Industrial refrigeration projects — engineering, delivery and financing
ColdMatch sources industrial refrigeration projects worldwide: ammonia and CO₂ plants, IQF tunnels, process cooling, blast freezers and full plant refits. Independent, EPC-agnostic and financing-ready.
What ColdMatch delivers
- NH₃, CO₂, cascade and low-charge refrigeration plants
- Process cooling for food, dairy, beverage, meat and seafood plants
- Blast freezing, IQF and hardening tunnels
- Retrofit, plant upgrade and refrigerant conversion projects
- Financing for plant, installation and commissioning
ColdMatch helps buyers prepare cold chain RFQs and source suitable suppliers.
Directory pages are for discovery and SEO. ColdMatch is not an automatic marketplace and does not directly connect buyers with refrigeration manufacturers — supplier matching and introductions are managed manually by ColdMatch.
- 1. You submit a cold room, cold storage, industrial refrigeration, pharma cold chain, food logistics or mobile cold room request.
- 2. ColdMatch reviews your request and prepares the project brief — temperature range, product type, country, size, budget and operational needs.
- 3. Only after the brief is understood, ColdMatch searches for suitable suppliers.
- 4. David continues with you personally and introduces suppliers only when relevant.
Supplier and manufacturer listings are provided for research, transparency and discovery only. ColdMatch Group does not provide automatic buyer-supplier introductions. Every cold chain project request is reviewed manually by David / ColdMatch Group, and supplier introductions are made only after internal approval.
What are the stages of an industrial refrigeration project?
Load survey and duty definition, concept design and refrigerant selection, budget and business case, tender and supplier comparison, detailed engineering, manufacture and delivery, mechanical and electrical installation, pressure testing and charging, commissioning under load, operator training and handover. Weak load definition at stage one is the single most common cause of re-pricing later.
How is refrigeration load calculated for a project?
Total load combines transmission through walls, roof and floor, product pull-down and respiration heat, air infiltration through doors and dock openings, fan, defrost, lighting and personnel loads, plus a design margin. Frozen duty, high door traffic and hot-humid ambients push installed capacity well above the naive volume-based estimate, which is why comparable quotes require throughput data, not just m³.
When should ammonia, CO2 or an HFO system be considered?
Ammonia suits large single-site industrial loads above roughly 300 kW where a machinery room, trained operators and safety compliance are viable — it delivers the best efficiency per kW installed. Transcritical CO2 suits mid-size and cooler-climate sites and locations where ammonia is restricted; performance improves with parallel compression or ejectors in hot climates. HFO or blended synthetic systems suit smaller, distributed or unattended plant where an operator regime is not practical.
What redundancy should an industrial plant have?
Match redundancy to the cost of a loss event. Multi-compressor plant with N+1 capacity, dual condenser circuits, dual refrigerant paths on critical rooms, generator-backed control and alarm systems, and mapped restart procedures. For pharmaceutical and high-value frozen inventory, backup generation for the full refrigeration load is normal; for short-dwell chilled goods, thermal inertia may cover a short outage.
- •150–500 kW packaged plant for a processing line
- •500 kW–2 MW central plant serving multiple temperature zones
- •2 MW+ multi-stage plant with heat recovery
- •Plant replacement or refrigerant conversion on a live site
Exact system sizing depends on required temperature, ambient climate, product load and turnover rate, door openings, insulation specification, storage duration, redundancy level and operating hours. ColdMatch does not manufacture equipment — we help industrial buyers compare suitable suppliers and technologies against project-specific technical and commercial requirements.
- •Country, project location and site status (greenfield or existing building)
- •Application and product stored or processed
- •Required temperature range and any humidity requirement
- •Storage capacity (m², m³ or pallet positions) and daily throughput
- •Ambient/design climate conditions at site
- •Available power supply and backup or redundancy requirement
- •Preferred refrigerant, if already defined by policy or regulation
- •Indicative budget range and target commissioning date
- •Duty per temperature level and peak simultaneous load
- •Existing plant to be retained, replaced or run in parallel
- •Machinery room availability and operator competence on site
- •Acceptable shutdown window for tie-in and commissioning
Frequently asked questions
How ColdMatch Group works — independent B2B procurement and sourcing platform — ColdMatch Group is an independent B2B procurement and sourcing platform for industrial refrigeration, cold storage and cold-chain projects from USD $250K+, connecting buyers with qualified third-party suppliers, EPC contractors and independent financing providers.
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