Inalgesco

Inalgesco makes ChillRail, a cooling system for airline catering carts. The company's name comes from the Latin for becoming cold. ChillRail is fitted to catering trucks and can be retrofitted in two days with no vehicle downtime. The site does not give a street address.

The site says most catering trucks use engine driven diesel refrigeration. It reports that in an inspection of 42 catering trucks across three Florida stations, none had a working refrigeration unit. It says 36 of those trucks had factory fitted Carrier 850 diesel units, and it describes the repair costs and wait times as high.

ChillRail is a plenum mounted under the vehicle. It makes filtered refrigerated air and sends it through ducts into each cart. The site says the system has no engine, belts, or dry ice. It works on any high loader, whatever its age.

The company also offers Dispatch ChillRail. This is a refrigerated box above the carts for items such as ovens, wet ice, ice cream, and galley top items. It uses the same plenum and logging as the vehicle version.

The site includes a fleet cost model. For a typical high loader running twelve hours a day, the site estimates about 44,500 US dollars per truck per year in savings. It describes this as an estimate, not a quotation. The site also lists a US patent application for ChillRail.

The site offers a trial. One truck gets ChillRail and an identical truck stays unmodified. Both trucks run on live routes for 30 days. The contact page asks for facility or fleet details so the company can send indicative numbers.