Cold storage temperature guide by product
Know what you need to store, but not which refrigeration system it requires? Start here. Each guide gives indicative storage conditions and then explains the engineering that actually drives cold room, freezing and load sizing for that commodity.
Indicative storage temperatures for fresh, chilled and frozen fish, plus the refrigeration engineering that drives cold room, blast freezer and load sizing for fisheries and processing plants.
Storage conditionsIndicative storage temperatures for shrimp, shellfish and mixed seafood, and the cold room, blast freezing and IQF engineering behind export-grade seafood facilities.
Storage conditionsIndicative chilled and frozen meat storage temperatures, chilling and freezing duty, humidity control and the cold room engineering behind abattoir and meat processing projects.
Storage conditionsIndicative chilled and frozen poultry storage temperatures, chilling duty, freezing capacity and the cold room engineering behind poultry processing and distribution facilities.
Storage conditionsIndicative storage temperatures for milk, cheese, butter and ice cream, plus the refrigeration, humidity and hygiene engineering behind dairy cold storage projects.
Storage conditionsCold rooms for fruit: indicative storage temperatures and humidity by commodity group, chilling injury and ethylene, pre-cooling duty, and how a packhouse cold store is sized before an RFQ.
Storage conditionsCold rooms for vegetables: indicative storage temperatures and humidity by crop group, chilling-sensitive zoning, ethylene separation, pre-cooling method and how packhouse refrigeration is sized before an RFQ.
Storage conditionsIndicative potato storage temperatures for table, seed and processing crops, plus curing, ventilation, humidity, sprout control and the refrigeration engineering behind bulk potato stores.
Storage conditionsIndicative frozen food warehouse temperatures, cold-chain tolerance, freezing versus holding duty, dispatch buffering and the refrigeration engineering behind frozen distribution centres.
Storage conditionsIndicative banana transport, holding and ripening room temperatures with humidity, storage life and the refrigeration engineering behind ripening rooms, packhouses and horticulture cold stores.
Storage conditionsIndicative dairy and cheese storage temperatures, humidity ranges, shelf life and planning-level cold room sizing for milk reception, cheese ripening, butter and ice cream stores.
Storage conditionsValues are indicative planning ranges used for early-stage refrigeration sizing and procurement. They do not replace product-specific food-safety, pharmaceutical, regulatory or customer requirements, which take precedence in every case. Confirm final conditions with your quality function and a qualified refrigeration engineer.
Turn tonnage and product into room volume.
Estimate the cooling duty for your conditions.
Not reaching temperature, swings, ice, energy cost.
One chart per product — and the faults when conditions drift.