Rockwell Industries launches hybrid-powered chiller Chillermill

Hyderabad headquartered Rockwell Industries, a leading commercial cold chain appliances manufacturer recently launched Chillermill – the world’s first chiller/freezer powered by Hybrid (Solar & Wind) Renewable Energy, that would be ideal for storing vaccines, lifesaving medicines, including those for Covid-19 vaccines at the desired temperature. The company also rolled out its new Covid-19 vaccine freezer series.

The Intelligently designed Rockwell’s Chillermill and WHO PQS (World Health Organisation PQS) certified Covid-19 vaccine Freezer Series, will be manufactured at its state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Medchal, Hyderabad. The entire system is Certified by the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education & Research (NIPER) Hyderabad.

Jayesh Ranjan, Principal Secretary, Government of Telangana for the Industries & Commerce (I&C) and Information Technology (IT), formally launched the new range of COVID-19 vaccines chillers, a simple plug and play standalone unit, powered by SolarMill a hybrid (Wind & Solar) energy solution, manufactured by WindStream Energy Technologies ideal for remote areas where availability of electricity is not stable. The Hybrid Renewable System comprising of Savonius vertical axis wind turbines, along with a Solar Module enables the refrigerator to run 24/7 on power stored in batteries. SolarMills are also being used in powering critical applications of Defence forces, Railways and Telecom domain.

Commending Rockwell for its need of the hour technological innovation, and its new Covid-19 vaccine focussed Hybrid Renewable Energy driven Chillermill and the WHO certified new Covid-19 Freezer series, Ranjan said, “Governments and immunisation programmes rely on a complicated cold chain of freezers and temperature-controlled conditions and Rockwell has developed the much-needed refrigeration technology to address these challenges to preserve vaccine, healthcare products, and other deep-freezing applications.”

Unveiling Chillermill and the new Covid 19 vaccine freezer series, Ashok Gupta, MD, Rockwell Industries said, “There are places especially, many rural hospitals and immunisation sites that can’t depend on the unreliable power supply. With our new renewable energy-supported freezers/Chillers, we are in a position to help the health sector overcome these challenges. Technologically they meet the strictest biosafety, biomedical needs and solve the pain points in the cold chain.”

The company is in active discussion with leading vaccine players nationally & internationally to supply Chillermill. “We expect to close in orders worth Rs. 25 Crores this year and hope to achieve Rs. 50 Crores by the end of 2022,” Gupta added.

Rockwell, which has a size of over Rs 125 Crores in the segment, may touch Rs 350 Crores in the next few years, Gupta, revealed.