Asia’s largest cold storage facility to run on ammonia

Ocean Star Aquatic Products Co., Ltd., a seafood processing company in Zhengzhou, Fujian Province, will soon complete the installation of a cold storage facility that is claimed to be the largest not only in China but in the whole of Asia.
Ocean Star Aquatic Products Co., Ltd., a seafood processing company in Zhengzhou, Fujian Province, will soon complete the installation of a cold storage facility that is claimed to be the largest 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.
The facility has 300 000 m² of freezing space with temperatures below -20°C and will contain a 1000 m² refrigeration engine room with an ammonia refrigeration system. The total cold storage capacity of the facility is expected to be 300 000 tons.  
The facility has 12 production lines with an annual seafood processing capacity of 800 000 million tons worth 625 million €.
The cold storage will be mainly used to process and store seafood including fish, crab, soft cephalopods, shrimp and abalone and the total investment is 250 million €.
In China, there are many local governments are building large-scale cold storage facilities to meet increasing demand for fresh and frozen food.