Coolstore Packhouses
Coolstore Construction & Packhouses in Christchurch & the South Island
Coolstores & Packhouses
From apples and kiwifruit to wine, South Island growers trust us to protect the harvest. We supply and install long-term coolstores, controlled-atmosphere, ripening rooms and dispatch areas, engineered to hold tight temperatures through the busiest pack season and built to be staged around harvest.
What we build
We build the full sequence a packhouse needs, from intake to load-out:
- Long-term coolstores for season-long storage
- Ripening rooms for controlled ripening
- Dispatch and load-out areas to keep product moving
- Food-grade panel throughout
- Staged coordination with your refrigeration and CA equipment trades so capacity keeps running
Specifications
The spec is set by the crop and the storage regime rather than a standard figure:
- Temperature and humidity tuned to the crop, since apples, kiwifruit and wine all behave differently
- Packhouse facilities for efficient produce handling and processing
- Hygenic wall, ceiling and partition systems
- Staging builds planned so existing capacity runs through the pack season
Industries we serve
We work with Canterbury, Marlborough and Nelson horticulture, covering pipfruit, kiwifruit, wine and vegetables, and with growers and packers scaling up for export.
Recent project
Coolstore, Rakaia. A large-scale build using around 6,500 m² of PIR panel to replace a smaller, older EPS facility, giving the grower a longer-lasting, better-performing coolstore. One of the larger panel projects we’ve delivered in Mid-Canterbury.
