CSDS designs and delivers cold storage, CA rooms, walk-in refrigeration, and food processing facilities built for uptime, code compliance, and long-term performance.
Core Services
We work across the project lifecycle — from early planning and blueprinting to cold storage engineering, food processing plant design-build, retrofit coordination, and ongoing maintenance support.
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storage
End-to-end planning and engineering for refrigerated warehouses, blast freezers, chilled production rooms, and multi-zone cold storage facilities built around temperature performance, cold chain integrity, and long-term operational reliability.
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Integrated design-build services for food and beverage processing facilities — from site and feasibility review through process flow, refrigeration, sanitation, and commissioning — delivered under one coordinated team.
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storage
Custom walk-in cold storage sized around product volume, access patterns, temperature performance, and the physical realities of your back-of-house footprint.
Core Service
storage
Turnkey engineering for Controlled Atmosphere, Ultra-Low Oxygen, and Dynamic Controlled Atmosphere storage rooms that extend the shelf life and eating quality of apples, pears, berries, kiwis, cabbage, onions, and other respiring produce — from gas-tight room construction to CO₂, O₂, and ethylene regulation.
Who We Support
Different facilities fail for different reasons. We tailor planning and engineering around throughput, cold storage demands, produce-specific CA requirements, sanitation, and uptime expectations across growers, processors, distribution, and foodservice environments.
Controlled Atmosphere (CA/ULO/DCA) storage design for apples, pears, berries, kiwis, stone fruit, cabbage, and onions — with gas-tight rooms, CO₂ scrubbers, nitrogen generation, and ethylene control.
Process flow, refrigeration, and sanitation planning for meat, dairy, produce, bakery, and prepared-food plants that need to scale cleanly.
Refrigerated warehouse engineering, blast-freeze capacity, and multi-temperature layouts built around throughput, racking, and energy performance.
Back-of-house refrigeration and workflow planning for high inventory turnover, food safety, and operational durability.
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Specialty Capability
Beyond standard refrigeration, CSDS designs and integrates Controlled Atmosphere storage for apples, pears, berries, kiwi, cabbage, onions, and other respiring produce. Gas-tight rooms, CO₂ scrubbers, VSA nitrogen generators, ethylene converters, and 24/7 monitoring are engineered as one coordinated system — so firmness, flavour, and saleable grade hold through a multi-month storage campaign.
Beyond Produce
The same Controlled Atmosphere engineering solves problems outside produce storage — fire prevention, altitude training rooms, and chemical-free insect treatment.
Active fire prevention by holding a protected space at a permanently reduced oxygen level — typically around 16.8% O₂ — so open flame cannot develop and fire cannot sustain or spread.
Learn more →Hypoxic (low-oxygen) training rooms that simulate altitudes up to roughly 5,600 metres — a controlled way for elite and amateur athletes, rehab patients, and mountaineers to benefit from altitude exposure without leaving home.
Learn more →A non-chemical method to kill storage insects inside fruit, vegetables, and other susceptible goods by combining a controlled low-oxygen atmosphere with a tightly controlled temperature profile.
Learn more →Stay informed
Meet the CSDS and partner team at Fruit Logistica to talk through CA and DCA projects, new analyzer platforms, and reference installations across Europe and North America. We’ll have product demos and case studies from recent 44-room DCA builds on the stand.
A next-generation multi-gas analyzer platform for CA and DCA rooms. Faster sampling cycles, wider measurement range, and tighter integration with the Auto-store Data Manager (ADM) and mobile app, so room-by-room gas profiles are visible in one place.
Wageningen University & Research validated the MaxFresh daily CA quality-monitoring platform at its Randwijk facility, confirming that daily gas profiling detects fermentation markers early enough to protect fruit quality in ultra-low oxygen storage.
How We Work
Strong projects start long before equipment arrives. Our process is built to surface constraints early, coordinate the right engineering decisions, and move toward installation with fewer surprises.
We review how your team works today, what capacity you need tomorrow, and where existing layout, cold storage, utility, or compliance issues are creating friction.
We translate operational goals into practical layouts, cold storage strategies, refrigeration engineering, and blueprinting that the wider build team can act on.
Installation, commissioning, and turnover are managed with attention to testing, documentation, and the day-to-day realities of running the space after completion.
Why Serious Operators Hire CSDS
A high-performing cold storage or food processing facility is not just a collection of appliances. It is a coordinated operating environment where refrigeration, workflow, ventilation, sanitation, utilities, and compliance all support one another.
Start a Project ConversationTypical Engagements
Not every client needs the same level of intervention. We support focused cold storage upgrades, full food processing plant design-build, and complex retrofit work where multiple refrigeration and process systems must be coordinated carefully.
Process and refrigeration coordination
A full facility rethink covering process flow, refrigeration, utilities, sanitation zoning, and practical production flow for teams operating under pressure.
View engagement type → Walk-in coolers and freezers
A targeted storage project designed around capacity, access, product protection, and dependable temperature performance in a live operation.
View engagement type →What Buyers Need
The strongest projects are shaped by decisions that improve operations after handover, not just by what fits on a quote.
Decision Point
We look at movement, bottlenecks, prep sequencing, receiving, cold storage access, and service realities rather than treating layout as a drafting exercise.
Decision Point
Capacity, door openings, recovery time, and product mix all matter. We help avoid undersized, oversized, or poorly located refrigeration solutions.
Decision Point
Blueprinting, refrigeration, ventilation, utilities, sanitation, and project documentation need to line up early if you want a cleaner path through construction and turnover.
Ready to Plan Properly?
Whether you are opening a new facility, replacing aging refrigeration, or untangling an underperforming plant, CSDS can help you define the right scope and next step.