Cold chain
5,600 MT pack house
HPMC
Tutupani, Himachal Pradesh
5,600 MT
Design, supply and installation of a 5,600 MT capacity pack house including civil works, on a turnkey basis.
Civil · Machinery supply & installation
Cold chain practice
CA stores to 5,000 MT built. A 12,000 MT facility maintained.
17 engagements across 7 states: controlled atmosphere stores, cold stores, pack houses and their operation, delivered as civil, insulation, electrical and refrigeration on one contract.
- 17
- Cold chain engagements
- 7
- States
- 5,000
- MT, largest CA store built
- 12,000
- MT, largest facility maintained
- 6
- Delivered with all four disciplines on one contract
We also run them
Operation and maintenance of a 12,000 MT controlled-atmosphere facility for a unit of CONCOR.
At Rai, Sonipat, SAI BA holds the O&M contract for FHEL's 12,000 MT agri logistics centre: the controlled atmosphere systems, nitrogen plant and CO2 scrubbers, CA chamber doors and fans, refrigeration racks, chiller plants, AHUs and cooling towers, the electrical systems from DG sets to servo stabilisers, the ETP, the fire and alarm systems, and the sorting, grading and packing line.
A builder who also maintains CA plants learns where chambers leak, where condensate collects and which penetrations fail after two seasons. That is the knowledge behind the stores we build, and it is why gas-tightness is treated here as a civil problem, not a machine problem.
The practice
Five things we do in cold chain.
Each has its own page with the projects behind it.
11 engagements
CA stores
Controlled atmosphere stores to 5,000 MT, in Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana and Maharashtra, plus renovation, expansion and O&M of existing stores.
3 engagements
Cold & chill stores
Conventional cold stores and a frozen food warehouse, including the conversion of an existing building for PWD Punjab.
7 engagements
Pack houses, sorting & grading
Pack houses to 5,600 MT delivered turnkey with the civil works, and grading and packing halls inside CA stores.
4 engagements
Retrofit & modernisation
Upgradation, expansion and renovation of stores and processing plants that already exist, for HPMC and PWD Punjab.
2 engagements
Operation & maintenance
O&M of a 12,000 MT CA facility for FHEL and annual maintenance of HPMC's CA stores at four locations.
Guide
Read the guideHow a CA store gets built
The stages, in order, from land in possession to the first season of fruit. Written for a promoter planning one.
Why a builder
The box only holds gas if the building was built to tolerance.
A CA store holds oxygen at 1 to 3 per cent and carbon dioxide at 1 to 5 per cent for months. If the chamber leaks, the nitrogen plant runs continuously, the scrubber cycles endlessly, the energy bill climbs and the fruit does not keep. Whether it leaks is decided by panel joints, the vapour barrier, door seals and every cable and pipe penetration: by the builder, not the equipment supplier.
That is why SAI BA delivers the shell, the envelope, the electrical and the refrigeration as one contract with one site team. On 6 of the 17 cold chain engagements in the portfolio, all four disciplines were in the same scope.
Where the gap is
India does not lack cold storage. It lacks pack houses.
NCCD's national capacity assessment found the additional requirement for bulk cold storage to be around 10 per cent of what already exists, with about three-quarters of existing capacity dedicated to potatoes. What the country lacks is pack houses, around 500 against a requirement near 70,000; ripening chambers, about 90 per cent short; and reefer transport, about 84 per cent short.
SAI BA builds pack houses and CA stores for fruit. The portfolio sits on the national gap, not on the saturated part of the market.
Where
7 states, from Pulwama to Thane.
Rajasthan and Gujarat, the industrial heartland of the portfolio, have no cold chain project. Two businesses, two geographies.
Projects
The cold chain portfolio, largest first.
Cold chain
125,000 sq ft CA storage and grading facility
CONCOR / FHEL
HSIIDC Rai, Haryana
1,25,000 sq ft
125,000 sq ft CA storage with grading, packing and external development work.
Civil · Insulation · Electrical · Refrigeration · External development
Cold chain
5,000 MT CA store
Suroop Fresh
Village Lahe, Maharashtra
5,000 MT
5,000 MT controlled atmosphere store.
Civil · Insulation · Electrical · Refrigeration
Cold chain
5,000 MT CA store
Valley Fresh
SIDCO Lassipora, Jammu and Kashmir
5,000 MT
5,000 MT controlled atmosphere store at SIDCO Industrial Area.
Civil · Insulation · Electrical · Refrigeration
Cold chain
CA store and pack house
FIL Industries
SIDCO Electronics Complex, Jammu and Kashmir
65,000 sq ft
65,000 sq ft CA store, pack house and external development work.
Civil · Insulation · Electrical · Refrigeration · External development
Cold chain
CA store and packing/grading building
Fruit Master Agro
Lassipora, Jammu and Kashmir
60,000 sq ft
60,000 sq ft CA store with packing and grading building.
Civil · Insulation · Electrical · Refrigeration
Questions
Asked at the first meeting.
Built: 5,000 MT, at Lassipora, Pulwama for Valley Fresh and at Shahapur, Thane for Suroop Fresh. Run: the 12,000 MT agri logistics centre at Rai, Sonipat, for FHEL, a unit of CONCOR, under an operation and maintenance contract. We do not describe the second as one we built.
The building, the insulated envelope, the electrical installation and the refrigeration plant, with the external development where it is in scope. 6 of 17 cold chain engagements carried all four disciplines on one contract. On five contracts the profile also records design, supply, installation, testing and commissioning of the machinery.
Storage capacity in MT. It is the unit of the subsidy application, the tender and the grower's mental model. Built-up area in sq ft comes second and chamber count third. For a pack house, quote throughput capacity in MT.
Haryana (2), Himachal Pradesh (7), Jammu and Kashmir (3), Uttarakhand (1), Punjab (2), Uttar Pradesh (1) and Maharashtra (1).
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