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Industrial refrigeration
Industrial refrigeration
in Malaga.
Refrigeration packs and plant rooms, chilled and frozen cold rooms, blast freezers and supermarket cooling. Industrial refrigeration in Malaga designed, installed and maintained by our own engineers since 2010, with a tailored maintenance contract and 24-hour call-outs so your stock never goes in the skip.
Design, installation and commissioning
Tailored ITAFE PRO Business contract with F-Gas records
24h call-outs from an engineer who knows your plant
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Industrial refrigeration in Malaga
Refrigeration can't stop. Neither do we.
In industrial refrigeration a breakdown isn't an inconvenience. It's a freezer room at −18 °C creeping up a degree at a time, a dairy multideck that has to be emptied, or a bakery that can't open. That's why at ITAFE every industrial refrigeration system is designed from day one not to fail, and to recover fast if it does: redundancy where it counts, temperature monitoring, and a maintenance contract with an engineer who already knows your plant room.
We design and install refrigeration packs, chilled and frozen cold rooms, blast freezers, bakery and kitchen refrigeration and commercial display cooling for supermarkets, hotels, restaurants, food producers and logistics across Malaga province and the Costa del Sol. And we take over maintenance of systems installed by others that have been left without a proper service engineer.
Our own engineers, no subcontractors. F-Gas paperwork kept up to date. 24-hour call-outs, bank holidays included. As it should be.
- Refrigeration packs and plant rooms
- Chilled and frozen cold rooms, blast freezers
- Commercial refrigeration: supermarkets, multidecks, display counters
- ITAFE PRO Business contract + 24h call-outs
Industrial refrigeration systems
What we install, and who for.
Refrigeration packs and plant rooms
Once a business has several cold rooms, multidecks and display counters, fitting one condensing unit per service becomes expensive to maintain and wasteful to run. The answer is a refrigeration pack: several compressors in parallel in a plant room, feeding every chilled and frozen service in the building, with the condensers on the roof and electronic control that only starts the compressors the load actually needs.
We design the whole plant room: compressor rack, condenser, liquid receiver, separators, control panel, controllers and the pipework out to every evaporator. And one thing that isn't optional in industrial refrigeration: redundancy. A properly sized standby compressor costs less than a single day of lost stock.
Cold rooms, freezer rooms and blast freezers
Chilled cold rooms for fresh produce, fruit, dairy, meat and fish; freezer rooms; and blast freezers that pull product temperature down quickly before it goes into frozen storage. Insulated panel, doors, evaporators with defrost, insulated floors at no obligationzer rooms, and compressors sized for warm product coming in, not for an empty room.
The most common mistake we find in other people's cold rooms: an evaporator and compressor sized to hold temperature, not to pull down the load that arrives every day. The room copes until the busy season arrives. For more detail, see our Spanish pages on cold room installation in Malaga and emergency cold room repair.
Supermarket and retail refrigeration
A supermarket is a refrigeration plant that happens to sell things: dairy and fresh multideck cabinets, frozen islands, butchery and fish counters, an in-store bakery and the back-of-house cold rooms. Usually all of it hangs off a refrigeration pack running at two temperatures. We fit out new stores, upgrade those that have outgrown their plant, and replace old packs with ones running refrigerants that will still be available in the years ahead.
Store air conditioning and cabinet refrigeration affect each other: if the sales floor air is humid, the cabinets sweat and the evaporators ice up. So in large stores we design commercial air conditioning and refrigeration as one system, and where the roof allows it, rooftop units for the sales floor.
Hotels, restaurants and bakeries
Hotel kitchens, beach clubs, high-volume restaurants, central kitchens, catering and bakeries: chilled and frozen cold rooms, blast chillers, proving rooms and cooling for prep areas. On the Costa del Sol the season sets the pace, and a cold room that struggles in July is a kitchen that struggles in July. We also install refrigeration for chains with sites all over Spain, such as Granier bakeries, to the same standard at every opening.
Logistics, food production and industry
Cold-chain logistics platforms, fruit and vegetable packhouses, meat and fish processing, wineries, laboratories and processes that need chilled water or air at a controlled temperature. Industrial refrigeration with chillers, large-volume cold rooms, blast freezers and plant rooms with remote monitoring. Across Malaga province and, for large projects, wherever the job is: in this trade, we travel.
Refrigerants, efficiency and control
What's changing in industrial refrigeration, and how we deal with it.
Refrigerants: EU F-Gas Regulation 2024/573, CO₂ and propane
Regulation (EU) 2024/573 on fluorinated gases sets the timetable. Since 2025, high-GWP gases (GWP of 2,500 or more) can no longer be used to service refrigeration equipment except with recycled or reclaimed gas, and HFC quotas shrink every year, so the classic refrigerants will keep getting scarcer and dearer. In plain terms: an old R-404A pack is now a business risk, not just an old piece of kit.
