Oriental Foods Wholesale, Watford
Scandia partnered with a market-leading importer and distributor of Oriental, Filipino, Thai, and Far Eastern food and drink to drastically increase their frozen storage capacity with a massive, turnkey industrial freezer in their Watford warehouse.
Type of Cold Room: Industrial Freezer
A large-scale, turnkey industrial freezer solution designed to provide over five times the client’s previous storage capacity, complete with modern low-GWP refrigeration and comprehensive pallet racking.
Specifications
Dimensions: Industrial Freezer 8.8m W x 21m L x 2m High.
Insulation: 150mm high-density injected PIR insulated panels.
Pedestrian Door: 1 x rear exit door 900mm x 2000mm clear opening (c/o) featuring Fermod 921 and 1473 furniture, and anodised aluminium door capping.
Forklift Door: 1 x forklift use door 2500mm x 3000mm clear opening (c/o) on a Fermod 3000 series manual track with furniture and anodised aluminium door capping. Includes built-in heaters and an accessible under-side leaf heater.
Flooring: 150mm reinforced concrete flooring with a power float finish and external ramp.
Storage: Pallet racking to the full store with timber decking.
Protection: Internal panel protection using 125x75x8 steel angles.
Refrigeration: 3 x 10HP Intarcon R448A refrigeration systems with a connected data logger.
Client Requirement
A market-leading importer and distributor of oriental food and drink, specialising in Filipino, Thai, and Far Eastern products, were looking to increase their frozen storage capacity in their warehouse in Watford. To suit current rapid growth, their current workload, and foreseen future business, they required frozen storage which was over 5 times larger than their current capacity.
Our Solution
Through site surveys and phone calls, we offered our proposed options, all of which created the desired end result in terms of storage. Throughout this process, we learnt more about the business and their vision for growth; this aided us to finalise the correct solution, which achieved more storage space than initially required, whilst still leaving room for further growth in their ambient storage.
We achieved this end result through a well-thought-out design, solid management, expertise in our production facility, and our experienced installation team. We managed to undertake the full works as a complete turnkey package, including:
Surveying for efficient design, ensuring optimum provision of the final freezer solution.
In-house fabrication of insulated panels, doors, and flashings.
In-house selection and supply of over-duty, modern low-GWP refrigeration systems.
Design and supply of pallet racking to achieve the customer’s expansion requirements.
In-house installation of the full turnkey package.