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Crop Storage

Over 30 years of crop store coolers — potatoes, onions and root vegetables, with bespoke square ducting.

Overview

For over 30 years we have been providing crop store coolers to some of the biggest names in the UK, ranging from our standard designs to bespoke cooler designs varying from customer to customer.

When storing harvested crops like potatoes and onions, quality and storage life can be greatly affected by things such as moisture loss, respiration and sprouting. It is therefore important for us to keep in mind major factors such as temperature difference, relative humidity and air volume — especially when designing heat exchangers for potatoes.

Unlike potatoes, onions are not cooled immediately after being harvested. They first need to be dried to enable the skin to crisp and colour to change. Once this process is complete they are slowly lowered in temperature by around 0.5°C per day into their cold storage temperature of 0–2°C.

All our crop storage floor mounted coolers can be supplied with bespoke square ducting to an overall height of your choice. We also offer them with the option of EC fans to give close air volume control and generous power savings with fast payback periods.

How we help

Designed to your duty

Every unit is circuited for your room, duty and refrigerant.

Built in Hampshire

Designed and manufactured in Fareham and Portsmouth.

Specified materials

Stainless steel, coated fins and cleanable specs where the site demands it.

Get in touch

Talk to us about

your application.

Tell us the room, the duty and the constraints — noise, materials, access, refrigerant. Our engineers will do the rest.