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Custom cold storage & industrial cold rooms in Ontario & Canada.
Industrial-scale cold storage built to your floor plan, from 500 to 20,000+ sq ft. We build cold storage warehouses, multi-zone cold rooms, and dual-temperature industrial fridge and freezer builds. WFE engineers the envelope, sizes the refrigeration to your real product load, and runs the install with our own crews.
The Build, In Numbers
Across Ontario and Canada.
Pacer Air Freight, Mississauga. Pharmaceutical-grade controlled storage.
Quote approval through commissioning.
GTA, Southwestern, Eastern, and Northern Ontario. Cross-border builds across Canada.
Where the catalog stops
Most projects fit a catalog walk-in. This is what we build when yours doesn't.
Catalog
8×8 → 20×20 · single zone · off-shelf refrigeration
Custom
engineered envelope · sized to product load · in-house build
Envelope > 20×20
Above 400 sq ft, catalog refrigeration tables start to under-spec the load.
Ceilings > 12 ft
Pallet-racked warehouses run 14–22 ft clear. Evaporator placement and air-throw change.
Multi-zone in one envelope
Cooler + freezer + ante-room sharing walls. One permit, one refrigeration corridor.
Humidity beyond 80–85% RH
Cannabis cure (55–62% RH), produce rooms (90%+ RH), or any envelope past defaults.
Structural attachment
Penetrations through the shell, loading-bay integration, MEP tie-in. Engineering load goes up materially.
Anatomy of a Build
Plan view of a multi-zone WFE cold storage envelope.
Nine scope items, drawn. The schematic is also the contract scope sheet. Engineering through commissioning, every item accounted for before the permit package leaves the office.
Engineering-led design
Floor plan, product load, set point, door-cycle profile. Engineered to spec, not pulled from a table.
In-house WFE crews
Panel staging through refrigeration tie-in. One crew, one schedule, one warranty. Permits filed and owned through inspection.
Commissioning & documentation
Pull-down to set point, superheat dialed in, control programming documented, signed handover package.
Before / After
Empty industrial envelope to operational cold storage.
Pacer Air Freight build, GTA. Same room photographed during the November panel-staging phase and again at January commissioning. Industrial-scale clear span, multi-evaporator refrigeration, polished slab.
Operational · Jan 
Mid-build · Nov Detail · Cold-Room Doors
The under-spec'd component on most projects we replace.
Door-cycle frequency drives the gasket spec. Ambient temperature outside the door drives the heater-wire spec. We document both at the design stage so the door survives the operation it was built for.
"The wrong door costs more in lifetime energy and gasket replacement than the upgrade ever would have."
Cam-lift self-closing hinges
Spring cam-lift hinges and Kason hardware lift the leaf clear on opening, then self-close it after every pass. Rated for high-cycle dock-side use.
Safety-release latch
Positive-latch handle with an interior safety release, so no one is ever shut inside. Lockable for after-hours security.
Diamond-plate kickplate
Pallet-jack and forklift impact rated, wrapping the bottom of the leaf. Stops cart damage before it reaches the panel.
Aluminium-wrapped frame & leaf
Coldmatic insulated leaf, 3″ cooler or 4″ freezer, in a continuous aluminium wrap-around frame with the vapor barrier carried through the panel interface.
Digital controller + dial gauge
Wall-mounted digital controller for set-point, defrost, and high-temp alarm, backed by an independent analog dial that reads the room even with the power out.
Why Most Contractors Sub It Out
Most general contractors don't self-perform refrigeration. They sub it to two separate trades.
Panel installer and refrigeration tech. The seam between them is where commissioning problems show up six months in.
GC's Panel Installer
Erects the envelope. Schedule A. Leaves before refrigeration crew arrives.
Refrigeration Sub
Different schedule, different supervisor. Two crews never met on site.
Six months later: panel installer didn't leave the right rough-in. Refrigeration tech can't access the line set. Commissioning fails at the seam.
WFE In-House Crew
Same team for panel installation and refrigeration tie-in. One schedule. One supervisor. One warranty across both scopes.
There's no seam to argue over six months later.
In-house build crews handling both scopes are rare in this market.
Industrial Builds
Industrial fridges, freezers, and combo builds.
Operations needing an industrial fridge, industrial freezer, or industrial fridge freezer combo typically need an envelope larger than the standard reach-in or stock walk-in market serves. WFE doesn't sell self-contained industrial units off a catalog. We build the envelope and the refrigeration plant as one integrated system.
For pallet-racked cold storage warehouses, evaporator placement pulls up to the clear-height ceiling. Forklift turning radius and door clearances drive the layout. Loading-bay integration calls for door specs that survive constant cycling. Send us the floor plan and the racking layout. We'll quote from your actual operating profile.
Some operators find us by searching for world cold storage. That's us: World Food Equipment, building custom cold storage across Ontario and Canada. For the cooler-or-freezer decision itself, start with our walk-in cooler vs walk-in freezer guide.
Recent Builds
One engineering pattern, four different operating profiles.
Medical-grade pharmaceutical storage, halal meat processing, grocery distribution decommissioning. Different operations, same build sequence. Open any tile for the full case study.
10,000 sq ft
Medical-grade walk-in cold storage build, Mississauga. Engineered for pharmaceutical-grade controlled storage at scale.
10,000 + 3,000 sq ft
Full cold infrastructure upgrade. 10,000 sq ft walk-in freezer, 3,000 sq ft cooler, plus a rebuild of the existing freezer on the same site.
Full decommissioning
Refrigeration decommissioning at a Longo's distribution site. Walk-ins, display cases, compressors, and rack systems removed under one accountability chain.
Medical-grade
Cold-room door from the Pacer medical-grade envelope. Multi-point latch, magnetic vapor seal, heated threshold strip, sized to a pharmaceutical-grade access profile.
From the Field
Inside two industrial WFE cold storage builds.
Three views from completed projects. Refrigeration spec, door hardware, and finished envelope detail across mid-size and cathedral builds.
Trenton five-fan industrial evaporator, ceiling-mounted across the head of the room. Sized to the envelope's pull-down rate and door-cycle profile.
Industrial insulated swing door with full-height bracing, magnetic perimeter vapor seal, and KeepRite evaporators on the back wall.
Dual KeepRite evaporators on opposing walls so air-throw covers both ends of the room. Smaller builds get the same engineering treatment. Sized down, not specced down.
FAQ · 07 Answers
Cold storage questions, answered.
01 What counts as "custom cold storage" vs a standard walk-in?
02 How long does an industrial cold storage build take?
03 Can WFE handle multi-zone layouts (cooler + freezer + ante-room)?
04 Do you build cannabis-grade cold rooms?
05 What's the minimum and maximum size you build?
06 Do you handle structural, electrical, and mechanical permits?
07 How is your pricing different from a standard walk-in catalog?
Have a question?
A 10-minute call usually answers it.
Lead times, multi-zone economics, permits, cannabis-grade specs. Quickest path is a phone call with a project advisor.
Service Coverage
Custom cold storage installs across Ontario.
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Custom-Designed to Your Floor Plan
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