A United Kingdom-based refrigeration and air-condition engineering company, UK Cold, a subsidiary of UK Cold Limited, has reiterated the company’s commitment to offering temperature control solutions for the agriculture, health, livestock, hospitality, pharmaceutical, and corporate sectors in Nigeria.
Its sales manager, Michael Anthony, stated this Thursday at the corporate haed office of Blueprint newspapers in Abuja.
Anthony said the company which experience spanned 10 years in refrigeration and air-condition engineering had been offering temperature solutions to both medium to large-scale organisations in the UK with emphasis on cold room design, installation and maintenance.
“As a way of building long-term relationships and building strategic partnership, the company has initiated three arms which focus on installation, maintenance and training,” he said.
On the company’s mission in Nigeria, Anthony said it was set to replicate what it had done in the United Kingdom.
“We are passionate about our country, Nigeria, and we think we can create value by replicating some of the things we have done in the UK here too in order to help prevent food wastages in the agriculture sector, for instance. Not only that, we are also out to proffer solutions to some of the technological challenges plaguing various sectors like health, livestock, pharmaceutical, hospitality and the corporate sector.”
He further said, “By forming the right partnerships as a people, we will be able to duplicate our blueprint to tackle the various challenges like using cooling storage to enhance productivity and outputs in our country.
“Statistics, for instance, has shown that over 35% of food from harvests in this country is wasted based on lack of proper storage, particularly fruits and vegetables.”
Proffering solution, Anthony urged governments at various levels to, as a matter of necessity, install cooling facilities in virtually all the 774 local governments in the country to curb seasonal food wastages and to increase food availability.
