Frost-trol founder dies

SPAIN: Roberto Nicolás Solsona Castillo, founder of commercial refrigeration manufacturer Frost-trol, has died. He was 88.

Solsona formed Frost-trol in 1957 as a business mainly carrying out cold room installations. The company became a Spanish pioneer in the manufacture of metal refrigerated cases and the use of hermetic compressors, launching its first remote refrigerated cabinets in 1975.