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So which company benefits the most here? From a cursory googling the following seem decent: - The Whirlpool Corporation - Electrolux AB - LG Electronics Inc.

So which company benefits the most here? From a cursory googling the following seem decent: - The Whirlpool Corporation - Electrolux AB - LG Electronics Inc. problem is these companies have a lot of exposure to other sectors as well of course.

jefe_ 6y ago
Thermo Fisher Scientific has freezers that hit these temps. About $10-20k per unit it appears. https://www.fishersci.com/us/en/browse/90106033/ultra-low-temperature-freezers https://www.fishersci.com/us/en/browse/90106033/ultra-low-te...
- jeffal 6y ago
  Yes, I've been in biotechs that had 100s of these freezers in a room.
- pvitz 6y ago
  Pfizer mentioned them already in May and their stock has already seen an increase of more than 50%...
- kgwgk 6y ago
  TMO was down 8% yesterday, the perspective of less testing seems to more than offset the positive impact of the news.
gezh 6y ago
https://www.skycell.ch/ https://www.skycell.ch/
- Zenbit_UX 6y ago
  That company couldn't be more irrelevant to the discussion. They specialize in keeping airplane food at between +2c to +8c on the tarmac in places like Dubai.
robjan 6y ago
Probably the airlines who will both be dealing with the logistics and be able to return to BAU quicker because of the vaccine. For example, American Airlines is up 25% premarket today and IAG (owner of British Airways) is up nearly 30%.
jashephe 6y ago
Based on this NYT article [1], some logistics companies planning to store and transport the vaccine are using freezers from Stirling Ultracold. It may just be a curiosity, but their freezers (as the name would suggest) use bona fide Stirling engines rather than the typical two-stage compressors used in most ULT freezers. As someone in life science research who uses plenty of -80 freezers, I've always been curious about Stirling Ultracold. Maybe they're on to something after all. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/business/coronavirus-covid-vaccine-cold-frozen-logistics.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/business/coronavirus-covi...
- KMag 6y ago
  Nit: Stirling cryocoolers, not Stirling engines. Thermodynamically, it's just reversed. You're driving mechanical/electrical power in to get a thermal difference, not dissipating a thermal difference to get mechanical work/electrical power out.
- bluGill 6y ago
  gas-liquide cycle freezers typically do not have enough of a temperature gradiants to work. Normal freon (R-whatever you have heard of) don't get cold enough. That isn't to say you can't make one, but stirling cycle is not much worse so just use it.

jefe_ 6y ago

Thermo Fisher Scientific has freezers that hit these temps. About $10-20k per unit it appears. https://www.fishersci.com/us/en/browse/90106033/ultra-low-temperature-freezers https://www.fishersci.com/us/en/browse/90106033/ultra-low-te...

jeffal 6y ago
Yes, I've been in biotechs that had 100s of these freezers in a room.
pvitz 6y ago
Pfizer mentioned them already in May and their stock has already seen an increase of more than 50%...
kgwgk 6y ago
TMO was down 8% yesterday, the perspective of less testing seems to more than offset the positive impact of the news.

gezh 6y ago

https://www.skycell.ch/ https://www.skycell.ch/

Zenbit_UX 6y ago
That company couldn't be more irrelevant to the discussion. They specialize in keeping airplane food at between +2c to +8c on the tarmac in places like Dubai.

robjan 6y ago

Probably the airlines who will both be dealing with the logistics and be able to return to BAU quicker because of the vaccine. For example, American Airlines is up 25% premarket today and IAG (owner of British Airways) is up nearly 30%.

jashephe 6y ago

Based on this NYT article [1], some logistics companies planning to store and transport the vaccine are using freezers from Stirling Ultracold. It may just be a curiosity, but their freezers (as the name would suggest) use bona fide Stirling engines rather than the typical two-stage compressors used in most ULT freezers. As someone in life science research who uses plenty of -80 freezers, I've always been curious about Stirling Ultracold. Maybe they're on to something after all. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/business/coronavirus-covid-vaccine-cold-frozen-logistics.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/business/coronavirus-covi...

KMag 6y ago
Nit: Stirling cryocoolers, not Stirling engines. Thermodynamically, it's just reversed. You're driving mechanical/electrical power in to get a thermal difference, not dissipating a thermal difference to get mechanical work/electrical power out.
bluGill 6y ago
gas-liquide cycle freezers typically do not have enough of a temperature gradiants to work. Normal freon (R-whatever you have heard of) don't get cold enough. That isn't to say you can't make one, but stirling cycle is not much worse so just use it.