MTCSS designs and installs industrial cold rooms for food manufacturers, pharmaceutical operators, logistics providers and growers across the UK, from a single chiller room beside a production line to multi-compartment chilled, frozen and ambient facilities. Every room is built to your specification, and we schedule installation around your operation so production and dispatch keep running.
Industries We Serve
- Food and drink manufacturing and delivery
Chilled, frozen and food-safe ambient rooms for production, storage and dispatch, keeping raw ingredients and finished goods at the right temperature before they leave your site.
Temperature-controlled rooms for medicines and medical supplies that have to stay within tight ranges such as +2 to +8°C, with monitoring and alarms to support your compliance records.
Chilled and frozen storage for logistics operators handling food, pharmaceuticals and other temperature-sensitive goods, with doors and floors specified for pallet traffic.
Cold storage for fresh produce, flowers and plants, so growers can hold a harvest at the right temperature and sell when the market suits them.
Ambient temperature-controlled rooms with humidity control for servers and heat-sensitive components.
Chiller and freezer rooms for butchers, fishmongers, dairies and farm shops that need back-of-house storage on a larger scale.
Cold rooms for hotels, large kitchens and catering operations that have outgrown standard walk-in fridges and freezers.
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How Much is an Industrial Cold Room?
Industrial cold rooms are quoted individually because size, the number of compartments and the specification vary so much from one site to the next. As a rough guide from across the UK market, a medium commercial chilled room typically costs £8,000 to £20,000 installed, a larger bespoke room of around 5m by 4m costs £12,000 to £25,000, and walk-in freezers run from £6,000 to £25,000 or more. Multi-compartment and warehouse-scale facilities cost considerably more, and sites that need groundwork, drainage or new power usually add £1,000 to £5,000.
The main things that move the price are:
- The size, layout and number of compartments.
- The temperature range and the panel thickness it needs.
- The refrigeration system, including whether you want backup refrigeration.
- Doors, particularly high-speed and sliding doors for stock access.
- Flooring, monitoring and extras such as racking and viewing panels.
We price every project after a free site survey, and finance and leasing are available for qualifying projects.
Cold Rooms Built for Industrial Sites
An industrial cold room takes far more traffic and holds far more stock than a walk-in fridge in a kitchen, so we design each one around how your site works day to day.
- Doors: MTH hinged and sliding cold room doors for staff and stock, and Nergeco high-speed doors where forklifts and pallet trucks pass through all day, so the doorway is open for as little time as possible.
- Floors: Insulated, anti-slip cold room flooring specified for the loads and traffic in your building.
- Protection: Door and wall protection to stop pallet trucks and trolleys damaging panels and door frames.
- Refrigeration: Refrigeration systems sized for large rooms, with 100% backup refrigeration available so stock stays protected if a system fails.
- Monitoring: Remote temperature monitoring, BMS integration and leak detection, giving you a record for audits and an alert before a fault turns into lost stock.
- Food-safe construction: Food-safe panels for production areas and corridors, as we built for a London food and drink manufacturer with seven ambient compartments and three chiller rooms from 3m to 24m wide.
Walk-In Fridges
For temperatures ranging from +0°C to +8°C
Walk-in fridges, also known as chiller cold rooms and walk-in cold rooms, are ideal for a wide range of uses, from storing produce to preparing food products. With temperature ranges from +0 to +8 degrees, chiller cold rooms can be designed by MTCSS to suit any size requirements (from 2m to 200m and beyond) and offer increased energy efficiency compared to using multiple commercial refrigerators.
Walk-in fridges can be built internally and externally depending on the space you have available. We can weatherproof your unit, add locks for security, and the MTCSS team will take any other requirements into consideration as we design your bespoke cold room.
Ideal for:
- Fruit and vegetable produce
- Cooked food products
- Smoking or curing meats and fish
- Pre-prepared ready-to-eat foods
- Pharmaceutical and medical products
- Storing industrial components
- Bakeries, butcheries, restaurants, warehouses, farm shops, mortuaries, and more
Walk-In Freezers
For temperatures down to -40°C
Walk-in freezers can be designed to suit your cold room requirements, whether you need an internal freezer for quick access or if you need it outside to save on space; MTCSS can provide you with a solution.
