Mulberry, Arkansas, USA: Compass Cold, a new cold storage company, plans a 70,000 square foot cold store in Arkansas.
The warehouse, to be built by Ti Cold, will support food wholesalers, retailers, and food manufacturing customers in central and northwest Arkansas.
The storage complex will have a flexible, convertible design able to maintain temperatures from 40°F to -20°F. Structural steel pallet racks will accommodate 8,500 pallet positions. This includes an in rack freezing system that combines blast freezing and pallet racking.
“This is an exciting new opportunity and a natural fit with our existing distribution services,” said Doug Bowen, joint owner of of Compass Cold.
“This cold storage warehouse will allow us to better serve the clients who have been with us a long time, while branching out to help future clients.”
“We are excited to develop and deliver this project to help expand an already very successful trucking and distribution business into a topflight 3PL solution,” said Rob Adams, principal, Ti Cold, said.
Compass Cold will be able to offer clients third party logistics. As a 3PL provider the company can store inventory of its clients with the ability to pick, pack and ship the client’s products directly from the facility. By providing warehousing, order processing, and shipping and receiving, Compass Cold gives their clients an option to fulfill orders quickly and efficiently.
“Customers expect quality and speed,” said Darren Winstead of Compass Cold, “and the design by Ti Cold for this facility will give us the ability to meet those demands well into the future.”
Compass Cold is the latest venture for Darren Winstead and Doug Bowen, known in the southeastern United States for their trucking company, Doug’s Produce.
Cold store builder, Ti Cold has offices in Florida and Indiana.
Shown above are, left to right: Logan Stuller, Jeff and Debbie Winstead, Darren Winstead, Candice and Doug Bowen, Rob Adams, Sam Tippmann
