Poultry cold storage & cold chain project.
A reference engineering package for an industrial poultry cold storage — chilled meat rooms, blast freezing, IQF cut-up freezing, frozen storage and export-grade dispatch dock. Sits downstream of a processing plant or as a standalone third-party cold-chain hub.
Project assumptions
Engineering scope
- Insulated envelope (PIR/PUR sandwich panels, vapour-tight joints)
- Structural steel frame sized for pallet-racking loads
- Sub-floor heating grid to prevent frost heave under frozen rooms
- Industrial refrigeration plant with N+1 compressor redundancy
- Blast freezer tunnels with air-blast at –35 to –40 °C
- IQF spiral or belt freezer for portioned cut-up
- Refrigerated dispatch dock with air curtains and dock levellers
- SCADA monitoring with 24/7 alarm escalation
Equipment & indicative CAPEX bands
Vendor-neutral bands from published market references. FeedMatch Group does not invent supplier quotations — final pricing comes from manufacturers via the RFQ.
PIR/PUR panels, epoxy floors with sub-floor heating, hygienic drains.
Ammonia or CO₂ compressors, condensers, receivers, valves.
–35 °C air-blast tunnel, trolleys, controls.
Spiral or belt IQF for cut-up, 500–5,000 kg/h.
Pallet racking (drive-in or selective), electric forklifts, weighing.
Insulated sectional doors, dock levellers, air curtains.
SCADA, temperature loggers, remote alarms, traceability integration.
Diesel genset sized for full refrigeration continuity + ATS.
Utilities & climate control
- Grid + genset backup with ATS — cold chain must not drop
- High-flow condenser water or evaporative condensers
- Compressed air for pneumatic valves and dock levellers
- Traceability & temperature-log database (HACCP / GFSI)
- Optional solar-hybrid layer to offset daytime refrigeration load
- Chilled rooms: 0–4 °C, RH 85–90%
- Frozen rooms: –18 to –22 °C
- Blast freezer: –35 to –40 °C air on product
- Dispatch dock: 8–12 °C with positive pressure
- Anteroom / hygiene lock between clean and dispatch zones
Power & water requirements
- Estimated peak load: 250 kW – 1.4 MW depending on capacity
- Grid connection: 500 kVA – 2.0 MVA transformer
- Backup diesel genset sized for 100% refrigeration continuity
- UPS for SCADA, alarms and temperature loggers
- Estimated demand: 4–10 m³/day (mostly evaporative condensers & washdown)
- Softening for condenser makeup water
- Independent washdown circuit for hygienic cleaning
- Wastewater: low organic load, typically municipal discharge
Budget bands
Bands exclude land, working capital and financing fees. Add country-specific duties. Subject to final RFQ pricing.
ROI framing
Illustrative ranges only. Actual ROI depends on local feed / egg / meat prices, offtake contracts and financing structure. Model your own case with the calculators below.
- Total tunnel cfm
- Pad thickness (inches)
- Outside dry-bulb (°C)
- Outside wet-bulb (°C)
- Directional Class-4 estimate — expected scenario only. Open the full tool for conservative and optimistic ranges.
- Prices, feed costs and FCR use vendor-neutral defaults; override with your local market data.
- Excludes financing costs, taxes, land purchase and one-off site development.
Quick Cooling Load
Expected scenarioEvaporative pad sizing and inlet ΔT for the design condition.
Results
- Pad face area
- 220.2 m²
- Pad efficiency
- 75%
- Inlet air ΔT
- 10.5 °C
- Water flow
- 661 L/min
Class-4 directional estimate for scoping. Bankable modelling needs local input prices and supplier quotes — use the RFQ Builder.
Calculators for this project
Model the specific engineering and financial questions this project needs to answer, using existing FeedMatch calculators. No duplicate pages — each link opens the tool already built for this scope.
- Bird capacity or hens placed
- Target live weight or HDP (layer)
- FCR and feed cost (USD/kg)
- Farm-gate price (meat) or egg price
- Total investment (CAPEX) and country factor
- Cycle length and cycles per year
- Vendor-neutral engineering references — not supplier quotations.
- Class-4 accuracy (±30%) suitable for feasibility and RFQ scoping, not final financing.
- USD-denominated; excludes local taxes, duties and financing costs unless the specific tool models them.
- Climate, biosecurity and grid assumptions default to a typical commercial site — adjust for your country.
Main cost drivers
- Total capacity (tonnes) and pallet turnover
- Blast and IQF freezing scope
- Refrigerant choice (NH₃ vs CO₂ cascade vs HFC)
- Export vs domestic hygiene certification
- Backup power scope (partial vs full refrigeration continuity)
Construction timeline
Supplier matching
FeedMatch Group matches your project brief against a curated network of vetted poultry equipment manufacturers — European, American, Turkish and Chinese lines — and returns comparative RFQ responses on matched specifications.
Financing
Qualified commercial projects can be introduced to an independent third-party financing provider — equipment leasing, ECA-backed export finance and DFI structures. Any financing is subject to third-party approval and is not guaranteed.
Explore financing pathsTurn this plan into a real RFQ
Use the RFQ Builder to receive comparative quotes from vetted manufacturers, plus a 5-year TCO model and — if you qualify — a financing introduction.
FAQ
What is the total CAPEX for a poultry cold storage facility?
Ammonia, CO₂ cascade or HFC?
Can this project be financed?
How long from contract to handover?
Can this be built alongside a processing plant?
Common planning mistakes
Recurring pitfalls we see in commercial poultry projects worldwide. Address them at the design stage — not after equipment is on site.
- Sizing equipment to peak flock only, ignoring downtime, cleanout and future expansion.
- Under-specifying ventilation for local climate extremes — heat stress destroys FCR faster than any feed decision.
- Treating biosecurity as fencing and footbaths instead of an integrated zoning, water and personnel plan.
- Choosing suppliers on unit price rather than 5-year TCO (spares, energy, service response, warranty).
- No backup power sizing for climate control — a single grid outage in hot weather can wipe out a flock.
- Skipping a formal RFQ and comparative bid analysis — leads to non-comparable quotes and disputed change orders.
- Underestimating civil works, land preparation, water treatment and access roads in the CAPEX budget.
- Overlooking waste and wastewater compliance until commissioning — a common cause of permit delays.
Part of the Global B2B Group ecosystem
FeedMatch Group is the poultry vertical of Global B2B Group — an independent procurement ecosystem covering adjacent industrial food-chain projects. Cold-chain, aquaculture and grain / seed programmes frequently share buyer, financing and logistics structures with poultry.