Mobile cold rooms — portable & containerized refrigerated units
Mobile and containerized cold rooms for events, disaster relief, humanitarian vaccine chain, farm harvest surge, fisheries, film production, retail overflow and mobile pharma clinics. From 20ft / 40ft reefer conversions to purpose-built modular skid-mounted cold rooms — chilled, frozen and ultra-low, with mains, diesel, hybrid or solar power packs — rented or sold globally.
- Portable, containerized and skid-mounted cold rooms
- -80°C ULT vaccine to +25°C CRT pharma bands
- Grid, genset, solar or hybrid power packs
- 24–72 hr in-country dispatch from stocked depots
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Mobile Cold Rooms — frequently asked
What is a mobile cold room?
A mobile cold room is a portable refrigerated enclosure — 20ft / 40ft reefer container, skid-mounted modular unit, trailer-mounted cold room or panel-built rapid-deploy cold room — that can be delivered, connected to power and running in-spec within 24–72 hours. Temperature range spans +25°C CRT down to -80°C ultra-low, matching event, humanitarian, pharma and industrial use cases.
What sizes are available?
Standard: 20ft ISO reefer (28 m³ / ~10 EU pallets), 40ft HC (67 m³ / ~24 EU pallets), 45ft HC (86 m³). Modular skid-mounted: 6 m³, 12 m³, 24 m³ walk-in configurations. Multi-unit deployments scale to 1,000+ m³ using linked containers or clustered modular pods with a common refrigeration plant.
How is a mobile cold room powered?
Four options: mains 380–460 V / 50–60 Hz 3-phase (~15 kW peak per 40ft reefer); diesel or gas genset (fuel-costly, ideal for short deployments); PV + battery hybrid (best 20-year TCO on continuous deployments); hybrid PV + grid + genset (zero-downtime for critical pharma or food safety loads).
How fast can a mobile cold room be delivered?
In-country: 24–72 hours from stocked reefer depots or modular manufacturer warehouses. Cross-border: 2–4 weeks including customs and last-mile. Emergency and humanitarian deployments can be pre-positioned via ColdMatch partner network and shipped within 48 hours in most regions.
Rent vs buy — which makes more sense?
Rent when demand is temporary (< 12 months): events, seasonal harvest, disaster response, film production, retail peak, bridging while a permanent facility is built. Buy or rent-to-own when the need is ongoing (12+ months): mobile pharma clinics, remote fisheries, mining camps, permanent food processing overflow. Rent-to-own contracts apply a portion of rent against the buy-out price.
What compliance does a mobile pharma cold room need?
GDP data logging (calibrated probes, 1–5 min intervals, 21 CFR Part 11 compliant), IQ/OQ/PQ validation on deployment, temperature mapping in the loaded configuration, backup power (genset or BESS), and continuous remote monitoring with tiered alarming. WHO PQS or IATA CEIV Pharma certification for vaccine deployments.
How does ColdMatch source mobile cold rooms?
We match your brief (temperature, capacity, term, power, location, compliance) with 3–5 audited rental and modular manufacturer partners and return comparable quotes on rate, delivery time, service SLA and buy-out option. Emergency briefs are prioritized for same-week dispatch.
One structured RFQ, vendor-neutral to shortlisted suppliers. Prefilled with pillar context — you refine the details. No commitment, no fees.