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...