About this presentation

related to ATMOsphere Japan 2017
published on 20 February 2017
15 pages

Jörg Huschka discussed the history and motivation of Nestle’s leadership in natural refrigerant usage in its Japanese factories. Tsutomu Nakama discussed in detail, Nestle’s initiatives to phase out R22 from 3 of it’s main factories in Japan.

About the speaker(s)

Jörg Huschka

 

Huschka studied process engineering in Germany and started his career as refrigeration engineer in 1986 with Brown Boweri YORK (today JCI). He stayed in industrial refrigeration applications for about 14 years. His main objective was the layout, calculation and design of industrial ammonia systems for the food manufacturing industry like breweries, malteries, cold stores, meat, pizza and yoghurt and processing.

In 2001 he joined Nestlé to design and implement a CO₂/NH₃ cascade systems with plate freezers for prepared food in the USA. He moved on into the coffee business, acquired factory experience and specialized in the freeze dried technology for soluble coffee.

Tsutomu Nakama

 

Tsutomu Nakama joined Nestle Japan in 1977 and worked as a project/process engineer in various locations within Nestle. Since 2005, he worked as a corporate engineering manager and led the capital investment projects including R22 phase-out projects in the three factories. Since 2015, he has been working as an E2E project engineer for the renovation project including relocation/expansion of the FD refrigeration in the Shimada factory.