A groundbreaking ceremony was recently held by Cold-Link Logistics and Tippmann Group on the newly established cold storage facility in Ellisville, MS. Tate Reeves, Governor of Mississippi, who had attended the event as a speaker addressed the crowd present at the event.
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The State-of-the-Art food-grade warehouse, which is scheduled to open in the summer of 2024 will provide close to 27,000 pallet positions of frozen and refrigerated storage space.
Cold-Link Logistics is one of the fastest growing cold storage warehouse companies in the United States. This new facility is the 3rd new Cold-Link warehouse to be built in the past two years. They recently built and opened facilities in Holland, Michigan in 2022, and Sioux City, Iowa in 2023, while also completing an expansion to the Holland facility in 2023. All of these projects were designed and built by Tippmann Group.
The building will utilize QFR Zone blast freezing technology, a highly efficient, energy saving way of quickly freezing palletized products, with 44 QFR Zones® in the freezer, and 1,056 pallet positions of blast freezing capacity. 21 dock doors will be used for loading and unloading trucks as they bring product into and out of the facility.
“This project has been over a year in the making and we couldn’t be more thrilled to break ground on a state-of- the-art facility in Mississippi,” stated Michael Mandich, President and Founder of Cold-Link Logistics. “Doing our due diligence, we recognized a starved demand for cold storage in the area and feel that we will serve as a crucial component to the region’s food supply chain for current demand and future growth. The partnership we have developed with the local team at Whitestone Transportation has been nothing short of fantastic and it allows us to offer first in class transportation options to go along with storage and warehousing services. We look forward to supporting the industry’s growth in the area and to many years of providing unmatched customer service in the great state of Mississippi.”