Cold Storage – Fishermens News

Ice Cold and Dynamic

Cold storage systems have come a long way since the copper coils of yore that shivering deckhands needed to constantly scrub to keep frost-free. While the layperson may shrug at the sight of a hold of properly chilled fish, the commercial fishing professional sees engineering glory and big-money dollar signs. From the 50-foot salmon seiner to the 300-foot factory trawler, what are fishing vessels if not giant floating freezers? If only our ancestors of hundreds of years ago who kept cod fresh in barrels of salt could see us now. Fortunately, cold-storage technology is a dynamic sector that seems to keep getting better. State of the Refrigeration Business There are many players in the commercial fishing cold-storage game, including Washington state-based companies like Highland Refrig...

Cold Storage Spotlight: Pacific West Refrigeration

One company helping propel the cold storage industry forward is Pacific West Refrigeration, which was founded in Sechelt, British Columbia in 1995. PacWest manufactures skid mounted Refrigerated Seawater Systems (RSWs) and freezer plates. PacWest, which came under new ownership in November 2022, moved to Ontario in June 2023. The company is now owned by Gudgeon Thermfire, an Ontario-based manufacturer of thermal sand reclamation systems for the metal casting industry.. “(Gudgeon Thermfire) was looking to diversify and Pacific West was a very intriguing and impressive company. We saw a lot of technical crossovers between the two companies and thought that it would be an interesting fit. We’ve been at our London facility for 1 year and we are fully operational.” Pacific West Refrigerat...

Construction of Alaska Cold Storage Project Expected to Begin This Fall

A $200-million cargo and cold storage facility at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport that’s projected to take two to three years to complete, is now expected to begin construction in the autumn, a year later than initially anticipated. The exact start of construction depends on when permitting is approved and all negotiations with tenants have been completed. The joint venture of McKinley Capital Management LLC in Anchorage and Los Angeles industrialist Chad Brownstein should be in a position to break ground this fall, but it depends on having an anchor tenant ready to go, according to Joe Jacobson, vice president of private equity for McKinley Alaska Private Investment. Brownstein is the founder of Rocky Mountain Resources, which has amassed an industrial portfolio throughout...