Forget labs or data centers. The true mission critical infrastructure of American life is the 3.7 billion square feet of big, boxy refrigerated warehouses that have recently become a real estate asset ...

By 1926, ammonia dominated industrial refrigeration. Natural refrigerants enabled the global cold chain and continued driving innovations needed to feed a growing world.

Americans have treated their freezers a bit like security blankets over the past year, stuffing them full of staples and indulgences, a consumer behavior pattern that has had ripple effects beyond the ...

A general view of the products kept inside the cold storage facility building at Falcon Farms in Doral. SAM NAVARRO Special for the Miami Herald Those perishable pharmaceuticals, fresh holiday flowers ...

Stand-alone freezers used to be little more than open boxes. That was especially true for chest freezers, though even uprights were short on organization. But just as we’ve seen improvements to ...

With the majority of Southern Californians stuck at home amid the spread of coronavirus, demand for industrial cold storage space is expected to surge, according to research by CBRE. The pandemic ...