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12 Special Refrigeration SystemsSpecial Refrigeration Systems 13Unique productsfor new marketsSpecial Refrigeration Systems is Dometic’s other business area and comprises a series of products,all based on Dometic’s knowledge of special refrigeration solutions. Most of these productsuse Dometic’s unique absorption technology, a technology that unlike other refrigeration technologiesworks without any vibrations or intrusive noises.The most well-known Dometic productswithin this business area are the miniBarfor hotel rooms, compact refrigerators forCompact Living, wine-cellars for vibrationfreelong-term storage and a wide rangeof products for medical refrigeration.Hotel products increaseas the world shrinksDometic’s RV and marine businessesstrive to promote the advantages ofmobile leisure life around the world.However it is the mobility of people, thedesire to seek out new experiences, thatis Dometic’s vision. Dometic’s activitieswithin Special Refrigeration Systems fitwell in this context. Travel costs per kilometreare falling making the world eversmaller in practice. The world’s hotelindustry is recovering after the temporarydownturn during the beginning of thiscentury. The Olympic Games in Chinastimulates the hotel development in whatis potentially the world’s biggest hotelmarket. Established hotel markets arealso facing extensive modernisation aftera number of years of poor room occupancylevels and underinvestments.Dometic’s role is to develop and sellproducts that provide the world’s hotelguests with more comfort and security.MiniBar is a range of hotel room refrigeratorswhich, since Dometic’s launch in the1970s, has been so successful and2005 in brief• Net sales for the business area amountedto SEK 743 (696).• The hotel industry continued its recoveryand sales have developed well, particularlyin Western Europe. In Asia and NorthAmerica, the hotel industry’s recovery hashowever progressed more slowly.• Within Medical Refrigeration Systems,Dometic won a number of importantprestigious orders from global aid organisationsand the pharmaceutical industry.• A new rotation-moulded iceliner has beenlaunched. The iceliner is a compressorcooledbox for storing vaccines. Its supplementaryice-cooling in the form of rodsacts as a cooling buffer in the event of apower cut, maintain the cooling effect formany hours. A new generation miniBarwas launched and part of the miniBarproduction was concentrated to Hungaryfor efficiency and cost reasons.Since 1973, Dometic produces and sells theclassic and trendsetting miniBar, a product thathas been so successful and accepted that it hasgiven its name to an entire category of products.The miniBar is built on the completely silentabsorption technology and is available in numerousstyles and sizes. The product range includesboth advanced miniBars with automatic debitsystems as well as traditional ”honor bars”. TheRH 461 LDG holds 60 liters while the glass doorprovides an inviting presentation its contents.D O M E T I C A N N U A L S U M M A R Y 2 0 0 5accepted that it has given its name to anentire category of products. Dometic’sminiBar continues to dominate its market.Pleasingly, it is not just the mostadvanced miniBars that are in demand asthe classic version also remains successful.During the year a new generationminiBar Classic was launched whilesome of the miniBar production wasD O M E T I C A N N U A L S U M M A R Y 2 0 0 5Travel becoming less expensive, has had a shrinkingeffect on the world, with more and more peopleseeking experiences outside the home as a consequence.The hotel industry is about to undergo significantmodernization following a number of yearswith lower occupancy rates and postponed investments.Apart from the miniBar, Dometic also offerssmaller safes that more and more often are standardequipment in modern hotel rooms.