BOP TIMES ARTICLE

20 March 2024

Hort Air Services was recently interviewed and showcased in Business section of the Bay of Plenty Times newspaper. Please go to the following link and enjoy the read...

FRUIT LOGISTICA ASIA 2019

FRUIT LOGISTICA ASIA 2019

22 August 2019

ABSOGER will be exhibiting at FRUIT LOGISTICA ASIA 2019 in Hong Kong September 4-6. Hort Air Services will be on the stand each day and we look forward to meeting with all existing and new customers, please feel welcome to stop by and discuss your current or future requirements. You can find us in Hall 1/A05 Please feel free to contact Jason on...

DYNAMIC PRESSURE REGULATION AUSTRALASIA FIRST

DYNAMIC PRESSURE REGULATION AUSTRALASIA FIRST

2 March 2019

R J Flowers of Twyford has become one of the most innovative control atmosphere sites in Australasia. 4 years ago Ron Flowers decided he would build his own CA rooms to store his pears onsite rather than contract store them offsite where he had no input and or control over the other sites control atmosphere rooms which lead to mixed...

Mount Pack and Cool New Control Atmosphere Rooms

Mount Pack and Cool New Control Atmosphere Rooms

1 July 2018

Mount Pack and Cool Ltd's latest new facility constructed over the past 15 months here in Tauranga which opened for the start of the 2018 Kiwifruit harvest is a state of the art facility and game changer for the kiwifruit industry. Not only have they installed the latest in refrigeration, automated racking and control technology but inside the...

R J Flowers Install Ethylene Analyser

R J Flowers Install Ethylene Analyser

28 February 2018

R J Flowers of Twyford wanted to add further real time monitoring and management of their Pear Control Atmosphere rooms. Monitoring the ethylene levels in real time inside each Pear CA room creates a great management tool to enable the operator to see when the fruit maturity is increasing and needs to be packed and shipped or how often a ethylene...

Successful trials of Active Controlled Atmosphere technology for Avocados

Successful trials of Active Controlled Atmosphere technology for Avocados

22 February 2018

Avanza, a supplier of premium Hass avocados, has completed a successful trial with Daikin Reefer, a global supplier of container refrigeration equipment. Using Daikin’s Active Controlled Atmosphere (CA) technology, Avanza trialled a proof of concept shipment of 6,500kg avocados between the ports of Tauranga, New Zealand, and Busan,...

Fruit LOGISTICA ASIA

Fruit LOGISTICA ASIA

2 August 2017

Hort Air Services will be attending the upcoming ASIA Fruit Logistica fair in Hong Kong from September 6-8, 2017.  Please feel welcome to contact Jason on +64 (0) 27 2959 623 or jason@hortair.co.nz to arrange a meeting in Hong Kong to discuss your current and or pending new project and allow Hort AIr Services to explain the benefits of...

Jonny Appleseed CA Upgrade

Jonny Appleseed CA Upgrade

27 May 2017

Well another satisfied customer, Hort Air Services was tasked with the urgent replacement and installation of a new Fully automatic controller (Analyser system) for Jonny Apple Seed's Controlled Atmosphere rooms in Havelock North. The new ABSOGER Supervisor V7 was retrofitted and connected to the sites existing Isolcell CO2 scrubbers and...

Controlled Atmosphere Storage of Avocados

22 March 2017

The largest Avocado producer in the world implemented a research program 5 years ago to investigate controlled atmosphere storage of their Avocados. After further discussion and through the ingenuity of ABSOGER, one of the largest manufacturer's of controlled atmosphere equipment in the world a system was designed and developed to further...

COMPRESSED AIR CONTROLS & HORT AIR JOIN FORCES

22 September 2016

Nitrogen Generators Hort Air Services ABSOGER Nitrogen Generators consist of two towers containing Carbon Molecular Sieves (CMS). Air is compressed, dried and purified before entering the towers. Oxygen is absorbed on the CMS and nitrogen enriched gas leaves the tower. While one tower is producing nitrogen the other one is...

