News 2014

In December 2014, STEP Group has carried out the refrigeration supply projects for two distribution centers of the store chain "Vernyi". The complexes include the multi-temperature chambers with the area of 17,500 sq.m. The works that have been carried out in these facilities include:
- The refrigeration supply system installation including equipment installation with the total refrigerating capacity of 1.5 MW.
- For the ground protection against the frost penetration in the low temperature chambers with the total area of 4000 sq.m. The energy saving ground heating system using the recycled heat from the refrigerating units has been installed.
- The refrigeration doors and the high speed rollup gates installation including the fire resistant refrigeration doors.
- The special feature of this system is the proper software for CRM master controllers and the individual dispatching and visualization system. For the accurate maintenance of the temperature conditions there was installed a control system managing the heating devices together with refrigerating units.
During the installation of these facilities, STEP Group used the equipment of the leading European companies such as Onda (Italy), Danfoss (Denmark), Bitzer (Germany), Castel (Italy), Carel (Italy), and other manufacturing companies, reliability of equipment of which is confirmed by many years of service of such equipment.

During 2014, STEP Group has supplied the shopping and cargo trolleys, shopping baskets, warehouse containers and other products of the company Caddie (France) to the hypermarkets of the chain "Auchan" with the total number of 60,000 pieces.

In 2014, the employees of STEP Group have carried out the shop fittings installation (module shelvings) manufactured by the company LaFortezza (Russia) for the new hypermarkets of the chain "Leroy Merlin" with the total area of 75,935 sq.m.: Novosibirsk (12,600 sq.m.), Moscow (New Riga) (11,600 sq.m.), Krasnoyarsk (10,100 sq.m.), Samara (10,100 sq m.), Zelenograd (10,935 sq. m.), Ufa (9900 sq.m.), St. Petersburg (Bugry) (10,700 sq.m.)

In June 2014, STEP Group has completed the works for fitting out the alcohol products storage chambers (storage temperature +16/+18С) of the company Abrau-Durso with the area of 9200 sq.m. The maintenance of required temperature during the warm season is performed with the use of the air coolers manufactured by Onda (Italy) and the liquid cooling unit manufactured by Climaveneta (Italy) with the refrigerating capacity of 450 kW.

STEP Group has carried out the supply and installation of the shop equipment in stainless steel manufactured by the company Tournus (France) for the hypermarkets of the chain "Auchan". The range of the equipment supplied includes the process room equipment (tables, sinks, sterilizers, cabinets, trolleys, plastic and metal trays) as well as the sales area equipment (counters). The equipment has been supplied to the hypermarkets Auchan, Aviapark, Auchan-city, Ufa Arkada, Auchan Kuntsevo.