Cold Storage Built to Hold Temperature Under Real Operating Load
Howcool designs, manufactures, installs and commissions industrial cold storage under a single EPC contract — from heat-load calculation and steel structure through refrigeration, insulation, electrical and handover.
Export to 24+ Countries
Jeddah, Muscat, Baghdad, Tashkent, Almaty — Howcool sizes condensers, insulation and standby power for the climate a facility actually runs in, then ships it CIF with installation supervision on site.
Equipment Manufacturing
30 product lines built in Beijing — monoblocks to 500HP screw racks, IQF spiral and tunnel freezers, PU/PIR panels, insulated doors and PLC control cabinets. One responsible party when a cold room misses its pull-down curve.
Pharmaceutical and Special Cold Rooms
GMP-mapped pharmaceutical chambers, explosion-proof battery cold rooms and nuclear-plant cold storage — the projects where temperature excursion is not an inconvenience but a product loss.
Six Equipment Families That Make Up a Complete Cold Store
A cold storage facility fails at its weakest interface — a compressor sized for 35 degree ambient in a 50 degree climate, a door frame without heating that ices shut, a panel joint that sweats. Howcool manufactures all six families in-house so the interfaces are designed together rather than tendered separately.
Refrigeration Unit
The refrigeration plant decides whether a cold room holds its set point in August. Howcool builds nine unit types — monoblock, hermetic,...
Air Cooler / Evaporator
Evaporators are where the cooling actually reaches the product. Fin spacing, airflow direction and defrost strategy decide whether a room pulls down...
Cold Room Panels
Insulation is the only part of a cold store that works 24 hours a day without consuming power. Panel thickness and joint quality set the...
Cold Room Doors
Doors are the busiest thermal bridge in a cold store. Every opening cycle admits warm humid air, and every badly sealed frame grows ice until it...
IQF Quick Freezing System
Individually quick frozen product succeeds or fails on freezing speed. Slow freezing grows large ice crystals, ruptures cell walls and shows up as...
Electrical Control System
Control is what turns a set of machines into a facility. Staging, defrost scheduling, alarms and logged temperature history are what auditors and...
- Monoblock Refrigeration
- Semi-Hermetic Condensing Units
- PU / PIR Insulation Panels
- IQF Quick Freezing Systems
- Ultra-Low Temperature Rooms
- Pharmaceutical Cold Rooms
- CA Controlled Atmosphere
- PLC Automation
- Monoblock Refrigeration
- Semi-Hermetic Condensing Units
- PU / PIR Insulation Panels
- IQF Quick Freezing Systems
- Ultra-Low Temperature Rooms
- Pharmaceutical Cold Rooms
- CA Controlled Atmosphere
- PLC Automation
Twelve Of The Thirty Product Lines Built In Beijing
Every unit below is manufactured by Howcool and ships at 380-415V / 3 phase / 50Hz with a 20-30 day production lead time.
Monoblock Refrigeration System
Compact, all-in-one refrigeration system for small cold storage — fresh and frozen food products.
Hermetic Condensing Unit
Versatile unit with main control board, temperature control and operation board in one convenient package.
Industrial Cubic Evaporator
Spray-molded, anti-corrosive evaporator. New coil arrangement reduces wind-side resistance.
Dual Discharge Air Cooler
Low-temperature fresh-keeping storage, food processing, sorting & packing rooms, corridors.
PU / PIR Cold Room Panels
Cam-Lock and Plug-in sandwich panels with polyurethane core and color-coated steel. 15-20 year lifetime.
PIR Fire-Rated Cold Room Panels
Polyisocyanurate (PIR) sandwich panels with B1-grade fire rating. Required for food processing, pharma and high-fire-risk applications.
Sliding Cold Storage Door
Same insulation material as cold room panels. Double-sided color steel. Anti-freeze and electric heating protection.
Electric Sliding Cold Storage Door
Latest synchronous motor control. -60°C to 120°C: cold storage, freezer and high-temperature warehouses.
IQF Self-Stacking Spiral Freezer
Vertical cold airflow for individual freezing. Ice-crystal formation area ensures even freezing.
IQF Impingement Freezer
Dense high-speed airflow hits top & bottom of product. Penetrates air layer for rapid freezing.
