Refrigerated & Frozen Foods: Let’s say that a temperature-controlled building operator – a food processor or cold storage warehouse – hasn’t purchased industrial lighting for some time. In what ways have lighting technologies changed?
Neal Verfuerth: Prior to 2001, HID (High Intensity Discharge) lighting was standard in food processing plants and warehouses.
The vast majority of cold storage warehouses in the United States are large, cavernous buildings with ceilings that are approximately twenty feet high and multiple 12-foot-wide aisles with fork trucks riding in and out of them moving product up and down from the racks.