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Posted: March 17, 2025

Cold Storage and Refrigeration: Commercial Propane’s Role in Temperature Control

Let’s Look at a New Way the Fuel is Being Used

commercial propane Cheshire County, NHIt is incredibly common to find businesses here in central Massachusetts and Southern New Hampshire using commercial propane to help get a wide variety of jobs done. This includes powering forklifts, providing heat, warming water, and firing up cooking equipment. Companies nationwide have been using commercial propane in this capacity for quite some time.

Now, a somewhat newer trend is on the rise—using commercial propane as a refrigerant. Want to learn more? Fraticelli Oil & Propane can help with that!

Propane and Industrial Refrigeration

Even though propane has been a commonly used fuel since the early 1990s, it has only recently started to be used as a refrigerant that can effectively cool and preserve products. Commercial propane, which is referred to as R-290 in the refrigeration industry, is now considered a greener and cleaner alternative to the synthetic refrigerants that people have been using for years to help with cooling processes within their businesses.

Commercial propane is being used as a refrigerant to preserve both perishable food items and pharmaceuticals. The fuel also helps refrigeration systems maintain precise temperature control, which is important to the quality and safety of certain foods.

Beverage manufacturers are using commercial propane to keep their beverages chilled during the production and storage stages of manufacturing.

Additionally, commercial propane is used in industrial freezers and ice-making machines to help keep temperatures down.

Additional Commercial Propane Applications

Being used as a refrigerant is hardly the only way a business can use commercial propane. The fuel can also:

Why Commercial Propane is Being Used by All These Industries

Based on all the many ways commercial propane can be used by a wide variety of businesses and industries, you have probably already gathered that the fuel is incredibly versatile. Its versatility also makes it very convenient.

In addition to being incredibly versatile, commercial propane is also extremely safe, efficient, cost-effective, accessible, reliable, eco-friendly, and it doesn’t expire or deteriorate over time.

Commercial Propane from Fraticelli Oil & Propane

Whatever kind of business you may have here in southern New Hampshire or central Massachusetts, Fraticelli Oil & Propane can get you the commercial propane you need to keep your company up and running. In fact, we are the most trusted provider of commercial propane in the area.

When you choose to make Fraticelli Oil & Propane your fuel provider, we work with you to set up a tailor-made bulk propane delivery plan that works for you and your business. The 60,000 gallons of onsite propane storage we have allows us to get our customers the commercial propane they need when they need it.

Contact Fraticelli Oil & Propane today to set up commercial propane services from a local company that simply cannot be beat.