Cold rooms for every industry and application

Every food business needs cold storage, but a butcher, a supermarket, a bakery and a pharmacy need very different rooms: different temperatures, different equipment and different rules. Alaska Cold designs, installs and maintains cold rooms, freezer rooms and display refrigeration for six sectors across London and the UK, and the pages below show what each one typically needs, from storage temperatures and room sizes to the display cabinets on the shop floor.

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Six sectors, six different cold rooms

Choose your sector to see the temperatures, equipment and sizes that businesses like yours usually need.

How the sectors differ

Sector What is stored Typical temperatures Typical equipment
Butchers and fishmongers Carcasses, cuts, poultry, fish 0 to +2 °C chilled; -18 °C frozen Meat cold room with rails, freezer room, gravity-cooled serve over counters, fish counters with ice
Supermarkets and convenience stores Dairy, ready meals, drinks, produce, frozen food 0 to +4 °C chilled; +8 to +12 °C produce; -18 to -22 °C frozen Multideck chillers, glass-door freezers, fruit and veg displays, stockroom cold room
Industrial, warehouses and food production Pallets of chilled and frozen goods, raw ingredients, finished product 0 to +4 °C; -18 to -25 °C; blast freezing to -40 °C Cold stores with racking, blast freezers, remote refrigeration plant, loading bay doors
Restaurants, cafes and caterers Fresh ingredients, prepared food, drinks 0 to +4 °C; -18 to -22 °C; blast chilling to +3 °C Walk-in fridge and freezer, blast chiller, counters and display units
Bakeries and patisseries Dough, pastry, cream cakes, finished products +2 to +4 °C displays; -18 °C frozen dough; retarding at +2 to +5 °C Cake and patisserie displays, dough retarders, freezer room
Pharmaceutical and medical Medicines, vaccines, samples, blood products +2 to +8 °C; -20 °C and below for some products Monitored cold rooms with alarms, data logging and back-up

Not on the list?

We also build general purpose cold rooms for pubs and bars, schools and hospitals, florists, laboratories and anyone else who needs reliable cold storage. The design process is the same: we ask what you store, how much and at what temperature, measure the space, and send a written quotation. Tell us what you need, or see our services for what we install, repair and maintain.

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