The direction in commercial and industrial refrigeration is clear: CO₂ (R-744) for supermarket and industrial packs, and propane (R-290) for compact equipment and integral cabinets. Both are natural refrigerants with minimal GWP that demand better design and better workmanship (high pressures with CO₂, flammability precautions with propane). We advise without dogma: on every job we pick the refrigerant that will stand up to the next fifteen years of regulation and that your budget and building allow.
Efficiency: the refrigeration bill can come down
Industrial refrigeration runs 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, so every efficiency gain multiplies. Floating head pressure (dropping condensing pressure when the night or the winter allows it), inverter-driven compressors, EC fans, demand defrost instead of timed defrost, and doors and strip curtains that actually close. And on the Costa del Sol, with the sunshine we have, solar PV sized for the refrigeration load is one of the soundest investments a supermarket or cold store can make.
Temperature monitoring and logging
Probes in every cold room and service, continuous logging and alerts to your phone when a temperature drifts out of range or a compressor trips. That's what turns a 3 a.m. fault into a timely phone call instead of a skip full of stock. Temperature records are also part of the cold-chain control that food safety audits ask for; with monitoring in place, you have them without a clipboard on the door.
Maintenance on a tailored contract
In industrial refrigeration, maintenance isn't a recommendation. It's what separates a plant that lasts twenty years from one that's replaced after eight. Pressures and superheat, leak checks at the frequency the refrigerant charge requires, condenser cleaning, defrost checks, oil, electrical terminations and current draw per compressor. All of it logged.
Our contracts sit within ITAFE PRO Business: a plan built around the number of services and how critical each one is, a named engineer who knows your plant room, priority call-outs and your F-Gas paperwork (refrigerant log, leak checks, certificates) handled by us. There's no price list: we quote after a site visit, because no two plant rooms are alike, and you pay the way that suits you, with the option of up to 12 monthly direct debits.
24-hour refrigeration call-outs
A compressor that won't start, a refrigerant leak, an evaporator iced solid, a pack tripping on high pressure with 38 °C on the roof. We answer industrial refrigeration emergencies 24 hours a day, bank holidays included, across Malaga province. Contract customers go to the front of the queue: in August, that priority is what saves the stock.
Why ITAFE
Industrial refrigeration with no middlemen.
Our own engineers, 24h
No subcontractors. Call-outs all year round, with priority for contract customers.
F-Gas records in order
Leak checks, refrigerant logs and certificates handled by us. No nasty surprises at inspection.
Refrigeration and solar together
We size the solar plant for the round-the-clock refrigeration load, and look after both.
Sectors
Industrial and commercial refrigeration for every kind of business.
Every product has its own temperature, humidity and delivery rhythm. The system is designed around that.
Supermarkets and large stores
Two-temperature refrigeration packs, multidecks, islands, counters and back-of-house cold rooms. Refits and pack replacements without closing the store.
Hotels and resorts
Kitchen cold rooms, freezer rooms, bar and banqueting refrigeration, maintained around occupancy so the season never catches you short.
Restaurants and beach clubs
Chilled and frozen storage, blast chillers and prep cooling for kitchens that run flat out from June to September.
Bakeries and central kitchens
Chilled, frozen, blast chilling and proving rooms for bakeries, patisseries and catering.
Fruit, veg and food production
Large cold rooms with humidity control, pre-cooling and blast freezers for the harvest. Packhouses, meat and fish processing.
Logistics and distribution
Cold-chain platforms, loading bays and transit cold rooms with remote monitoring and audit-ready temperature records.
Refrigeration + solar
Your refrigeration works in the sun. Let the sun pay for it.
An industrial refrigeration system never rests: compressors running 24 hours a day, every day of the year. And it draws most power exactly when the sun is strongest, at midday and in summer, with the roof baking and the condensers working at their limit. That consumption curve is a near-perfect match for a self-consumption solar plant: the panels produce when your plant room needs it most.
At ITAFE we design, connect and maintain your company's solar array or plant with the refrigeration in mind, not as a generic roof job. We know what each pack draws, when each compressor cuts in and what August does to all of it. And we look after it afterwards, because a dirty array or a stopped inverter quietly produces less, and nobody notices until the electricity bill arrives.
One team for the cold and the sun. One contract. One point of contact. If something goes wrong, there aren't two companies blaming each other. More on solar energy for businesses in Malaga.
- Solar plant designed around the real consumption of your refrigeration
- Connected to your switchboard and plant room without stopping the cold
- Panel cleaning: on the coast, dust and salt air cut output
- Inverter, protection and connection checks
- Real production tracked against expected production
- Refrigeration and solar under the same ITAFE PRO Business contract
How we work
From the plant room to the maintenance contract.
