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Product Showcase www.jobsfor teams.com JOBS for TEAMS | 28 T he new Vector™ 8600MT hybrid unit from Carrier Transicold advances multi-temperature trailer refrigeration with new smart remote evapora- tors that improve opera- tional efficiencies and reli- ability, and enable easier, more flex- ible installation. Carrier Transicold helps improve global transport and shipping temperature control with a complete line of equipment for refrig- erated trucks, trailers and contain- ers, and is a part of UTC Building & Industrial Systems, a unit of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX). The Vector 8600MT is the first com- mercially available multi-temperature trailer refrigeration unit that meets the 2013 EPA Tier 4 standard. "The innovative engineering that went into the Vector 8600MT unit and its new smart remote evaporators provides our food distribution and supermarket customers with significant benefits," said David Appel, president, Carrier Transicold & Refrigeration Systems. "These improve- ments will help customers in the key areas of reducing fuel consumption and maintenance costs, environmental com- pliance, quiet operation, lower total cost of ownership, and trailer configuration flexibility." Carrier Transicold's third-gen- eration Vector multi-temperature refrigeration system for North America, the Vector 8600MT shares key attributes of its recently introduced single-tem- perature sibling, the Vector 8500 unit. Both provide significantly reduced weight, improved fuel economy and greater refrigeration capacity. The new Vector models are also the first North American trailer units to use a fully hermetic electric scroll compressor. Proven efficient and reliable in Carrier Transicold refrigerated marine container systems, the scroll compressor has 70 percent fewer moving parts and is 200 pounds lighter than a traditional recip- rocating compressor, contributing to the host unit's overall 10 percent weight reduction compared to its predecessor. With the Vector 8600MT, one or two remote evaporators can be added to the host system, enabling a total of up to three refrigerated compartments within a single trailer, each maintained at a differ- ent temperature set point. "We call our new remotes smart evapo- rators because they each have an integral control module that communicates with the main APX™ control system," said Bertrand Gueguen, president, Global Truck/Trailer, Carrier Transicold. "It's part of Carrier Transicold's unique distributed Carrier Transicold Introduces Hybrid Vector ™ 8600MT Multi-Temperature System With New Smart Remote Evaporators JFT0314_ProductShowcase.indd 1 2/6/14 8:57 AM