Cold Chain & Refrigeration Procurement
How to request quotes for cold storage and industrial refrigeration
Short answer
To request comparable cold chain quotations, define pallet positions or stored volume, temperature bands, daily throughput, ambient design conditions, refrigerant policy and power availability. Global B2B Group structures those inputs into one documented request, reviews it manually, and routes reviewed cold chain briefs to ColdMatch Group.
What this covers
- Cold storage facilities, cold rooms and freezer stores
- Blast freezing and rapid chilling systems
- Industrial refrigeration plant rooms — chillers, compressors, pumps and controls
- Food and pharmaceutical cold chain facilities
- Refrigerated logistics and loading infrastructure
- Energy-efficiency upgrades and refrigeration modernization projects
What to define before quotations can be compared
1.Storage capacity
Pallet positions or cubic metres per temperature band, and required stacking or racking principle.
2.Temperature and product
Set points per room, product type, entry temperature and any pharmaceutical or food compliance requirement.
3.Throughput
Pallets in and out per day, peak loads, and freezing capacity per 24 hours where blast freezing applies.
4.Site conditions
Country, ambient design temperature and humidity, building status — new build, extension or retrofit.
5.Energy and refrigerant
Available power, backup requirement, and any refrigerant policy or regulatory restriction that applies.
6.Scope boundary
Refrigeration equipment only, envelope and equipment, or turnkey including civil works and commissioning.
Free tools that help produce those numbers
- Cold storage construction cost calculatorPreliminary build cost range before the request is written.
- Warehouse construction cost calculatorFor the ambient and envelope part of the same project.
- Total cost of ownership calculatorCompares purchase cost against running cost over the operating life.
- RFQ builderTurns your inputs into one structured request.
Calculator results are preliminary planning estimates for budgeting and comparison. They are not engineering, agronomic, nutritional, refrigeration or financial conclusions and are not a commitment of any kind.
What happens after you submit
Requesting a quotation through Global B2B Group is free and creates no obligation. Every serious request is reviewed by a person, missing technical or commercial information is raised with the buyer, and suitable suppliers or partners are researched only after that review. Buyers are not connected to suppliers automatically, buyer information is not published, and no supplier is approved, ranked or recommended automatically. No proposal, price, availability, timeline or outcome is promised.
Where financing is mentioned
Global B2B Group and its specialist platforms are not banks, lenders or financial advisers. Eligible projects may be introduced to independent financing or export-credit partners where relevant. Any assessment, terms, approval and commitment remain solely with those independent organizations.
What this desk is not for
- Domestic or retail display refrigeration
- Refrigerated transport as a logistics service rather than equipment
- Requests below the commercial project threshold this desk is built for
Frequently asked questions
- Is a cold storage cost calculator a design or engineering result?
- No. It is a preliminary planning estimate for budgeting and comparison. Refrigeration load calculations and system design require qualified engineers and are not produced by any tool on this site.
- Can a modernization of an existing plant be requested the same way?
- Yes. State the existing system, its age and known constraints; the request is structured so that responses address the retrofit rather than a greenfield build.
- What does it cost a buyer to request quotations?
- Nothing. Preparing and submitting a request is free for buyers, and submitting one creates no obligation to proceed.
- Will my request be sent to suppliers automatically?
- No. The request is reviewed by a person first. Supplier or partner research is considered only after that review, and any introduction is a controlled step decided by Global B2B Group — never an automatic broadcast of your project to a supplier list.
- What happens if my scope is still incomplete?
- That is normal at this stage. The review identifies which technical and commercial details are missing, and those points are raised with you before anything is taken further.
Related reading
- Cold chain project routing on Global B2B GroupWhere a cold chain brief is reviewed before routing.
- ColdMatch GroupThe specialist refrigeration and cold chain platform.
- Industrial procurement for complex B2B projectsThe full define-to-proposal method.
- Free project calculators and RFQ toolsEvery verified planning tool in one place.
Request human RFQ review
Submit what you have. A person reviews the brief, raises the missing points, and only then is supplier or partner research considered. Free for buyers, with no obligation.
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