Cold stores engineered around your product — not a catalogue.
Izhar Foster designs and installs industrial cold storage across Pakistan from −40°C blast freezers to +25°C ambient warehouses, with capacity from 50 to 10,000 m³, built with our own FireSafe PIR panels and matched ammonia, glycol, or CDU refrigeration. Operating since 1959 from a 277,460 sqft Lahore plant. Trusted by Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Nestlé, Engro, Pakistan Army, USAID and 2,100+ other installations.
A cold store is not a single product — it's an integrated system of building envelope, refrigeration, doors, controls, and (often) racking. Get any one of those wrong and the whole facility runs poorly, costs more to operate, and risks product loss.
Izhar Foster builds high-performance cold stores that ensure the preservation, freshness, and integrity of perishable and non-perishable goods. We manufacture our own PIR sandwich panels, integrate them with refrigeration matched to load, and install with our own engineering teams.
Cold store types we deliver
Chiller cold storage (0 to +10 °C)
Short to medium-term storage of fresh produce, dairy, poultry, meats, and pharmaceuticals. Stable temperature, controlled humidity, and hygienic finishes are the priorities here.
Walk-in chillers (0 to +5 °C)
Larger-capacity chiller units for bulk storage of meats, seafood, and produce — purpose-built for the way your operators actually move stock.
Walk-in freezers (−18 to −25 °C)
Commercial kitchens, distribution centres, and food processors needing dependable frozen storage. Specified with thicker PIR cores (100–150 mm) and matched refrigeration.
Blast chillers (+70 °C → +3 °C in 90 min)
Rapid temperature reduction for food processing and catering — protecting product safety and quality across the food danger zone.
Blast freezers
Industrial units that bring product core temperature to −18 °C using air as cold as −40 °C. Critical for meat, seafood, and bakery export operations.
Compact blast freezers
Smaller-footprint units for restaurants, central kitchens, and small processors needing rapid freezing in a constrained space.
Ambient and dry storage (+15 to +25 °C)
Temperature-controlled storage for non-perishable items that still need a stable environment — packaged foods, certain pharmaceuticals, and sensitive electronics.
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.
Where cold stores are used.
Each application has different temperature, hygiene, and compliance demands. We've delivered for all of them.
Pharma
GMP-validated cold rooms — DRAP-compliant, IQ/OQ/PQ documentation
02+4°CDairy
Bulk milk reception, ice cream −22 °C, heat-recovery integration
03−25°CMeat & Poultry
Halal-compliant carcass chillers, blast freezers, HACCP-friendly
04+1°CFruit & Veg
Crop-specific rooms — mango, citrus, apple, tomato, leafy greens
05+4°CPotato & Onion
Long-storage rooms tuned per crop — 95% RH potato, 70% RH onion
06+14°CBanana Ripening
Ethylene-controlled chambers with 4–6 day stepped cycling
Temperature, humidity & shelf life — for everything you'll store.
Search 144 commodities. Click any row to size a cold room for it in our load calculator — pre-filled with your product's exact temperature and humidity.
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Methodology & sources
Storage values are reference targets for properly pre-cooled commodities of standard variety, surface texture, and packaging. Real-world shelf life depends on harvest discipline, pre-cool, ethylene management, room loading, and door-opening frequency. Use the load calculator to size a room around your specific product, target temperature, and infiltration assumptions.
- ASHRAE 2022 Refrigeration Handbook · Ch. 21 — Commodity Storage Requirements
- USDA Agriculture Handbook 66 — Commercial Storage of Fruits, Vegetables, and Florist & Nursery Stocks
- Internal commissioning records — Izhar Foster engineering, 2018–2026
Downloads — reference assets for engineers and buyers.
The same data we use to size systems on Pakistan-scale projects, in the formats your team already works in.
Cold Stores — Product Data Sheet
Construction details, panel specs, refrigeration architecture, and standard scope of supply.
Cold Storage Guide (Temperature, Humidity & Shelf Life)
144 commodities — fruits, vegetables, dairy, meat, fish, dry goods — with optimal storage temperature, humidity, and approximate storage life.
Want a rough cost estimate? Sales-engineer tool, ±20% band.
Sales-engineer tool that combines sizing with cost output. Editable Izhar margin line. Pakistan-tuned across 12 cities and 24 commodities. Rough estimate only — exact cost will differ. ±20% indicative band, includes editable Izhar margin. Engineer validation required before quoting a customer.
Open the rough estimator →The technical questions buyers ask first.
If you're sizing a project right now, these are the answers we give every day on first calls.