REFRISAT is a Brazilian company founded in 1976, originated by the expressed need of the domestic industry in the acquisition of special products for thermal control.
A story that began with the arrival of the family of its founders to Brazil in the 70s, especially because they lived a period of political instability and civil war in the southern region of the African continent. The founding partners are part of two generations of the same family of Portuguese nationality, arriving in Brazil with difficulties caused by the sudden change.
The vast experience in the refrigeration field brought from South Africa was undoubtedly the greatest facilitator in introducing the partners to the equipment manufacturing industry for thermal control in the country. In adverse and with limited financial resources conditions, they immediately began to regularize the stay in the country, starting to disclose their specialties in the refrigeration industry for potential Brazilian clients.
With the support of special people, they managed indications for the provision of services in establishments of food preservation, small industries of plastic injection, among other small businesses.
The refrigeration in molds by cold water compact equipment was not too wellknown, and a solution that unites a refrigeration system together with the hydraulic system, in that case, it was something so efficient that could provide consolidation and growth during the subsequent months, leading to expansion and to the move of the small headquarters located in Santana (district of Sao Paulo), whose corporate name tributes (Santana Refrigeração e Instrumentação ltda.).
Following the modernization and development of the Brazilian industry, and given the strong demand in generating solutions for thermal control, the founders decided to move the company headquarters in 1994 to the city of Guarulhos in the such as called “big metropolitan” São Paulo, improving logistical issues.
In 2019 REFRISAT was acquired by the HBR holding group. A holding company with more than three decades’ experience, with a broad portfolio of products and solutions, in addition to a diversified and international performance, recognized for quality, seriousness, ethics and excellence in everything they do.
In addition to REFRISAT, the group already has the brands HBR, Oceânica, Tegris, ENER, Fieldlink and Air Delivery. A larger and more diversified structure contributes to better deliveries, more technology and the views of lots of novelties and technology.
After all, REFRISAT’s success is due to the continuous investment in training and professional improvement of employees, in addition to the modernization of processes and technological improvement of its products, always with the objective of obtaining progressive and sustainable growth in a market leadership position.