About Us

  • ACT/BTU has served the vegetable industry for 30 years. 
  • Our core employees have over 200 years of combined ventilation/refrigeration experience.
  • BTU manufactures 75% of their equipment. 90% of all materials/parts are made in the USA .
  • Only the highest industry standards are applied to our ventilation and refrigeration designs.
  • Our team of engineers, designers and technicians are committed to valued development and implementation of the new technologies.  
  • With our industry experience, we have developed new pioneering designs  that bring measureable value to the ventilation and refrigeration for  the benefit of both customer and vegetable industry.
  • Our systems are of the highest quality and specifically designed for use in the vegetable industry.
  • In today’s industries remote monitoring/alarming systems are essential for success- we currently have over 1000 customer using our online monitoring feature to manage their investments.
  • In today’s industries, energy efficiency is expected. Our systems can help you achieve savings of 35-65% annually.
  • Our Southeast USA representative: Robert Drozdowski has 30 years of experience in ventilation and refrigeration service, design, research and development.

 

13 things you need to know about ACT/BTU Ventilation and Refrigeration.

  • We are competitive locally   
  • We design ventilation and refrigeration using industry ventilation standards
  • We are in vegetable ventilation business for 30 years, our core staff has over 200 years of vegetable ventilation experience with multiple locations and several dealers through USA and Canada
  • We use ventilation equipment designed for potato storage environment – so it will last
  • We have remote control software – web based and apple/android app  –  with alarm and text, graphs and live data capabilities to make your life easier and to provide you with micro management tools
  • We are permanently located in Memphis, Tennessee serving whole SE USA -mainly Sweet Potato Growers for the past 10 years
  • We have a subcontractors in Vardaman, Mississippi and Arkansas to install our equipment and setup Potato storage systems
  • We have 200 sweet potato computer control systems thru AR, MS, LA, AL, WI, CA and overseas – that is just over last 10 years of operation
  • We use energy efficiency equipment in ventilation and refrigeration delivering 35-75% in energy savings annually with 0.5-3 year paybacks on the efficiency equipment purchased
  • We continually strive to find most suitable equipment possible at affordable price with 2 year or more warranty
  • We use evaporative cooling units for humidification – no free water in air 
  • Our control panels have sophisticated VFD controls (variable speed drive – for main/exhaust circulation fans), CO2, humidity, refrigeration and outside air control systems built in, they work well in sweet potato systems thought SE USA and beyond and we continue working with our growers to improve them, web access and apple/android apps as well for your portable devices.