Thermo King and BPW in collaboration on cleaner fridges

Thermo King and BPW have revealed that they have been collaborating on a sustainable power solution for refrigerated transport since last autumn. The target is to reduce carbon emissions at the same time as bringing significant cost reductions for road transport operators.

Thermo King is a major brand of Trane Technologies plc, the Dublin-based group formerly known as Ingersoll-Rand, which specialises in sustainable technology across a broad range of sectors. The German BPW group, meanwhile, is best known for its heavy truck and trailer axle, suspension and braking components, but has recently moved into driveline components for electric trucks.

BPW’s general manager, trailer solutions and mobility services, Thore Bakker, General Manager said "In times of climate change, new traffic regulations in urban areas, the transport industry is more than ever challenged to find new ways of doing business economically and ecologically. Together with Thermo King, BPW is addressing the urgent problems of refrigerated transport, whose refrigeration units are still powered by a separate diesel engine today. By combining our competences as technology leaders for freight transport solutions we can make temperature control systems more environmentally friendly through new energy concepts in the trailer. This will also have a positive implication to the total cost of ownership of the freight forwarder along the transportation supply chain."

Trane Technologies has an ambitious target to reduce its customers’ carbon emissions by a gigaton (1,000,000,000 tonnes), by 2030, which is equal to the combined emissions of the UK, France and Italy.