Walk-in freezers are ideal for a wide range of applications and industries, whether you need a small capacity walk-in freezer for your butchery facility, or you need a large capacity freezer cold room for an abattoir – MTCSS can design and build a walk-in freezer to suit your specifications.
Ideal for:
- Frozen foods e.g. ice cream, ready meals, etc.
- Frozen meats and fish
- Automotive and aeronautical parts
- Electrical goods storage
- Restaurants, butcheries, and bakeries
- Different freezer types, including blast freezers, holding freezers, and more
But what if you want a walk-in chiller and freezer? MTCSS can supply and install dual-compartment cold rooms – one cold room, split into two different compartments with separate refrigeration units.
You can choose any combination you need, including a chiller and freezer cold room, two chillers, or two freezers, whichever is best for your business.
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Ambient Rooms
Ambient areas provide temperatures ranging from +10°C to +30°C and can be temperature controlled, or without temperature control.
Temperature controlled ambient areas maintain specific temperatures, making them perfect for pharmaceutical/medical storage or other products which require a specific positive temperature to ensure the integrity of the goods is sustained.
Ambient areas without temperature control are ideal for building offices, for dividing walls within warehouses, and for creating food safe areas. The MTCSS team can even clad an existing ambient area with panel to create food safe corridors, rooms, and more.
Ideal for:
- Food preparation areas
- Pharmaceutical and medical storage
- Food safe areas
- Office spaces
- Storage of electrical goods
- Florists, agriculture, and horticulture
- Food and drink manufacturing/retail
Are Industrial Cold Rooms Safe for Staff?
In a busy industrial environment, there needs to be careful management of productivity and staff safety.
As such, when installing a cold room within your premises, we can include a range of recommended safety features, including:
- Internal safety lighting
- Emergency-release handles
- Anti-slip flooring
- Alarm systems for unauthorised access, entrapment, or power loss
- Viewing apertures in cold room doors
These features, and proper training on-site, should ensure that your staff are as safe as possible when using your industrial cold room.
For help with health and safety concerns, feel free to get in touch, and we’ll help you identify any bespoke issues that need to be resolved for your location.
Get a Quote for an Industrial Cold Room
Every industrial project starts with a site survey, where we look at your space, access, power, traffic routes and what you store before designing the room and sending a quote. To get started, email sales@mtcss.co.uk or request a quote, and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible.
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Frequently Asked Questions
MTCSS cold rooms offer highly accurate temperature control, often within ±1 °C. This allows you to meet demanding requirements in pharmaceutical, high-end food production settings, and more.
Likewise, possible temperature ranges include:
- Ambient areas: +10 and +30°c
- Chiller cold rooms: +0 to +8°C
- Freezer cold rooms: -40 to +0°C
- Dual-compartment cold rooms: a combination of multiple temperature ranges depending on your requirements, for example, one freezer cold room and one chiller cold room compartment
To find the right solution for your business needs, speak to us directly for bespoke advice and recommendations.
Whether as a result of limited rental space or expanding operations, it’s not uncommon for industries and businesses to need more room for stock in their lifetime.
But if you can’t add walk-in fridges or freezers, you might assume that you are limited to large and sometimes inefficient refrigerators and freezer units.
A modular cold room could be the answer. They’re built from cam-locked insulated panels in set sizes, go up in a day or two without structural work, and can be taken down and moved if your needs change.
For more information about modular cold rooms or to place a bespoke modular order, request a free quote from our experienced design and installation team.
If your industrial cold room will contain sensitive, delicate, or very high-value stock, adding advanced monitoring systems could be well worth the investment.
Once added, these systems can monitor and track temperature, door openings, and alarms via an accessible app or email alerts, helping reduce the likelihood of:
- Theft
- Loss
- Stock spoilage
For more information about monitoring systems, speak to our experienced team today.
It depends on what the cold room replaces. A cold room uses more electricity than a single upright fridge or freezer, so the savings come from elsewhere: a much lower storage cost per litre, one refrigeration system to maintain instead of several, less stock lost to temperature swings, and a structure that can be refurbished near the end of its life rather than replaced. If you send us details of your current setup, we can tell you whether a cold room makes financial sense for your site.
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