Cold Chain Project Builders
Real cold-chain procurement starts with defining the project — not shopping equipment. Pick the vertical closest to your project and the Infrastructure Builder pre-configures scope, network nodes, refrigerant strategy and RFQ package. Supplier-neutral, worldwide.
Storage
Refrigerated warehouses, cold stores, CA/ULO rooms.
Plan a complete cold storage facility: envelope, refrigeration plant, racking, docks, controls and commissioning. Neutral scope — refrigerant and supplier shortlist confirmed at FEED.
- ·Chilled vs frozen mix
- ·Refrigerant (NH₃ / CO₂ / HFO)
- ·Rack type & pallet density
Design a stand-alone refrigerated warehouse with racking, docks, refrigeration plant and controls suited to 3PL clients or in-house production.
- ·Pallet positions
- ·Chill vs frozen split
- ·Refrigerant regulation
Plan CA / ULO rooms — gas-tight envelope, O₂/CO₂ control, N₂ generation, scrubbers and monitoring.
- ·Gas-tightness class
- ·N₂ generator sizing
- ·CO₂ scrubber capacity
Processing
Packhouses, meat, fish, dairy, blast freezing.
Design a packhouse with pre-cooling tunnels, grading lines, cold storage buffer and dispatch — sized to daily throughput and target export markets.
- ·Forced-air vs hydro-cooling
- ·Sorting throughput t/h
- ·Export cold-chain corridor
Combine a processing hall with chill tunnels, blast freezers, cold storage and dispatch under one refrigeration plant.
- ·Line throughput
- ·Chill vs blast capacity
- ·Refrigerant strategy
Plan a seafood facility with landing, processing, plate/IQF freezing, cold storage and an integrated ice plant sized to daily catch.
- ·Plate vs IQF freezing
- ·Ice type (block / flake / tube)
- ·Landing-to-freeze time
Integrated cold chain for meat: primary chill, ageing, blast freezing, frozen storage and refrigerated dispatch.
- ·Chill vs blast ratio
- ·Ageing room design
- ·Refrigerant safety
Design a dairy cooling backbone — reception silos, plate coolers, glycol chillers, cheese/yogurt ripening rooms and cold storage.
- ·Glycol vs direct-expansion
- ·Ripening humidity control
- ·CIP integration
Size blast freezing capacity by daily throughput and product type — tunnel, plate, spiral or IQF.
- ·Tunnel vs plate vs IQF
- ·Daily t/day capacity
- ·Refrigerant + safety
Export cold chain
Fruit and vegetable export chains to port or airport.
End-to-end export cold chain for fruit: pre-cooling, CA/ULO cold storage, reefer trucks and port terminals.
- ·CA vs ULO
- ·Reefer fleet size
- ·Port slot booking
Design a vegetable export chain with hydro / forced-air pre-cool, packhouse, cold storage buffer and refrigerated logistics.
- ·Pre-cool method by crop
- ·Packhouse throughput
- ·Reefer container plug-in yard
Distribution
Multi-temp distribution centres and last-mile cold.
Specialized
Pharma GDP, solar, mobile and off-grid cold rooms.
Plan GDP-validated pharma cold storage — mapping, validation, redundant refrigeration, alarm/BMS, controlled-substance zoning.
- ·Temperature mapping (IQ/OQ/PQ)
- ·N+1 redundancy
- ·BMS & alarm chain
Size a solar-powered cold storage: PV array, batteries, high-efficiency compressors, thermal buffer and grid or diesel hybrid.
- ·PV kWp vs battery kWh
- ·Grid / diesel hybrid strategy
- ·Thermal buffer volume
Spec relocatable container cold rooms with integrated refrigeration, monitoring and off-grid options.
- ·Container size (10/20/40 ft)
- ·Temperature range
- ·Power source
Next steps for buyers, investors and EPCs
Each builder outputs a roadmap, checklist, supplier categories and a ready-to-send RFQ. Move to financing, engineering support or a full readiness assessment from the same package.
