On a produce operation, refrigeration isn't optional infrastructure - it's the difference between premium-grade fruit moving to retail and a salvage call to the juice plant. Pre-cooling, holding, controlled-atmosphere storage, and packhouse cooling all have to perform on the harvest day's busiest hour, with the right humidity, ethylene, and airflow profile for the crop in front of them. For 56 years, Fraser Valley growers have trusted Alpine to spec, install, and maintain produce refrigeration that protects margin from field to truck.
Whether you're hydrocooling sweet corn out of the field, holding blueberries at 0°C and 92% RH, or cooling a packhouse line in Abbotsford, we design refrigeration around the crop, the volume, and the season.
Blueberries, raspberries, sweet corn, brassicas, hothouse cucumbers, mushrooms, hops, hazelnuts, apples, pears - every Valley crop has a different optimal temperature, humidity, and respiration profile. Our designs start from the crop and the season, not from the closest catalogue unit.
We design, install, retrofit, and service the full produce cold chain: pre-coolers, hydrocoolers, forced-air rooms, walk-in coolers and freezers, controlled-atmosphere storage, packhouse cooling, and refrigerated shipping bays. Refrigeration, ammonia/glycol secondary loops, and CO₂ where the application calls for it.
Harvest doesn't wait. Over $2 million in ready parts across our service fleet and Chilliwack warehouse, plus same-day or next-morning dispatch across the Valley - most repairs are completed on the first visit so you don't lose product.
When the cooler quits at 4am during blueberry harvest, every hour of warm fruit costs you grade and shelf life. Our emergency line connects directly to an on-call refrigeration technician - 2-hour average response, no answering service, regardless of the day or season.
We approach produce refrigeration around the crop, not the catalogue. A blueberry cooler is not a corn hydrocooler, and neither is a CA apple room. From short-hold cooling to multi-month CA storage, we build refrigeration that hits the temperature setpoint, the humidity setpoint, and the airflow profile the crop actually wants.
A scheduled inspection is dramatically cheaper than a Sunday emergency call during peak harvest. Our pre-season service program prepares your equipment for the run ahead - so the failures that would have happened at 2am on a busy weekend get caught in March instead. Extended equipment lifespan is the bonus.
A produce cooler going down at peak harvest is a crisis on a 24-hour clock - every hour of warm fruit shortens shelf life and cuts grade. Our emergency response is built around that reality. The phone connects to an on-call refrigeration technician, and we roll fully stocked so most repairs are completed on the first visit.
Modern controls, high-efficiency compressors, and improved insulation can knock 20-35% off the operating cost of an older produce cold room. We model your current system and recommend upgrades based on actual paybacks, not glossy brochures, and we manage the FortisBC and BC Hydro rebate paperwork on your behalf.
Contact Alpine Refrigeration today to schedule a consultation or learn more about how we can support your operation.
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Freshly painted across our Chilliwack shop, the mural is a new Fraser Valley landmark, and a fitting one. Local artist Jack Hendsbee brought the mountain to life, and it will feature in the Chilliwack Mural Festival. The peak has been our namesake since 1969, and it is the standard we bring to every install, service call, and 2 AM emergency. We back the local community the way it has backed us.
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