Ext. dim. : 800 x 1200 x 1860 mm,
Volume : 885 L,
Cold sources : eutectic plate TOP 900 et SiberSnow ®,
Logistics format : Euro-pallet 800 x 1200
View detailsWhy choose Olivo Logistic for your insulated containers?
When the time comes to choose an insulated container supplier, the temptation to think solely in terms of unit price is strong. It’s human. It’s also a strategic mistake that many logistics departments end up regretting.
Because an insulated container is not a consumable you replace every six months. It is a structural link in your cold chain, a piece of equipment that determines the regulatory compliance of your flows, the sanitary quality of your products and, ultimately, the trust of your own clients.
The choice of the partner who designs and builds it therefore involves far more than a simple commercial transaction. Olivo, France’s leading manufacturer of insulated containers, has held this conviction since 1956. And seven decades later, it has lost none of its relevance.
A French manufacturer with 70 years of industrial expertise
From 1956 to today: expertise forged in the field
Seventy years. In an industrial sector where players emerge, get bought out and disappear with economic cycles, that longevity says something. It says that Olivo has weathered the transformations of refrigerated transport, supported the rise of large-scale retail, absorbed successive regulatory tightenings and integrated the growing demands of the modern cold chain. Not as a spectator, but as a manufacturer, hands in the material.
French industrial roots are not a hollow marketing argument. They mean integrated manufacturing and complete control of the production process, from design to final assembly. Concretely, this translates into a responsiveness that offshored models simply cannot offer: technical adjustments, industry-specific customizations, product range developments driven by the field.
And then there is what decades bring and no fundraising round can buy: intimate knowledge of real-world constraints. Those of loading docks at five in the morning, multi-temperature rounds in city centers, the sanitary requirements of a central kitchen delivering three hundred meals a day to schools. This expertise cannot be improvised. It is built, year after year, in contact with the professionals who use this equipment every day.
An R&D center dedicated to insulation innovation
Many manufacturers talk about innovation. Few maintain an in-house research and development center dedicated exclusively to insulation and the cold chain. At Olivo, this choice is not incidental. It is the engine of a capacity for anticipation that makes the difference over the long term.
The SIBER SYSTEM® cryogenic solutions are the most telling illustration: a cold refill station, dual-temperature cryogenic refrigeration, CO2 snow production by expansion of liquid CO2. These technologies were not born from brainstorming disconnected from reality. They address operational problems identified with clients, tested in real conditions, then industrialized with the rigor of a manufacturer that stakes its reputation on every piece of equipment delivered.
Tri-temperature transport in a standard truck, for example. Who would have bet, a few years ago, that frozen, fresh and ambient products could be delivered in the same vehicle without a dedicated refrigerated compartment? Yet it is an operational reality, born from Olivo’s R&D and validated in the field by leading retail chains.
A complete range for every logistics need
Roll, crate, box: three formats for every transport configuration
The versatility of a range is measured by its ability to cover very different uses without compromising on performance. Olivo structures its insulated container offering around three families, each designed for a specific set of constraints.
The insulated roll, in an upright cabinet format, is the reference container for food distribution and institutional catering. Its design allows custom interior fittings, notably with a catering rack to organize preparations on several levels. The insulated crate, in a chest format, is optimized for delivering bulk products. It is also the format favored by cryogenics players for transporting dry ice blocks, pellets and sticks. Finally, the insulated box, a range made of expanded polypropylene, was created to meet the challenges of last-mile delivery, driven by e-commerce and short supply chains. It combines light weight, insulation performance and robustness.
What strikes you when you look at this range as a whole is its coherence. Each format fits into a global ecosystem where cold sources, accessories and services are designed to work together. No makeshift fixes, no mismatched assemblies. An integrated system, designed by one and the same manufacturer.
High-performance, well-matched cold sources
An insulated container without a suitable cold source is an empty shell. Or rather a lukewarm shell, which amounts to the same thing when talking about the cold chain.
Long-lasting eutectic plates form the foundation of Olivo’s professional cold accumulator offering. Robust and reusable, they ensure reliable temperature maintenance without depending on an external energy source during transport. Their service life and effectiveness are not brochure promises: they are confirmed by years of use in the field, sometimes in harsh logistics conditions. They are not a consumable, they follow an investment logic.
For applications requiring higher cooling power or greater flexibility, the SIBER SYSTEM® cryogenic solutions open up possibilities that few players on the market can offer. CO2 snow production, dual-temperature refrigeration, a cold refill station: these technologies make it possible to match the refrigeration response precisely to the need, no more, no less. And in a context where energy efficiency is no longer a luxury but a necessity, that precision makes all the difference.
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Ext. dim. : 1200 x 800 x 1085 mm,
Volume : 417 L,
Cold source : eutectic plate TOP 900,
Logistics format : Euro-pallet 800 x 1200
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Ext. dim. : 800 x 1200 x 1270 mm,
Volume : 516 L,
Cold source : eutectic plate TOP 900,
Logistics format : Euro-pallet 800 x 1200
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A partner, not a mere supplier
Support across the container’s entire life cycle
Here is perhaps the most structural question a logistics manager or procurement director can ask: are you looking for an insulated container supplier, or a partner in your cold chain logistics? The nuance is not rhetorical. It changes everything.
