AKO Group

Refrigeration controls and safety

AKO Group manufactures control, monitoring, and safety solutions for commercial and industrial refrigeration systems. Its catalog includes controllers for cold rooms and refrigeration services, electronic control panels, thermometers and programmable thermostats, refrigerant-gas leak detection systems, man-down alarms, heating cable for refrigeration installations, and the AKONET.Cloud monitoring and control platform.

The company organizes its offerings by market: commercial refrigeration for supermarkets, hypermarkets, convenience stores, pharmacies, and hospitality; industrial refrigeration for food and pharmaceutical manufacturing; and temperature-controlled logistics.

Featured solutions

• Refrigeration-system monitoring and management.
• Energy efficiency: the company says its AKOCORE advanced control with Self-Drive® technology can cut a system's electricity use by up to 13%.
• Refrigerant reduction and monitoring: the company says early leak detection can prevent up to 95% of leaks and that maintaining the correct refrigerant level can reduce electricity use by up to 40%.
• Temperature and humidity regulation and control.
• Cold-chain management.
• Facility safety, including man-down alarms and gas detection.

Products

Product families include AKOCORE, AKOPRO, AKOCONTROL, AKODATA, AKOGAS, AKOSECURE, AKONECT, AKONET.Cloud, AKOALARM, CAMREGIS, and AKOCABLE. The company also maintains a discontinued-products section.

Locations and international operations

Headquarters are at Av. Roquetes 30/38, 08812 Sant Pere de Ribes, Barcelona, Spain. The group has an international company in Mexico City (AKO Electromecánica México, S.A. de C.V.) and regional operations covering Europe, the Middle East and Africa; Asia and the Pacific; and North America and Latin America. In Spain, it has teams in the Northeast, Levant, Northwest, Central, Southern, and Northern regions.

Contact

• Head office: +34 938 142 700 · ako@ako.com
• Customer service and technical support: +34 938 115 800 · sac@ako.com
• Fax: +34 938 934 054
• EMEA: emea@ako.com
• Asia and Pacific: a&p@ako.com
• North America and Latin America: nhla@ako.com
• Northeast region: nordeste@ako.com
• Levant region: +34 670 448 209 · levante@ako.com
• Northwest region: +34 670 448 209 · noroeste@ako.com
• Central region: +34 670 448 209 · ako@ako.com
• Southern region: +34 646 525 758 · ako@ako.com
• Northern region: +34 670 448 209 · ako@ako.com

Additional information

AKO has participated in the ICEX Next program with support from ICEX and co-funding from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). Recent collaborations include a project with the Sant Pere de Ribes City Council and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (FRED-HUB), a case study with E.Leclerc Pamplona, and a technology partnership with Serveo to monitor food temperatures in real time using 5G IoT technology.