Integrated PLC Control Cabinet
Main PLC control cabinet for cold storage installations. Siemens S7-200 SMART PLC, Schneider Electric contactors, CHINT breakers — integrated and factory-tested.
HMI Touchscreen Operator Station
Touchscreen operator station for cold storage rooms. Real-time temperature, humidity, alarm log, defrost timer override, multi-language interface.
Six Industries Where Temperature Is Part of the Product Spec
Food processors, fruit and vegetable packers, cold-chain logistics operators, pharmaceutical manufacturers, industrial and explosion-proof clients, and international EPC buyers. Each one has a different failure mode, and each gets a different design.
Food Processing
Processing lines do not wait. When freezing capacity falls behind the kill floor or the packing line, product queues at ambient and the...
Fruit and Vegetable
Fruit keeps respiring after harvest. Temperature slows it down; controlled atmosphere nearly stops it. The difference between the two is...
Cold Chain Logistics
A distribution cold store is judged on pallet movements, not on storage volume. Dock design, door speed and racking layout decide how much...
Pharmaceutical and Biotech
In pharmaceutical storage the temperature record is part of the product. A chamber that held its set point but cannot prove it has still...
Industrial and Special
Some cold rooms are not about food at all. Lithium battery storage, nuclear plant supplies, laboratory reagents and industrial liquids each...
Export and International EPC
An exported cold store has to survive the climate it lands in, the power supply it is given, and the customs process it passes through....
The Four Reasons Cold Storage Projects Go Wrong
Split scope, split blame
Panels from one vendor, compressors from another, civil works from a third. When the room will not hold minus 18 degrees, nobody owns the number. Under an EPC contract Howcool owns the temperature, not one line item of the bill of quantities.
Equipment sized for the wrong climate
Standard condensing units are rated around 35 degree ambient. In Jeddah or Baghdad that margin disappears in July. Our export designs oversize heat rejection and select high-ambient compressors before the first drawing is issued.
Energy cost nobody modelled
Insulation thickness, defrost strategy, door traffic and compressor staging decide the electricity bill for the next fifteen years. Moving from 100 mm to 150 mm polyurethane cut summer heat ingress by over 40% on our Jeddah design.
No one on site when it matters
Commissioning is where design meets reality. Howcool sends welders, electricians, refrigeration technicians and NDT inspectors to the site, and backs the plant with a 5-year warranty on core components and 24/7 remote support.
Six Stages From First Enquiry To Warranty Support
One contract, one responsible party. Each stage below has its own page describing exactly what is produced and what we need from you.
- 01
Project Starting Process
Most cold storage projects go wrong in the first week, not the last. If volume, target temperature, product type and site climate are not pinned down before pricing, every later decision inherits the error.
- 02
Construction Design
Design is where the operating cost of the next fifteen years gets decided. Insulation thickness, compressor staging and defrost strategy are all locked in before a single panel arrives on site.
- 03
Cost Budgeting
A cold storage quotation that arrives as one number tells you nothing about what was left out. Ours is itemised, because the cheapest tender is usually the one that dropped the floor insulation.
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Material and Equipment Purchasing
Component matching is an engineering exercise, not a purchasing one. A compressor, condenser and evaporator that are individually excellent can still make a plant that hunts, short-cycles and never reaches set point.
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Construction and Installation
A cold store is system engineering made of precision components. Panels, plant, pipework and doors have to be installed strictly according to the design scheme, because each one depends on the tolerances of the others.
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Maintenance and Service
Handover is not the end of the project. The first year of operation is when staff learn the plant, and when small errors — defrost settings, door discipline, alarm response — become habits that either protect the product or cost it.
Scale and Credentials Behind Every Contract
ISO 9001:2015 certified
Quality management system certified by CFL Certification Center (CNAS C065-M / IAF MLA) for design, on-site maintenance and commissioning of refrigeration equipment used in cold storage.
Top cold storage installer in APAC 2025
Named by Construction Business Review (ISSN 2835-9429) after evaluation by a panel of C-level executives and industry editors.
2,200+ enterprise customers
Including Fortune 500 companies, with 50+ signed long-term cooperation agreements.
Premium component supply chain
Bitzer, Emerson, Refcomp, Frascold and Hanbell compressors through 50+ audited suppliers.