A supplier delivers you a product. Olivo supports you across that product’s entire life cycle. Maintenance and repair to extend its operating life. Support with ATP renewal, the European regulatory certification that every transporter of perishable goods must keep up to date. And at the end of the journey, recycling and end-of-life management as part of a fully embraced circular economy approach.
Translated into procurement language, this means a total cost of ownership kept under control over time. Fewer suppliers to manage, fewer contacts to coordinate, fewer risks of a break in the service chain. A single partner that knows your equipment because it designed it, built it, and continues to follow it. Operational simplicity is not a slogan. It’s a measurable daily time saving.
Listening that shapes tailored solutions
At Olivo, listening is not a value statement displayed in a reception hall. It is a working method. Every logistics deployment has its own constraints, its own field particularities, its own requirements that only in-depth dialogue can pinpoint accurately.
Take the case of Colruyt. The retailer faced a challenge many would have deemed unrealistic: handling tri-temperature delivery with a standard truck, without a conventional refrigerated compartment.
Different field, different proof. Delhaize, in Serbia. Milutin Savkovic, supply chain support manager, sums up the experience with a frankness worth more than any sales pitch: “The product is good. The product’s service life exceeds 6 years. The eutectic plates are also effective and robust.” Six years. In real operating conditions, not in a laboratory. That kind of field feedback cannot be manufactured.
Regulatory compliance as a permanent commitment
ATP and sanitary standards: built-in regulatory expertise
The regulation of temperature-controlled transport is not a side issue. It is a foundation. The Agreement on the Transport of Perishable Foodstuffs, better known by the acronym ATP, strictly governs the conditions under which perishable goods may be transported in Europe. And the consequences of non-compliance go beyond a fine: the credibility of your entire logistics chain is at stake.
Olivo builds this regulatory dimension into every stage. From container design, engineered to meet ATP requirements from the outset, to support with certification renewals. For institutional catering players and central kitchens, HACCP compliance adds to these obligations. For the healthcare sector, GDP (Good Distribution Practice) requirements set the bar. In every case, the reliability of temperature maintenance is non-negotiable.
Anticipating regulatory changes rather than enduring them
Enduring a regulatory change means having to adapt your equipment in a rush, with all the costs and disruption that entails. Anticipating it means having a partner for whom regulatory monitoring is a permanent reflex, and who builds upcoming changes into its product designs before they even become mandatory.
That is exactly Olivo’s stance. Seventy years of regulatory history give a capacity to read normative trends that more recent players simply don’t have. For quality and compliance departments, this proactivity represents precious security. You don’t choose an insulation partner for the current year. You choose one for the next ten.
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Responsible, committed cold chain logistics
Efficiency, durability and the circular economy
Let’s talk about the environment. But let’s talk about it seriously, with facts, not slogans. Olivo’s environmental responsibility is not just a “commitments” page on a website. It takes shape in concrete, verifiable industrial choices.
Product longevity, first. An insulated container that lasts twelve years is a container you don’t replace, don’t remanufacture, don’t ship from the other side of the world to make up for a premature failure. Reuse and maintenance extend this useful life even further. And when the container truly reaches the end of the road, Olivo handles its recycling within a controlled circular economy approach, while providing its clients with a certificate of destruction.
Beyond the product itself, the entire logistics philosophy is part of this approach. Flow pooling and multimodality are not abstract concepts at Olivo. They are operational levers for decarbonization, deployed with clients to concretely reduce the number of vehicles on the road and optimize every cubic meter transported.
Solutions that reduce the carbon footprint of temperature-controlled transport
Optimizing loads with containers designed to stack, nest and combine in multimodal configurations. Designing equipment whose extended service life mechanically limits the pace of renewal and therefore the consumption of resources. Offering passive cooling solutions that reduce dependence on energy-hungry refrigeration units.
Each of these dimensions helps reduce the carbon footprint of temperature-controlled transport. Not in theory, but in daily delivery rounds, in warehouses, on loading docks. And this is precisely what distinguishes a credible environmental commitment from window dressing: the ability to combine economic performance and ecological responsibility without one coming at the expense of the other. For CSR departments, that’s an argument that carries weight. Because it is measurable.
European references that speak for themselves
A manufacturer’s promises are worth only as much as the results its clients observe. On that ground, Olivo has an asset many envy: first-rate references, deployed in demanding and varied logistics contexts across Europe.
Delhaize in Serbia, where Olivo containers have proven their robustness beyond six years of intensive operation. Colruyt in Belgium, where the co-construction of a tri-temperature solution in a standard truck opened new perspectives for the entire food distribution sector. These cases are not staged showcases. They are real, documented deployments whose results are confirmed by the operational teams who live with them every day.
This European reach demonstrates a capacity for support that extends beyond French borders. Multilingual presence, understanding of local regulatory contexts, adaptation to the logistics specifics of each market: over the years, Olivo has built a network of trust that speaks for itself.
Ultimately, choosing Olivo for your insulated containers means choosing a manufacturer that refuses to limit itself to selling a product. It means drawing on 70 years of French industrial expertise, an R&D team that anticipates rather than follows, a range designed as a coherent ecosystem, and an environmental commitment proven by facts. Above all, it means choosing a partner that will still be there in ten years, at your side, to maintain, adapt and evolve your cold chain logistics. Because a responsible, high-performance cold chain cannot be decreed. It is built, together, over time.
Would you like to discuss your logistics challenges and find out how Olivo can address them? Our teams are ready to listen and to build, with you, the insulated solution suited to your constraints and your ambitions.
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