Staff restaurants, hospitals and school canteens are benefiting from the new Snowline technology, a joint development by Messer and its partner Electrocalorique. Centrally prepared meals are chilled in special carts during transportation to the consumer and later heated automatically. An integrated computer system regulates the temperature through the injection of dry ice snow. The heating element is only activated shortly before consumption, thus ensuring that the fresh part of the meal is cool while the cooked part is served hot.