Industries & Uses
From ensuring pharmaceutical compliance to keeping festival drinks perfectly chilled, we provide tailored cold storage infrastructure that meets the unique demands of your specific sector.
Secure, Compliant, and Validated Storage
For high-value healthcare inventory, temperature control is non-negotiable. We provide MHRA and WHO-standard solutions with real-time monitoring.
Our pharmaceutical units feature active 24/7 logging, automated alarm systems via SMS/Email, and redundant backup systems to ensure your biologics and vaccines never deviate from their mandated temperature parameters.
We work directly with NHS trusts and private research laboratories to build custom, validated modular rooms entirely off-site or within strict existing environments.
Reliable Cooling for High-Volume Hospitality
From the Pyramid Stage to intimate wedding venues, we provide the backbone for event hospitality with mobile bar cellars and rapid food-prep refrigeration.
Managing the supply chain in a temporary outdoor environment poses immense challenges. Our robust event trailers are designed to withstand rugged terrain while delivering incredibly fast pull-down times.
Whether you need a standalone refrigerated trailer for a weekend wedding, or a sprawling 100-pallet cold room village for a major UK music festival, our logistics team manages the delivery, staging, and breakdown seamlessly.
Scaling Production with Flexible Storage
Manage seasonal demand and trials with adaptable cold rooms. We build bespoke environments for everything from cheese maturation to blast freezing.
Expanding manufacturing lines often requires agile adjustments to storage capacity. Instead of committing to permanent structural extensions, our modular cold rooms scale with your production needs.
We supply high-capacity blast chillers to safely bring cooked products down to food-safe temperatures quickly, as well as holding freezers and specialized dry-aging environments for premium producers.
Overflow Capacity for Peak Trading
Never lose a sale due to storage constraints. Our units provide the perfect seasonal backup for butchers, supermarkets, and farm shops.
During peak holiday periods like Christmas and Easter, standard shop refrigeration is easily overwhelmed. We provide discreet, highly efficient modular walk-ins that can be installed in tight back-of-house areas or outdoors in yard spaces.
Our solutions ensure that fresh produce, dairy, and high-value meats remain in perfect condition until they hit the shelves, maximizing your revenue during the busiest weeks of the year.
Specialist Applications
Heritage-safe pest control for textiles, carpets, and archives.
Precision environments for volatile chemical storage and trial samples.
Robust cold-chain infrastructure for high-volume wholesalers.
Supporting harvest storage and botanical research facilities.
Every industry has its own unique temperature requirements. Our team is ready to provide practical advice and find the perfect configuration for your specific needs.
Refrigeration hire help centre
Get clear answers about temporary cold rooms, refrigerated trailers, pricing, installation, compliance and emergency freezer hire. For advice, call 01458 552 323.
Wessex Refrigeration supplies two main types of temporary refrigeration:
Wessex Refrigeration serves food and drink manufacturers, festivals and events, butchers, florists, commercial kitchens, mortuary facilities, and pharmaceutical and healthcare organisations. See our industry solutions.
Wessex Refrigeration is based in Somerset and provides nationwide UK delivery and installation for modular walk-in cold rooms. Regional teams also serve London, Bristol and Cambridgeshire.
Yes. Wessex Refrigeration provides temporary blast chiller and blast freezer hire for rapid temperature pull-down and production requirements.
A cold room normally starts cooling and stabilising within about 15 minutes. Time to reach the target temperature depends on room size, starting temperature, ambient conditions, product load and door openings. Ask about remote temperature monitoring for sensitive stock.
Cold-room hire cost depends on size, temperature range, hire duration, location, delivery, installation and monitoring requirements. Use the pricing and quote form for a project-specific price.
Wessex Refrigeration’s lease-to-buy option lets a business rent an eligible cold room for 36 months and own it at the end of the agreement. Review the cold-room finance options and confirm current terms before applying.
Yes. Wessex Refrigeration can supply pharmaceutical and healthcare refrigeration with qualification support, temperature records, audit trails and real-time alerts. Requirements should be agreed against the applicable MHRA, GDP, WHO or internal quality standards before hire.
A standard modular walk-in cold room can typically be assembled in about three hours after arrival. Timing varies with room size, access, ground conditions, power availability and bespoke requirements.
Yes. Wessex Refrigeration offers 24/7 emergency fridge and freezer hire, with a target four-hour response time. Availability depends on location, access and equipment requirements. For urgent help, call 01458 552 323.
