China builds Asia&rsquo;s largest productive cold storage&nbsp;

A seafood processing company in Fujian will soon complete the installation of the largest cold storage facility not only in China but in the whole of Asia. Large cold storage construction projects of local governments in China bring ammonia refrigeration a golden period of development.

Ocean Star Aquatic Products CO., LTD, a Chinese seafood processing company claims to build Asia’s to date largest cold storage facility. The new seafood processing facility is located on a 49.4 acre area in Zhsngzhou, Fujian Province, China.

Asia’s largest cold storage for seafood processing

The facility consists of 300,000 square meter of freezing space with temperatures below -20°. The facility will also contain a 1000 square meter refrigeration engine room with an ammonia refrigeration system. Once completed, the total cold storage capacity of the cold storage is supposed to reach 300,000 tons.

The productive cold storage has 12 production lines with an annual seafood processing capacity of 800,000 million tons Expected overall production output is up to RMB 5 billion (€625 million). The cold storage will be mainly used to process and store the company’s seafood including fish, crab, soft cephalopods, shrimp and abalone.

The cold storage facility will be starting operations soon. The total investment of the project is RMB 2 billion ( €250 million). By April 2012, Ocean Star Aquatic Products has invested RMB 1.2 billion ( €150 million) in the construction of the main body and the installation of frozen and chilled stores with ammonia refrigeration in the new cold storage.

Ammonia refrigeration faces golden period of development opportunity

The large market demand of fresh and frozen food brings the cold storage and logistic Industry a new development opportunity in China. In most of the large-scale cold storages being constructed or planned, ammonia refrigeration systems have become the preferred refrigeration system especially considering their high-energy efficiency in low temperatures.

In China, there are many local governments like Fujian Province who are building large-scaled cold storage to meet people’s increasing demands of fresh and frozen food. According to the data of the National Bureau of Statistics of China, every year the country produces over 56 million tons of meat, 8.5 million tons of frozen foods, 10 million tons of beverages, 8 million tons of dairy products and 41.2 million tons of seafood.