Gordon Brothers was contacted to upgrade the ammonia refrigeration system at a major meat processing facility in Melbourne, operated by a Australia’s largest meat packer. Utilising their extensive experience in meat processing, Gordon Brothers was able to engineer a solution to meet the outcomes the customer required.

Gordon Brothers won the contract to provide the refrigeration system for a new beef processing facility in Darwin. The system is one of the most technical and energy efficient industrial refrigeration plants that Gordon Brothers has installed. It has been engineered as an Ammonia and Carbon Dioxide “cascade” refrigeration system, and was designed to allow for future expansion.

A global food manufacturer required an upgrade of their refrigeration system at their Melbourne confectionery facility, Gordon Brothers designed and installed an EnviroPack ammonia chiller to optimise efficiency, safety, reliability and environmental sustainability.

Australia’s biggest brewer commissioned Gordon Brothers to design and install a new stand alone, oil less, CO2 refrigeration system at its Brisbane manufacturing plant. The system consists of a central CO2 equipment skid which was custom designed and built in Gordon Brothers Bendigo factory, and incorporates PLC control and remote communications back to the main plant.

A regional poultry producer consolidated their freezing operations into a new central location on their processing facility, freeing up valuable production space. Gordon Brothers was selected to provide the refrigeration, which involved providing 2 new alcove evaporators for the storage freezer, the relocation of 2 blast freezer evaporators and consolidation into a single blast freezer along with a new blast freezer evaporator. Provision within the refrigeration piping was also made for a further third blast freezer. A glycol heater was also employed utilising the hot gas waste heat from the refrigeration plant to warm recirculated glycol through the freezer store underfloor slab for the purposes of minimising frost heave. The Gordon team also provided the electrical wiring, switchboard and PLC control system for the refrigeration equipment power and control. All of the new ammonia evaporators were Gordon custom designed heavy duty HDG finned coil block evaporators.

Gordon Brothers was set the challenge to successfully deliver a mine cooling project on a remote island in Indonesia for a global mining customer. The mine cooling team designed a modular system which was fabricated in our Bendigo factory so as to minimise on site assembly and commissioning time. Reliability and efficiency are designed into every mine cooling system that Gordon Brothers installs.

Gordon Brothers designed, engineered, built and installed Australia’s largest, at the time, chilled water refrigeration plant on a mine site in Northern Queensland. The refrigeration capacity of the plant is 24.8MW. In recent years Gordon Brothers was engaged to refurbish and relocate the plant due to the mine expansion.