Cold storage services across the UK
This guide covers every kind of cold storage — from a single walk-in chiller to a 30,000-pallet frozen warehouse. Each type sizes differently, on refrigeration duty rather than floor area. Pick the closest match.
Walk-in Cold Rooms
restaurants, butchers, fishmongers, florists, pharmacies, catering kitchens, farm shops, convenience retail
- Temperature
- 0 to +5°C chilled; -18 to -25°C freezer variants
- Capacity
- 6 to 150 m³ (a few pallets to a small store room)
- Install cost
- £4,000 to £30,000
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Blast Freezers & Blast Chillers
ready-meal and food producers, bakeries, fish and meat processors, ice-cream makers, central production kitchens
- Temperature
- -30 to -40°C air-off for blast freezing; blast chillers pull +70°C to +3°C in 90 minutes
- Capacity
- 20kg to 2,000kg product per cycle
- Install cost
- £15,000 to £120,000
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Refrigerated Warehousing & Cold Stores
3PL and food-service distributors, supermarket regional depots, frozen and chilled manufacturers, seafood and meat wholesalers
- Temperature
- chilled 0 to +5°C; frozen -18 to -25°C
- Capacity
- 500 to 30,000+ pallet spaces
- Install cost
- £500,000 to £10m
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Modular & Containerised Cold Storage
seasonal produce peaks, festival and event catering, emergency plant failure cover, sites awaiting a permanent cold store, pop-up and expanding operations
- Temperature
- -25 to +25°C selectable per unit
- Capacity
- 28 to 67 m³ per 20ft or 40ft unit; bankable into larger arrays
- Install cost
- £8,000 to £45,000 per unit
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Controlled Atmosphere (CA) Storage
apple, pear and top-fruit growers and packers, long-season produce storage, produce marketing groups
- Temperature
- 0 to +4°C with controlled oxygen, carbon dioxide and nitrogen levels
- Capacity
- up to 5,000+ pallet spaces per sealed CA room
- Install cost
- £150,000 to £2m
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