Association of German cold stores and cold logistics companies

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Association of German Cold Storage and Cooling Logistics Companies

logo
legal form Association
founding 1920s
Seat Bonn
Branch Temperature-controlled logistics
Website www.vdkl.de

The Association of German cold stores and refrigerated logistics Companies (VDKL) is a trade association for food companies around the temperature-controlled warehousing, distribution and logistics of frozen foods and fresh produce.

Members

Members include logistics service providers, industrial and trading companies, and suppliers. In the commercial cold store sector , the association and its members cover over 80% of the entire German market.

Central tasks and goals

The VDKL offers its members various services. These include a.

  • Active representation of member interests in relation to government agencies and authorities at national and European level
  • Energy management
  • Provision of special electricity price conditions through a joint electricity purchase (VDKL-Strompool)
  • Offer of refrigerated goods and refrigerated goods liability insurance, etc. a. (VDKL Insurance Association)
  • Advice on cold store-specific issues

The association was founded in the late 1920s, and Anton Linde, Cologne, took over the chairmanship. One of the main reasons for the establishment was the introduction of uniform terms and conditions for cold stores.

Power pool

The VDKL electricity pool addresses the specific characteristics of the electricity market:

  • Purchases are made directly on the electricity exchange
  • With a direct view of current price developments, whenever it is particularly cheap
  • In structured subsets of the total requirement

Today the VDKL-Strompool manages an energy and purchasing volume of over one billion kWh, i.e. one terawatt hour (TWh). Organizational support for the VDKL electricity pool and energy purchasing on the electricity exchange have been carried out by the energy consultant EnergyLink AG since 1999.

European Cold Storage Association ECSLA

Over 80% of all legal regulations that affect the food sector come from Brussels. If the European Commission adopts or changes z. B. an EC regulation, then this also applies directly in the member states. National implementation is no longer necessary.

The VDKL informs members about all important developments at EC level and is a. Member of the European Cold Storage and Logistics Association (ECSLA). ECSLA is an amalgamation of 10 national associations in Europe, which represent a total of over 850 cold stores and refrigerated logistics companies. Together with the ECSLA, the VDKL represents the interests of the members, in particular towards the European Commission, the European Parliament and other institutions of the European Union. The European Cold Store Association was founded in 1953.

History of German cold stores

Sales / turnover development of the frozen food market in Germany 1992–2012
  • 1880: The company for Linde's ice machines builds its first ice cream factory in Elberfeld-Barmen . In this intermediate stage between ice houses and commercial cold stores, ice bars are made to cool food.
  • 1892: The first commercial cold store in Germany - two floors, 15,000 m² - goes into operation in Hamburg under the name Kühlhaus und Kristalleis-Fabrik
  • 1935: There are 43 cold stores in Germany with a total capacity of 207,000 m², which corresponds to approximately 621,000 m³.
  • During the Second World War , around a quarter of the cold store capacities became unusable. At the same time, the food supplies were so small that the remaining space would hardly have been used if it had not been used by the occupying powers.
  • 1950: In the GDR, after the expropriation of the cold store operations and their conversion into " public property ", there are around 15 cold stores with a capacity of around 300,000 m³. At the turn of the century, a total of 42 cold stores offered a storage capacity of 1.5 million m³, of which, however, 30% were in need of repair and could not be used.
  • 1954: Professor Rudolf Plank (1886–1973) publishes the Handbuch der Kältetechnik , which is still one of the fundamental works of thermodynamics today .
  • 1955: The trend towards frozen food from the USA initially tentatively also reached Germany. Associated with this are specific requirements for cold stores, e.g. B. the guarantee of a storage temperature of at least –18 ° C.
  • Since the 1960s and 1970s, the need for frozen food and thus the cold store capacities have been continuously increasing. Drivers are u. a. Frozen food, ice cream and other convenience products.

literature

  • Lepsius, Carlpeter (1996): Fifty Years of the Cold Storage Association. The development of the German cold store industry.
  • Peilnsteiner, Jan / Truszkiewitz Günter (2004): Manual temperature-controlled logistics, B. Behr's Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Hamburg

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deutsches Tiefkühlinstitut eV