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Thermosyphon chillers installed in 1990 at the Dept of Social Security data centre in Washington, Tyne and Wear. This is where child benefit cheques come from. We also provided #cooling for the unemployment benefit cheques and the old age pensions at other DSS sites. #StarAt50
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Star's TELSTAR system, developed in 1983, was the first affordable #refrigeration plant control system with the ability to allow offsite monitoring and alarm-raising. This Mk1 transmitter had the optional extra data storage module! (below) #StarAt50 #Innovation #Engineering
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Thermosyphon chillers installed in 1990 at the Dept of Social Security data centre in Washington, Tyne and Wear. This is where child benefit cheques come from. We also provided #cooling for the unemployment benefit cheques and the old age pensions at other DSS sites. #StarAt50
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Did you know? Our current Azanefreezer concept had its roots in packaged units that were built for export. In the mid-1970s we equipped a series of cold stores in Egypt with a robust and effective system that was a prototype for future packaged plantrooms. #StarAt50 #Innovation
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Sun, sea and...ice-skating? In the summer of 1988 this ice rink plant went all the way from Star’s Glasgow factory to serve a temporary ice rink in Marbella, Spain... before returning to its permanent home in East Kilbride, just 10km from the factory! #StarAt50 #WellTravelled
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And here's @docfridge installing stirring paddles in a fish factory ice slurry tank in the far north of Norway. Andy says, "I think that winter was the coldest my feet have ever been. I remember being so happy to find the hotel bathroom had underfloor heating..." #StarAt50
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As our #retrospective hits the '90s, here's engineer Harry Pittam testing an ice slurry plant in a fish factory in the north of Scotland! The ice is pumped through a ring main and hosed directly onto the fish once they are packed in boxes. #StarAt50 #FishSupperAnyone? #BoxFresh
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Climbing the walls! In the 1990s we expanded the leisure #ice business from ice rinks, to climbing walls (pictured) and even the real iceberg at Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh. We also equipped Torvill and Dean with a mobile plant for their world tour! #StarAt50 #HavingAnIceTime
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One of Star’s first LPR (low pressure receiver) systems, which prevented liquid flood back to the compressor and had many of the benefits of liquid pump circulation without the complications associated with refrigerant liquid pumps! #StarAt50 #Innovation #Refrigeration
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A 4-year Star project for this freeze dried coffee plant began in 1997. It replaced an R-22 plant with the first ammonia/carbon dioxide cascade plant to be installed anywhere in the world since the 1930s! It became the blueprint for many more installations. #StarAt50 #Innovation
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In 1985, Glasgow hosted the World Curling Championships on an ice rink built by Star in the Kelvin Hall in just 8 days. Another #BirthdayMemory for the collection! #StarAt50 #ThoseWereTheDays #Curling #Cooling
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One of the very earliest projects for Star as the company got into its stride – a 1971 whisky chiller for the Strathleven Bonded Warehouses. We’ve kept our close links to the #beverage industry ever since… #StarAt50 #ThoseWereTheDays #Cheers
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While we're still in the #retro bit of our 50th birthday retrospective, here's a look at our oldest #refrigeration plant, for Associated Seafoods cold store on the Moray Firth cost of Scotland, still going strong after 40 years! #StarAt50 #AgingGracefully Associated Seafoods
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Another flashback to 1988 with three modular #refrigeration units headed for the ASDA warehouse at Grangemouth! Built for the new wave of refrigerated distribution centres, they used the system architecture now embedded in our Azanefreezers. #StarAt50 #Innovation #ColdChain
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Foreseeing the demise of CFCs in the late 1980s, Star developed new refrigerant “Starton 69”. Its test equipment included this calorimeter, designed to measure its performance when used as a drop-in replacement for CFCs in #refrigeration systems! #StarAt50 #Innovation #RetroKit
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Here is a low pressure receiver package with two 3-port valves for defrost, installed by Star in 1974 and still in operation to this day! #StarAt50 #RetroFridges
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The first in a distinguished line of photos of #refrigeration packages leaving the Star factory! (1971 at Thornliebank). #StarAt50 #Manufacturing #Birthday #Photos
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In 1986 the first of Star's thermosyphon cooling systems was installed for the Anglia Building Society in Wellingborough. These exceptionally efficient water chilling systems for computers used only 10% of the power of computer room air conditioners. #StarAt50 #Innovation #Photos
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“It didn’t look that big on the drawing…” Star's Projects Director surveys probably the largest fish #freezing plant in the UK and definitely the biggest in Lerwick! It could handle 1,000 tonnes of fish a day, which mostly went for export. #StarAt50 #1990s #Birthday #Memories