Leader in refrigeration systems HAUSER

LEADER IN

REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS

HAUSER is a turnkey supplier of refrigerated display cabinets and refrigeration systems, with its headquarters in Linz but sales success far beyond the Austrian borders. Julia Snow reports.

60 years of experience, a reputation for innovation, as well as high quality levels – this is what the brand HAUSER stands for in the market place. Reliability, sustainability and functionality are the key words in the philosophy of the company, which generated a turnover of €136.2 million last year and currently has approximately 615 employees.

HAUSER’s export share stands at 69 per cent. Customers around the world are provided with a single-source service as well as innovative, energy-efficient refrigeration solutions.

Manufacturing and distribution capacities

Supermarkets, cash and carry outlets and discount stores are Hauser’s biggest customers for deep-freezing cabinets, serve-over counters, as well as multi-deck and integral display cabinets.

Hauser also sells refrigeration systems, insulating panels and cold room doors for industrial premises such as meat factories and delivery depots. A particular speciality lies in its attention to individual customer needs and a short delivery time owing to flexible production methods.

Hauser’s independent sales offices in Austria, Germany and the UK deal with customers directly. The company also has a wide network of service engineers, and a Europe-wide special 24-hour hotline.

There are two main production plants: The factory in Austria, at Sankt Martin im Mühlkreis, has an area of 13,500m2 for the production of refrigeration cabinets as well as being equipped with four test rooms for extensive product testing in-house. In addition, a factory in Kaplice, Czech Republic, was set up in 1990, which led to the company’s strong position in central and eastern European markets. The plant is located within a 40-minute drive from the head office, so it is closely integrated with the rest of the company.

LED lighting

Customers expect a lot from the presentation of goods at the point of sale these days. One way to enhance the visual impact of refrigeration is through LED lighting, so Hauser has introduced LED lighting in units such as its Regius display cabinet for meat and dairy products. LED lighting is now also offered as standard on the serve-over cabinets. This kind of lighting has important advantages, as it consumes less electricity and brings less heat into the cabinet. The retail sector increasingly uses colours for displaying fruit and vegetables as a way to reiterate freshness. To ensure that it can meet the growing demand for the attractive presentation of food products in colourful refrigeration units, Hauser has installed a fully automated painting line.

Cisaplast

In order to offer Hauser’s customers the most advanced solutions, it’s important to have close partnerships with suppliers of strategic components, having a big impact on the overall performance of the whole cabinet. Cisaplast is definitely one of those.

Based in Italy, having more than 50 years’ experience in producing glass doors, this company is giving an important contribution with Energy Saving products such as the actual Cisa90 and the upcoming Cisa100, a virtually ZERO ENERGY solution for Frozen cabinets.

For Chilled cabinets, Cisa20 (sliding) and Cisa19 (hinged) systems are ensuring high insulation and savings without compromising the products visibility.

Eco ES system

HAUSER is also a strong partner when it comes to minimising the Total Cost of Ownership. Energy efficiency is a key driver, and HAUSER’s ingenious Eco ESsystem enables supermarkets to save energy by using the heat that is discharged by the refrigeration cabinets to heat the whole of the building: the heat that comes out of the refrigeration system is fed into a heat exchanger in the store. The company has the capacity to provide customers with turnkey solutions, including planning, delivery and installation.

With the Eco ES system, all sorts of temperatures can be visualised on a PC monitor: there is even a module that picks up the weather forecast and synchronises the system with it.

The MERANIS IMM-XL deep-freezing cabinet

Last year HAUSER set new standards in goods presentation with the MERANIS IMM-XL deep-freezing cabinet. Described as ‘So cool. So beautiful’, it combines energy-efficient technology with attractive design. Direct integration of the shop-around end in the long island ensures a visually coherent design and simplifies installation. Glass covers come in curved and flat versions, with push or slide openings. The new Clear Ice Push3 version (a three-part, curved glass cover that slides within itself and has no central support) makes access to products particularly easy. The new deep-freezing cabinet has already been installed at Burkl in Dachsbach, one of the first carbon-neutral supermarkets in Germany.

Innovations at EuroShop 2014

The company is poised to unveil numerous innovations at the EuroShop 2014 trade fair. These will include versatile new refrigerated serve-over counters from the Varius series, which adapt flexibly to specific customer needs. Highly efficient refrigerated multideck display cabinets from the Renima, Rebas, Regius and Regas series, which feature new designs and wide-ranging configurations, will also be shown.

All HAUSER cabinets can be configured individually to accommodate many market sizes and applications. The Meranis, Museta and Mirengo deep-freezing cabinets also promise new functions, design elements and energy saving measures. In the field of systems engineering, HAUSER deploys modern technologies that include integrated systems to utilise waste heat from refrigeration systems and carbon dioxide as a natural and environmentally sound refrigerant for the future. n