NEW HIGH SENSITIVITY PORTABLE OXYGEN ANALYSER HAS ARRIVED

NEW HIGH SENSITIVITY PORTABLE OXYGEN ANALYSER HAS ARRIVED

29 April 2016

Hort Air Services has taken delivery of a new portable analyser designed specifically to measure and test your high purity nitrogen  production onsite. The analyser is completley portable allowing our team to test your nitrogen anywhere, easily and quickly. With its highly sensitive oxygen sensor we can test the residual oxygen in your...

FORIS Index Door Factory Visit

FORIS Index Door Factory Visit

12 November 2015

Hort Air Services was hosted by FORIS Index based in Conselice, Italy. The FORIS Index door factory manufactures a range of high quality industrial doors for all purposes. From Controlled Atmosphere doors to Rapid roll high speed doors to hinged access doors to Freezer doors. All doors have the option of opening vertically or sliding. Hort Air...

Avocado Container Flushing

Avocado Container Flushing

28 August 2015

Hort Air Services has again supplied 2 PSA Nitrogen Generators for flushing CA containers of Avocado's at the Port of Tauranga. Containers are loaded at the packhouse then transported to the container terminal at Sulphur Point where they are flushed with Hort Air's PSA Nitrogen Generators to create a CA environment. Then they are loaded...

PARKER MAXIGAS Calibration

PARKER MAXIGAS Calibration

2 July 2015

Hort Air Services and our partner Plummer Compressors were recently asked to calibrate a customers Parker Maxigas PSA Nitrogen Generator. With our vast knowledge of other manufacturers equipment and our certified staff we are able to carry out calibration on most makes of O2 sensors. If you  have a Nitrogen Generator with a O2 sensor that...

Controlled Atmosphere Equipment Servicing

Controlled Atmosphere Equipment Servicing

12 April 2015

Hort Air Services has just completed annual servicing of Golden Bay Fruits in Motueka CA equipment. Golden Bay Fruits have older Van Amerongen equipment onsite and after 10 years were looking for another option for their annual servicing requirements. Hort Air Services was able to provide another solution and were offered the opportunity to...

New PSA Nitrogen Generator for NZ HOPS

New PSA Nitrogen Generator for NZ HOPS

1 April 2015

New Zealand HOPS based in Nelson have recently replaced an old Nitrogen Generator onsite with a new ABSOGER Genius 8 PSA Nitrogen Generator. The new PSA produces 18m3/Hr at 99.9% N2 . The compressor, a Kaeser SK25T, Air/N2 Buffer tanks were all sourced from local pnuematic company Air Products. Hort Air Services and Air Products  work...

New Controlled Atmosphere Installation for Shepparton

New Controlled Atmosphere Installation for Shepparton

2 March 2015

Local Shepparton Apple and Pear producer G V Storage have just completed installation and commisioning of their new 8 controlled atomosphere rooms. Hort Air Services and ABSOGER were happy to supply all the equipment to GV Storage for their latest project. They installed the latest and most up to date controlled atmosphere equipment available...

New CA Rooms for Local Hastings Pear Grower

New CA Rooms for Local Hastings Pear Grower

1 March 2015

R J Flowers Ltd in Tywford, Hastings have just completed commisioning their 6 new controlled atmosphere rooms built onsite to store their Pears long term. R J Flowers had been storing their pears off site for many years in leased CA rooms and finally decided to take control of their own destiny and store the pears onsite where they could monitor...

Cobram Tomato Producer Installs new Ethylene Scrubber

Cobram Tomato Producer Installs new Ethylene Scrubber

9 February 2015

One of Australias largest producers and packer of Tomatoe's has installed a new ABSOGER CE 602 F Platinum Catalyst Ethylene Scrubber to remove ethylene from his coolrooms to prolong the storage life of his tomotoes whilst in storage. Ethylene is a major contributer to shortening the storage life of any produce. By using the ethylene scrubber...

