The new Geneglace F2000 produces 50t of ice per day, which means it is the largest ice-making machine in the world according to a company spokesman.
'Fifty tones per day of dry and subcooled ice means 4825 kWh of refrigeration is available for immediate chilling, ' he says. 'With a large exchange surface the flake-ice very rapidly releases its refrigeration potential and maintains products at 0 deg C.'
The F2000 prototype was tested this summer at the company's Nantes, France, plant. It was then sent by ship to Japan to continue trials and will become the major part in an all-weather snow gun that will cover the Utopia Saioto ski resort with snow from November onwards.
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