COLD CHAIN
Local cold storage company is looking to expand operations
Kyabram Cold Storage manages a diverse range of local and imported products, everything from dairy to fruit, in its Victorian facilities.
Kyabram Cold Storage has been a staple of regional Victorian for the dairy and agriculture sectors, and after continued growth, the company is looking to expand its operations. Food & Beverage Industry News reports.
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yabram Cold Storage has been a major fixture in regional Victoria, and the Australian cold storage sector, since 1984. Kyabram Cold Storage specialises in the management of warehousing of ambient, chilled and freezer inventories both Australian manufacturing and imported. The company commenced initially with 16 cool rooms warehousing controlled atmosphere fresh produce for regional producers. Today, Kyabram Cold Storage operates two sites with 60 cool rooms and capacity for 50,000 pallets / bins across the network. The main site is in Kyabram, north of Melbourne, the
other in Merrigum, just southeast of Kyabram. The company’ solutions-based culture has driven expansion throughout the previous four decades largely warehousing dairy products, cheese, butter and powders. Kyabram Cold Storage has enjoyed the benefits and drivers of growth through the expertise of its tenured staff lead by general manager Darren Gledhill. “We have a dedicated group of 40 men and women, providing extensive levels of expertise throughout our facilities. Our people and community are our future which is testament to careers within the organisation lasting better than 20 years,” said Gledhill
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The company’s expansion has been significant over the last six years with additional warehousing added for select specialty powders. Largely infant formula, frozen dairy blends, and concentrates. “We manage and warehouse a diverse product range across horticultural and agricultural sectors and were once very dependant of dairy. Though in recent years we have differentiated our offer and provide wide ranging solutions that incorporate humidity, temperature, including blast freezing and controlled atmosphere storage, for many industries in the food, wine, confectionary, and raw materials sector,” said Fairless.
“We also value add and continue to seek out opportunities to return product types back into production through sorting, grading and repackaging. Evidenced by its rework footprint in dairy fats, powders, frozen vegetable, fruit and retail FMCG sectors, both import and export. Fairless also spoke about how the company navigated the COVID-19 pandemic from Victoria, which had some of the strictest lockdowns in the world. “I feel we have managed our COVID response very well. Darren and his team were extraordinary,” he said. “We haven’t missed a day’s work
