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Krone introduced a refrigerated trailer with a completely new insulated body, which, according to Krone, consumes 25% less energy, has better insulation and therefore a lower burden on the cooling unit to keep the temperature at the required level. A streamlined underside completes this new trailer. The trailer's insulated body works on the same principle as a vacuum flask. With this example, the Krone engineers set to work to create vacuuminsulated panels, which should isolate the inside temperature about 10 times better than the current technology.
A vacuum-insulated panel, measuring 20mm, offers the same level of isolation as a traditional, 200mm-thick panel. With the cooling machine having less work to do, 002 output goes down, as do noise levels and the overall trailer weight. After being bought by competitor Humbaur, Germany's number three trailer supplier, Kogel, appears set to continue its field test with a number of 14.9m trailers.
So far, Kbgel has built 200 longer trailers, a spokeswoman told CM.
There are permits 41 Germany for 300 longer trailers and she assures us that they will all be built, now that KOgel has been resurrected under new ownership.
However, there is no certainty yet about the other countries where permits were granted to try out the new trailer: the Czech Republic, Poland and Italy.