The process is the same for a bakery cold room and for a supermarket pack.
1 · Site survey
Product, target temperatures, daily deliveries, opening hours, condition of the existing plant, electrical supply and space for the plant room. Site visit with no obligation.
2 · Design and refrigerant choice
Load calculations, selection of compressors, evaporators and condensers, a refrigerant with a future (CO₂, propane or low-GWP HFC depending on the job) and a phased plan.
3 · Installation without losing stock
Temporary cold rooms or service-by-service changeovers so the store stays open. Installation, evacuation, charging, commissioning and logged set-points.
4 · ITAFE PRO Business contract
Planned maintenance, F-Gas leak checks, monitoring and 24h priority from an engineer who knows every compressor in your plant room. Tailored quote, flexible payment.
Our work
Industrial refrigeration in Malaga that's already running.
Granier: bakery refrigeration and air conditioning at every opening
Refrigeration for the bakery and shop floor of the Granier chain, replicated to the same standard at sites all over Spain and handed over on time for each opening.
Pack replacement in a large store
The kind of job we do: replacing an old pack with one running a low-GWP refrigerant, service by service, so the store never closes.
Cold rooms for a high-volume restaurant
The kind of job we do: chilled and frozen storage with temperature monitoring and a maintenance contract.
Frequently asked questions
What businesses ask us about industrial refrigeration.
How is an industrial refrigeration installation in Malaga quoted?
There's no price list. It depends on the volume to be cooled, the target temperature, the product coming in every day, the number of services and the refrigerant. A bakery cold room and a supermarket pack are completely different jobs. After a site visit we give you a fixed quote, itemised line by line. The site visit carries no obligation, anywhere in the province.
Which refrigerant should a new installation use?
One you'll still be able to buy in ten years. Regulation (EU) 2024/573 cuts HFC quotas year after year, so for new supermarket and industrial packs the usual choice is CO₂ (R-744), and for compact equipment, propane (R-290). On every job we weigh cost, building and safety, and explain why we've chosen each refrigerant.
How often do refrigeration systems need leak checks?
Regulation (EU) 2024/573 sets the frequency according to the refrigerant charge, measured in tonnes of CO₂ equivalent: the bigger the charge, the more often, and a fixed leak detection system reduces the frequency. Under a maintenance contract we schedule the checks each system needs and keep the mandatory refrigerant log for you.
Does my R-404A pack have to be replaced?
Not while it works, but since 2025 servicing with gases of GWP 2,500 or more, such as R-404A, is restricted to recycled or reclaimed refrigerant, which is dearer and harder to find. The sensible move is to plan a replacement or retrofit before a major leak forces you to do it as an emergency in July.
Do you handle refrigeration emergencies at night and on bank holidays?
Yes, 24 hours a day, all year round, across Malaga province. Compressor won't start, refrigerant leak, iced-up evaporator, pack tripping on high pressure. Customers with a maintenance contract get priority response.
Can you maintain a system you didn't install?
Yes, it's common. We start with an audit of the plant room and cold rooms, fix whatever is urgent and bring the system into a maintenance contract with its F-Gas paperwork brought up to date. Many of the systems we look after come from service companies that stopped answering the phone.
What does an industrial refrigeration maintenance contract include?
It's tailored within ITAFE PRO Business: planned visits according to how critical each service is, leak checks and refrigerant log, condenser cleaning, defrost and current-draw checks, monitoring if you have it, 24h priority call-outs and member terms on parts. No price list: we quote after a site visit and you pay the way that suits you, including up to 12 monthly direct debits.
Can solar panels power my business's refrigeration?
It's one of the best uses of solar PV: refrigeration runs around the clock, and on the Costa del Sol the sun meets a good share of the daytime load. We size the solar plant alongside the refrigeration to make the most of self-consumption, then maintain it: panel cleaning, inverter checks and production tracking, under the same contract. Refrigeration, air conditioning and solar as one system is what ITAFE does.
Where we work
Industrial refrigeration across Malaga province and the Costa del Sol.
Our own engineers travel anywhere in the province. Site visit with no obligation.
- Málaga city
- Torremolinos
- Benalmádena
- Fuengirola
- Mijas
- Marbella
- San Pedro de Alcántara
- Estepona
- Rincón de la Victoria
- Vélez-Málaga
- Nerja
- Torrox
- Alhaurín de la Torre
- Coín
- Antequera
Don't see your town? We work across the whole of Malaga province, and travel throughout Spain for chains and large projects. Ask us about your area →
Get in touch
Shall we talk about your refrigeration?
Tell us what you keep cold, how much and where, and we'll prepare a tailored technical proposal. Site visit with no obligation.
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