Americold Expands in Christchurch

Americold Breaks Ground in Christchurch, Doubling Site Capacity to Support FMCG, Retail, and QSR Business Growth

Americold, a global leader in temperature-controlled storage, logistics and facilities solutions, and value-added services, today announced the groundbreaking of its USD$34 million Halwyn facility expansion in Hornby, Christchurch. This ambitious project will more than double the site’s capacity, significantly enhancing its ability to meet the growing demand for temperature-controlled storage solutions across the South Island of New Zealand.

This expansion marks the third regional growth initiative for Americold in the past 24 months, underscoring its commitment to provide solutions to capacity constrained markets across the APAC region.

"Temperature-controlled warehouses play a critical role in the farm-to-table supply chain," says Richard Winnall, President, International at Americold. "As a market leader, we operate varied types of facilities essential to the temperature-controlled food supply chain, also known as the cold chain. This ensures that products move from manufacturers to end consumers in a safe, reliable, cost-effective manner, with minimal environmental impact."

 By bringing global best practices and delivering top-tier service to the retail and QSR channels, Americold are poised to modernise the industry. “This expansion demonstrates our unwavering commitment to local business, job creation and sustainable facility design. Our New Zealand facilities are leading the way within Americold, achieving significant kilowatt-hour savings, high emission reductions, rainwater harvesting and solar energy generation,” said Doug Seccombe, Managing Director APAC at Americold.

"We have designed this facility to meet the immediate and future needs of our grocery and retail customers. This expansion will enable our South Island customers to grow their temperature-controlled supply chain now and into the future,” says Doug Seccombe, Managing Director, APAC. "We continue to provide innovative solutions and best-in-class service to help our customers feed the world." 

The 15,240m² site, at 32 Halwyn Drive, is just 10 minutes from Christchurch airport and 20 minutes from the CBD.

Transforming Cold Chain Operations: Americold Positions Itself for Future Growth with Dematic

To maintain its position as a leader in temperature-controlled logistics and meet increasing operational demands, Americold partnered with Dematic to optimise its cold chain operations technology in Australia. This collaboration has upgraded Americold’s existing Dematic wireless connectivity, Voice-Picking systems, and Radio Frequency (RF) devices with the latest technologies, further boosting efficiencies and productivity while preparing for future growth.

The partnership between Americold and Dematic has been crucial to the success of the upgrade project. Dematic provided on-site support from the initial planning stages through to the final deployment of new technology, and its ongoing involvement has ensured that Americold’s systems continue to operate smoothly.

“Dematic understands our business and brings solutions that are relevant to our needs,” said Aishling O’Brien, Vice President, Information Technology, APAC, Americold Logistics. “They have a wide customer range themselves and are well positioned to tell us what’s happening in the market and where they can see further efficiencies for Americold.”

Introducing the Frank Vale State Winners!

Introducing the Frank Vale State Winners!

It’s that time of year again when the process of nominating state winners of the Frank Vale Award from each state of Australia occurs.

The Frank Vale Award, presented annually in Australia sine 1993, acknowledges talented young professionals under 35 who have at least three years of experience in the cold chain industry and have demonstrated leadership potential and a commitment to advancing the Australian Cold Chain Industry.

The process is lengthy, thorough, and is judged annually by a multiple experienced cold chain executives. We would like to thank and acknowledge these judges as it takes time and coordination of their busy schedules to speak with the competitors and then draw a winner. Thanks must go to Graham Harvey, Craig Adams, Paul Fleiszig, Ashlee Arnall, Cameron Trewin, Robert Hall and Lyndon Watson.

The winner of the Frank Vale Award will be announced at the Gala Dinner at the RWTA Annual Conference, this year being held at Cape Schanck at the Mornington Peninsula.

The winner will be sent to attend the Global Cold Chain Alliances (GCCA) Annual Conference in Florida later this year.

We would like to introduce these promising competitors and thank their Managers for nominating such excellent talents! We wish them all the very best in the competition!

Launch of the new Americold site at Ormeau QLD

Honoured to have been invited to the launch of the new Americold site at Ormeau in Queensland this week, Marianne is speaking with Andrew Mates about expansion.  

This is facility number 6 in their Queensland network which is a growth area for the company.  

Andrew speaks about their new site in Spearwood in WA that went live this October; the capacity for this site is 20,000 + and Ormeau is 11,000 adding more than 31,000 pallet capacity in 2023 and they are looking to add another 40,000 in the year ahead.

Great to see the cold chain successfully expanding  and congratulations Americold!

Watch the interview:

Alert; Chiller Space Available at the Gold Coast, Ormeau

There are pallet spaces in chiller available now in Ormeau, QLD.

Details:
Location: Americold, Ormeau (Gold Coast)
Temperature-Controlled facility - to - 25°C
Facility: 11,000 pallet positions
Loading Docks: 10
If you are interested to know more, please contact:

Shaun Chapman
Email: shaun.chapman@americold.com
Phone: 0459 784 291

Americold is the newest Member of the RWTA!

Please join us for 5 minutes to watch the interview of Richard Winnall, Managing Director APAC and LATAM and new RWTA Board Member.

We discuss the opportunity for industry training, engagement and bringing a fuller representative contingent to the Australian Cold Chain.