Rob Jans

After his education HTS (mechanical engineering) Rob started to build up experience at one of the leading Dutch contracting companies in industrial refrigeration. He continued his career at a worldwide company of refrigeration and air-conditioning equipment where Rob was responsible for design and implementation of gas motor driven heat pumps for greenhouses. In the same period he was also active in the chemical- and petrochemical industry where he designed special units on customer request. Projects were located in The Netherlands (DSM), Greece (DOW) and Indonesia (KTI).

The next step in his career was to become sales manager for a compressor manufacturer situated in the UK. As a sales manager Rob was made responsible for sales of screw compressor-packages and units in The Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland and Austria. The last seventeen years Rob was employed as technical manager for one of the leading Dutch contractors in commercial refrigeration.
 

Within the Dutch refrigeration industry Rob Jans is a well known person because of several lectures given at sessions of the NVvK and a number of articles published in the RCC ( the official journal of the NVvK ). Internationally he became known through his membership of a one of the working groups within the IIR (ice slurries). He is a long term member of ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Inc), IIR ( International Institute of Refrigeration ) where he participates in the working group Ice slurries of Professor Michael Kauffeld , NVvK (Dutch society for refrigeration) and C-dig (Carbon dioxide interest group).
 

Rob has studied HTS ( mechanical engineering ), Advanced refrigeration engineering, advanced air handling engineering, realization and fulfillment of export transactions, ABO (general business orientation), VABO (continued business orientation) and non-conventional energy technologies. He speaks fluent Dutch, English, German and some French.