Australia’s largest air-conditioning manufacturer, Seeley International, will play a key role in the delivery of one of the Nation’s most state-of-the-art food manufacturing facilities.

The South Australian based manufacturer will commission the building HVAC system for Thomas Foods International’s Murray Bridge meat-processing facility with its Climate Wizard (IEC) indirect evaporative cooling technology. The project, touted as a ‘global showcase of advanced food manufacturing’, will have a significant cooling and ventilation demand, with an initial beef processing capacity of up to 600 head per day and a range of associated packaging, storage, and administrative facilities.

Seeley’s Group Managing Director, Jon Seeley, said that the project would be a strong case study for Seeley’s growing credentials in the food and beverage manufacturing sector.

“We are exceptionally proud to be partnering with Thomas Foods, which has very strong sustainability and health mandates – these are really what our technology espouses,” said Mr Seeley. “Particularly in the commercial world, we are seeing the convergence of sustainability and health, with the growing challenge for buildings being the efficient delivery of fresh, outside air.”

Seeley’s Climate Wizard technology has been a global disruptor of conventional cooling, with thousands of units deployed globally across the food and wine, manufacturing, retail, health, and education sectors. The Thomas Foods International contract is an important milestone for the company, demonstrating the capacity of its technology to meet the stringent efficiency, health and air-flow requirements needed to deliver premium food produce.

Thomas Foods International CEO, Darren Thomas, said that he was pleased to have another South Australian manufacturer onboard.

“Our facility will incorporate the best food-manufacturing technology in the world, and I am thrilled to have a fellow South Australian company which shares a similar vision for sustainability and health,” said Mr Thomas. “We are excited to deliver a facility which will continue to supply premium produce to the world and in which our employees can thrive. Fresh air will certainly be a big part of that picture.”