20-30 day production lead time
Standard equipment leaves the Beijing plant within 20-30 days of deposit, packed in export wooden cases.
5-year warranty on core components
Backed by 24/7 remote support and on-site service for export projects.
ISO 9001:2015 quality management certificateA 3,000 Ton Cold Store Handed Over In The Middle East
Agricultural-product cold-chain EPC general contracting, filmed at completion. The same crews, drawings and commissioning procedure are used on every export project.
Projects With The Numbers Attached
43 delivered facilities, each with its capacity, temperature band, programme and equipment list on the page.
50,000m³ Cold-Chain Logistics — Wuhan Xinpu Fruit
Two-stage 50,000 m³ cold-chain logistics centre for Wuhan Xinpu Fruit — fruit & meat distribution hub.
Saudi Arabia — 5,000-Ton Cold-Chain Logistics Cold Storage
Feasibility-stage EPC design for a 5,000-ton public cold-chain logistics cold storage at Jeddah Port — a multi-temperature hub for imported frozen food, fresh produce and pharmaceutical cold chain, aligned with Saudi Vision 2030.
-65℃ Ultra-Low Temperature Pharmaceutical Cold Storage
24-hour all-weather -60℃ to -55℃ operation across 4 rooms for a well-known enterprise.
1,000-Ton Strawberry CA Cold Storage — Dandong
1,000-ton strawberry CA cold storage divided into 12 partition rooms — extends harvest season.
2,420m³ Explosion-Proof Battery Cold Storage
EX-rated cold storage for Li-ion battery raw materials and testing.
Oman — 3,000-Ton Cold-Chain Logistics Center
Feasibility-stage EPC proposal for a 3,000-ton multi-functional agricultural cold storage in Oman — a multi-temperature facility combining chilled produce, frozen meat and seafood, and a blast-freezing tunnel, delivered in 6–7 months on a China-supply plus local-steel model.
Engineering Notes From The Design Office
Grape Cold Storage Operating Procedure Temperature Humidity and CA
A complete guide to grape cold storage — variety tolerance, optimal temperature ranges, humidity and CA best practices.
3500 Square Metre Low Temperature Cold Storage Delivered In 120 Days
Six-room -18~-25℃ storage for beef, lamb and seafood. 120-day total build.
20000 Ton Seafood Cold Storage Enters Final Commissioning
20,000-ton seafood refrigeration project enters final commissioning phase.
Cold Storage Questions Buyers Ask First
Do you supply equipment only or build the whole cold storage facility?
Both. Howcool sells individual equipment — condensing units, IQF freezers, panels, doors, control cabinets — and also delivers complete facilities under EPC general contracting, where design, supply, installation, commissioning and handover sit in one contract.
What is the lead time for a complete cold storage project?
Standard equipment production runs 20-30 days after deposit. Complete facilities depend on scale: our 3,000 m2 logistics warehouse was completed in 90 days, the two-stage 50,000 m3 Wuhan project took 140 days of construction, and the 5,000-ton Jeddah design is programmed over 10 months including approvals and civil works.
Which countries have you exported cold storage to?
24+ countries, including Saudi Arabia, Oman, Iraq, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, New Zealand, Jamaica, Congo, Mali, Angola, Yemen, Libya, the Philippines, Cambodia, India and Syria.
Can you design for 50 degree summer ambients?
Yes. For Gulf projects we select high-ambient-rated compressors, oversize condenser heat rejection by around 20%, thicken insulation and add standby generation. The Jeddah 5,000-ton design is engineered for 50 degree extremes.
What voltage and refrigerants do you supply?
Standard supply is 380-415V / 3 phase / 50Hz with R404A or R507A. Ammonia (NH3) and CO2 cascade or transcritical systems are available for large industrial plants, and other voltages can be quoted on request.
How do I get a budget price?
Send the storage volume or tonnage, target temperature, product type and site location by WhatsApp or email. Our engineering team replies within 24 hours with a preliminary design and quotation, usually with a feasibility outline within 48 hours.
Tell Us The Volume Temperature And Location
Our engineering team replies within 24 hours with a preliminary design and quotation, and a feasibility outline usually within 48 hours.