FORIS Index CA Doors

FORIS Index CA Doors

1 December 2014

18 new FORIS Index Controlled Atmosphere doors arrived today and have been unloaded ready to dispatch to customers sites. The doors are 2.5 x 3m, model reference FI-91D, for further information please contact Hort Air...

Bell Tea & Coffee latest Addition

Bell Tea & Coffee latest Addition

24 November 2014

Hort Air Services has just completed final commissioning of Bell Tea & Coffee’s latest addition, ABSOGER GENIUS 4 PSA Nitrogen Generator for their coffee bagging plant in their manufacturing factory in East Tamaki, Auckland. After years of back breaking man handling large bottles of nitrogen along with the huge expense to rent bottles...

Succesful Few Months

1 November 2014

Hort Air Services has had an extremely busy but productive past few months. We've been succesful and managed to secure the following contracts/Installations:  Extreme ULO installation for 8 new CA rooms in Shepparton, Australia for the storage of Apple and Pears Ethylene Scrubber installation for tomato coolrooms in Cobram,...

Shepparton Growers Presentation

Shepparton Growers Presentation

18 September 2014

Hort Air Services and ABSOGER are visiting the Shepparton region in Victoria Australia from 16-20 September 2014. We are looking forward to meeting everyone again and we are holding a special presentation for all industry personnel. Please feel welcome to join us and share a drink afterwards on the 18th September at Best Western Wyndhamere Motel...

Avocado Container gassing underway

Avocado Container gassing underway

26 August 2014

First day gassing controlled atmosphere containers of Avocados at the Port of Tauranga today. Hort Air Services has 2 ABSOGER PSA Nitrogen Generators onsite to gas these containers for the next 4-5 months during the Avocado...

New Website Launched

14 August 2014

Hort Air Services is proud to announce the launch of our brand new website. After weeks in the making our website now incompasses our new distribution areas for ABSOGER which now includes Australia and...

Hort Air Services in the news

Hort Air Services in the news

9 March 2014

Lucie standing alongside the new PSA F35 Nitrogen Generator freshly installed at ENZA Hastings. PSA F35 25KW 8 bar compressor producing 122 m3/Hr at 2% O2 Will pull down 513 tonnes to 5% O2 within 24...

We Have Moved to a Larger Office!

We Have Moved to a Larger Office!

4 February 2014

HORT AIR SERVICES LTD has moved into our new larger office and warehouse at 2/48 Aviation Ave, Mount Maunganui. Postal address and telephone numbers still the...

PMA Fresh Connections Conference in Sydney Australia

PMA Fresh Connections Conference in Sydney Australia

11 June 2013

Hort Air Services is attending PMA Fresh Connections Conference in Sydney...

Brancott Winery in Blenheim

Brancott Winery in Blenheim

3 April 2013

Hort Air Services has nitrogen generator working at Brancott Winery in...

Annual maintenance work for customers in Motueka

Annual maintenance work for customers in Motueka

20 February 2013

Hort Air Services trained staff are undertaking annual maintenance work for customers in...

Exhibiting at Zespri Momentum

Exhibiting at Zespri Momentum "All Systems Go" Conference 2012

17 October 2012

Hort Air Services are attending and exhibiting at Zespri Momentum "All Systems Go" Conference...

Keep it Cool - Bay of Plenty Times

Keep it Cool - Bay of Plenty Times

21 September 2010

www.bayofplentytimes.co.nz/news/keep-it-cool Article by Elaine Fisher | Tuesday, September 21, 2010 9:23 Controlled atmosphere storage is vital to prolong the selling season for many horticultural crops, but not all post-harvest facilities make the best possible use of the technology, believes Jason Anderson of Hort Air...

Apple growers to benefit from new nitrogen generators

Apple growers to benefit from new nitrogen generators

29 June 2010

Innovative Equipment at Apollo Pac HB Today editorial (PDF) Apple growers to benefit from new nitrogen...

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