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More members for Move to -15°C

[ June 26, 2025   //   ]

Eighteen months from its launch, the Move to -15°C Coalition has now expanded from 11 founding members to 55 organisations. The grouping, recently convened in London to reaffirm its mission to explore and enable a temperature shift in frozen food logistics from -18°C to -15°C. This could cut global emissions by 17.7 million tonnes of CO₂ annually, without compromising food safety.

Recent additions include IKEA, Arbi Dario, Samworth Brothers, Titan Containers, ZIM, Aviko, Apetito, Greenyard Frozen, Thistle Seafoods, Prodalim, Farmfrites, Denholm Group, Pacific International Lines, Atalanta Corporation, Vestey Holdings, and the University of Oxford’s Energy and Power Group.

It research includes the Three Degrees of Change report and an 18-month trial by Nomad Foods and Campden BRI. These studies suggest that increasing the frozen food temperature set point from -18°C to -15°C does not compromise food safety or quality across a range of products, with microbial activity remaining inactive below -12°C and no significant impact observed on taste, texture, or nutrition.

In parallel with longer-term efforts, members are identifying areas where temperature optimisation is already possible within current operations and regulatory boundaries, for example, moving from -22°C to -18°C in certain segments of the cold chain.

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