissioned a study of the liability risks of some members and produced an informative document with points of interest in terms of risks in relation to sectoral storage conditions, liabilities and a proposal around minimum requirements of insurance coverage. Each insured's situation is different. The contents of the document should therefore be checked [...]
DISASTER ASSISTANCE.
By becoming a member of BECOLD, the Professional Association of the Belgian Freezing and Refrigeration Industry, the member tacitly declares its intention to put all reasonable means and, in addition, all necessary and available services, against payment or otherwise, at the service of a BECOLD member cold-storage and freezing warehouse, which would be affected by a serious calamity affecting the business continuity of its [...]
BECOLD DYNAMICS
The software standard for refrigeration and freezer logistics BECOLD-Dynamics is a complete software solution specifically for refrigeration and freezer warehouses. The solution is ERP, WMS and TMS in one. It contains as standard all functionalities for your logistics and business processes. For monitoring and controlling temperature. For registration of batch numbers, production date and THT data. But also for purchasing, sales and finance. Integrated and collectively customized [...]
STRATEGIC BUSINESS MODEL BELGIAN REFRIGERATION AND FREEZING SECTOR
Refrigerated and freezer storage providers are increasingly moving away from traditional storage and distribution service providers to strategic partners with their customers to provide solutions based on their needs. The "one size fits all" warehouse model has passed. More specialized and customized warehouses for particular products [...]
FLEXCOLD
Flexcold stands for "Intelligent deployment of the flexibility of cold storage facilities for the optimal use of renewable energy." In 2011, BECOLD investigated whether the flexibility available to cold storage companies could be used to maximize the use of renewable energy. The first step was to investigate what flexibility could be provided by cold and freezer storage facilities [....]
SECTOR GUIDE ROAD TRANSPORT & WAREHOUSING
The "Sector guide for road transport and storage in the food chain" is a practical guide with many examples and HACCP plans for the companies from the sector of road transport and storage on behalf of third parties active within the food chain to apply the RD autocontrol, traceability and notification obligation of November 14, 2003. Companies that [...]
