Aug26
The Team at MNK Technical Services recently worked with our colleagues from Bakery Combinations to deliver a large scale project on the Victorian Surf Coast. The Hengel Roll-thru proofing tunnels have been developed to meet the needs of fast paced baking operations. The dough is held at a certain temperature (refrigerated overnight) until the baker...
Read more Jul3
One of valued clients had a frozen meat storage room that was due for a refrigeration plant upgrade for various reasons, including reliability of the aging original equipment and also the need to transition refrigerant type. The noisy and energy hungry semi-hermetic condensing unit was moved on to the scrap man, as was the old...
Read more May21
The team at MNK recently provided a solution to update an older refrigeration asset for a local butcher. Think “old school” butchers coldplate that has operated for so long that nobody gives it a second thought – until it stops working ! Refrigerant unknown, no controls, no labels – happy days ! Original charge removed...
Read more Apr6
One of our customers had a failed compressor on the condensing unit for one of their coolrooms, this brand and model of unit is from a different era. We worked on plenty of these back in the early days and found them to be extremely capable and reliable – hence why the unit has lasted...
Read more Feb4
The service team at MNK recently had a situation where a client’s commercial freezer room in Melbourne was losing refrigerant every few months and affecting the operating temperature. We tried the conventional methods of detecting the source of the leak, such as electronic leak detectors to “sniff” for refrigerant in the air, UV dye additive...
Read more Dec1
The crew at MNK Technical Services love servicing all kinds of refrigeration systems, large and small, we have been doing a bit in recent times with our friends from Slush Puppie They have a fleet of beautiful American made gravity feed slushie freezers located in various venues around the country. The Stoelting machine is a...
Read more Aug15
Hydrocarbon refrigerants are natural and non-toxic and have minimal global warming potential, their use in new equipment is becoming popular as an environmentally friendly and cost effective refrigerant. Hydrocarbon refrigerants are a smart and responsible choice, but the uptake locally has been slow to filter through and as such there is a skills gap within...
Read more Jul19
As a retailer, whether you are a supermarket, a pub, restaurant or butcher , keeping costs down is an essential part of ensuring your business is successful. A refrigeration system can be a major draw on electrical energy, so it can be beneficial to reducing the size of your power bill to ensure your refrigeration system...
Read more Jun30
MNK Technical Service are specialists in commercial refrigeration – that is refrigeration systems that are typically found in food and fresh retail businesses, hospitality, supermarkets, and of course pubs and hotels. The team at MNK carry out service and general maintenance to refrigeration and glycol beer systems at a number of pubs and hotels across...
Read more Feb14
MNK Technical Services recently oversaw cosmetic and hygienic upgrade works to the coolroom flooring for one of our long term customers. The existing floors had served them well over many years, but had become tired and hard to keep clean. The old chequer plate and timber base flooring was removed, the subfloor and step up...
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