Vol 89, No 4 (2000)

The year 2000 marks the 50th anniversary of the start of production of domestic refrigeration equipment in the country. This date coincides with the "round" dates of other events that had a certain impact on the development of this type of technology.

On January 10, 2000, Oleg Alekseevich SHIKEROV, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Yekaterinburg OAO Torgmash, turned 60 years old.
The biography of Oleg Alekseevich Shikerov is closely connected with the history of one of the oldest enterprises in our country - OAO Torgmash. Oleg Alekseevich Shikerov came to the plant in 1986, having worked before that for twenty years at one of the leading enterprises in the Sverdlovsk region - the Turbine Engine Plant named after. K. E. Voroshilov, at the same time for eight years he headed the branch of the All-Union Design and Technology Institute (formerly Leningrad).
Oleg Alekseevich is an experienced production worker, an excellent organizer, a person with a broad outlook, high professional qualities, and deep technical knowledge. In a difficult period for the plant, he was able to rally the team and mobilize it for well-coordinated work in a short time. Shikerov's high organizational skills allowed the plant staff to achieve significant success. At the initiative of the director, the reconstruction of existing workshops began and the construction of new workshops began. Modern machines for pouring polyurethane foam, numerically controlled machines, injection molding machines with a large injection volume were purchased, a project was developed for the complete reconstruction of the enterprise and the construction of housing for the plant's employees. From 1998 to the present, Oleg Alekseevich SHIKEROV manages the company's development strategy as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Torgmash Open Joint Stock Company.

For centuries, people have used ice as a simple and reliable source of cold, which has found wide application in various fields of human activity.
Especially great is the need to use ice in the production of sausages and meat products; harvesting and processing of fish and seafood; production of cream, butter, cheese, as well as when demonstrating or storing products in a distribution network.
The use of flake and granulated ice in technological processes can significantly increase the yield of finished products, improve its quality, and reduce overhead costs.

A new series of high-performance ammonia evaporator BIA blocks with a heat exchange surface area of 40–800 m2 is mass-produced at specialized plants

The IN series industrial air cooler uses a completely new design concept and materials.

In many industries, especially such as food, chemical, pharmaceutical, cooling of various liquids is an integral part of the production process. From the "quality" of this process, the stability of temperature regimes, the final result of the technological chain largely depends - the quality of the products, its cost and the profit of the enterprise.