Industrial & commercial refrigeration — engineered around your product, not a catalogue.

Izhar Foster is highly specialised in the production and installation of FireSafe cold stores using ozone-friendly technologies. By taking a lead in adopting "green alternatives" in the manufacture of FireSafe cold store panels and refrigeration equipment, Izhar is the only company in Pakistan capable of meeting international standards and operating globally. Whichever of the three architectures a project needs, it is designed, manufactured and installed to the same standard.

Industrial & Commercial Refrigeration

Three architectures cover the range, and the class is set by refrigeration load rather than floor area. Each has its own page:

Industrial refrigeration — ammonia and glycol systems

Screw or piston compressors on ammonia (NH₃), R404A, R507 or CO₂, with glycol and alcohol as intermediate fluids and PLC computerised supervision. Indirect glycol-ammonia confines the charge to a compact plant room. Above roughly 500 kW. Our largest is the 3,000-ton HAC Agri design. Ammonia & glycol systems →

Commercial refrigeration — rack systems

Custom assemblies of multiple parallel-piped compressors, turnkey from −35 °C to 0 °C — 3 to 8 compressors on one frame, up to 3 suction groups, combinations to 320 hp, with air-, water- or evaporative-cooled condensers. Supplied by Heatcraft (USA). Roughly 200–500 kW. Rack systems →

Medium-size cold stores — CDU systems

Packaged condensing units, one per room or a small multi-CDU pack. Fewer interconnections mean faster commissioning and simpler on-site service — which matters where technical support is thin. Bitzer compressors and Zanotti packaged units. Under roughly 200 kW. CDU systems →

What we refrigerate

Izhar Foster has wide experience in the design and contracting of turnkey projects in refrigerated warehousing of fruit and vegetables, meat, fish, poultry, medicine, chemicals and other industries.

Fruit and vegetables — humidity, CO₂ and ethylene

Fruit and vegetables are properly preserved only when humidity, CO₂ and ethylene are all under control — temperature alone is not enough. Izhar Foster introduced modern CO₂ control evacuation systems, ethylene absorbers and hi-tech humidifiers to Pakistan's cold store industry. Where a crop needs full atmosphere management, the answer is a controlled atmosphere store, or at plant scale an industrial & commercial CA store.

Meat, poultry and seafood

Chicken processing, seafood storage, butcheries and slaughterhouses need highly efficient, safe installations without defrost problems. We supply equipment that maintains the best organoleptic qualities of meat, poultry and seafood — firmness, colour and flavour held through the storage cycle rather than recovered afterwards.

Ice cream, milk and yogurt

For ice cream, milk and yogurt, large quantities of cold are required for thermal treatment at low cost. For these sectors Zanotti cooling systems operate on ammonia and ecological gases, with high-yield equipment for the production of cold water — an "ice-bank" with stainless-steel tanks. Delivered at the Gourmet Ice Cream plant.

Industrial & commercial refrigeration we have built

Multi-purpose cold stores installed for logistics companies and airport facilities are designed to cater for a wide range of temperatures.

• Sharaf Logistics — a 50-foot-high racked cold store, among the tallest built in Pakistan
• Emirates Logistics, Lahore — multi-purpose, multi-temperature 3PL cold store
• Gourmet Ice Cream Plant — ammonia plant with ice-bank cold-water production
• Oye Hoye Chips — snack-food cold storage with racked pallet handling
• HAC Agri — 3,000-ton ammonia-glycol CA store, 20 rooms

Room types — covered on their own pages

Chillers, freezers and blast equipment each have a dedicated page rather than a duplicate summary here: walk-in cold rooms (0 to −25 °C chillers and freezers) and blast freezers and blast chillers (+70 °C → +3 °C in 90 minutes, and −40 °C air for a −18 °C core). Ambient and dry storage from +15 to +25 °C is quoted on the same scope. This page covers the refrigeration architecture that drives all of them.

Built with named equipment partners — not generic resold parts

The refrigeration plant decides whether your cold store still works in year 15. We integrate the components serious cold-chain operators specify — and stand behind the engineering that ties them together. Bitzer compressors (Germany), Heatcraft rack systems (USA), LU-VE evaporators (Italy), Zanotti packaged units and IQF (Italy), and Hörmann high-speed insulated doors (Germany). For controlled atmosphere, we partner with Fruit Control Italiana (GAC 5000 analysis, Swingtherm-BS ethylene, Intelligem IG, Fighter/Bravo/Swan PSA nitrogen). For refrigerated transport, Thermo King (USA) and Zanotti truck units. Every project also uses our own FireSafe PIR panels from the 277,460 sqft Lahore plant — λ ≈ 0.022 W/m·K, fire class B1, the only PIR (not PU) sandwich panel made in Pakistan.