The condense absorbing insulated cover or bread thermo cover is used to maintain the temperature of temperature controlled goods, specially heated products, which are loaded on a roller container. The disadvantage of heated products is that it creates condense at the inside of the cover. This condense turns into water drops. To prevent this condense water from floating on the floor or on to the food products, the no-condense insulated cover is foreseen with a special condense absorbing system. A soon as heated air is condensing against the colder outer temperatures, the condense system will absorb the created condense so no water drops will appear. The cover will therefore offer a temperature protection and a condense protection so the temperature sensitive products as fresh baked bread stays on the required temperature and will not get fluffy due to condense. Once the cover is back at the distribution point, a room temperature of ca 18°c will dry the cover so that it can be reused.

The condense absorbing insulated cover is mostly used by industrial bakeries. To prevent the temperature from sinking to fast, which influences the quality of the fresh bread, insulated covers are used. Yet because of the condense water, the bread turns from crispy to floating which the customers do not want. So to keep the bread crispy, the condense water must be taken away. This is being created by the 'Krautz' no-condense insulated cover.

Most roller containers have bottoms which are not completely closed so air can flow through these openings. Therefore it is very important to seal or insulate the bottom of the container before loading the chilled or frozen products. An insulated bottom will increase the temperature results significant. To insulate the bottom a single use or on-way use insulation or cardboard can be used. See Insulation

When a roller container is filled, it can happen that the roller container is not completely filled. Yet the roller containers have sidebars which stand higher than the filled goods. This means that air can remain in the roller container between the goods and the top of the insulated cover. The amount of air will influence the temperature preservation and temperature result. The more air in the roller container, the lesser the temperature result will be. Notice that volume and mass of the loaded goods is the basic item for long or successful temperature preservation. Next to the volume of air in the roller container also the temperature of the air in the roller container determines the temperature preservation or temperature result. If the temperature of the goods is +2°C and the air within the roller container and thermo cover is +18°C, then this +18°C will have an impact on the temperature of the goods. Therefore it is important that the conditioned goods are loaded in the same conditioned chamber and that the insulated cover is pulled over the roller container in the conditioned chamber so no warm air is packed together with cooled goods.

To store the insulated covers or thermo covers for roller containers, the covers can be produced with special straps on the four corners of the roof so the cover can be hung-up on specials storage containers. The storage systems make sure that the covers are always stored at the same location and that the covers or not lying on the floor becoming dirty.

The thermo covers are made out of strong yet light weight materials so they can provide a long duration of life. Supermarkets and transport companies who are using the thermo covers experience a lifetime between 3 and 5 years.

The used foils in the thermo covers are water resistant so they can be easily cleaned which is important for the hygiene when the cover is used for food or pharmaceutical goods.

If the cover is used for one way or re-usable purposes the cover can be provided with several tracking and tracing systems as unique numbers, barcode or RFID technologies. Krautz develops tailor made software solutions for tracking and tracing systems. See page : Track & trace