对于商业食品服务及相关行业(每天都依靠大量冰来表现出食物,安全,准备,饮料等),可靠和成本效率地生产冰的能力可能会影响企业的运营。Between 2005 and 2010, Manitowoc Ice, Inc., the Wisconsin-based manufacturer of commercial ice machines, became interested in taking their product portfolio one step further and turned to Danfoss with the idea to design an ice machine that would improve customers’ sustainability efforts by operating on natural refrigerants.
与Danfoss的合作导致了马尼托瓦克的靛蓝系列中的两个新车型的开发,以及由R290或丙烷冷却的两个Q系列式下台单元,该单元在2011年中期引入了马尼托瓦克。使用环保的烃制冷剂使Manitowoc能够为客户提供具有零臭氧耗竭潜力(ODP)和低全球变暖潜力(GWP)的产品,从而提高了能源效率并降低运营成本。