United States Cold Storage Completes Lake City, Fla., Warehouse Expansion
There’s an added chill in the air in North Central Florida. That’s because United States Cold Storage (USCS), Vorhees, N.J., completed a 3.2 million-cubic-foot expansion at its Lake City, Fla., warehouse, located between Jacksonville and Tallahassee.
Officials say a Phase 2 addition—completed in mid-2013—includes a new racked storage room (with convertible refrigerated temperature controls) as well as a large freezer with two smaller blast freezing rooms. Each zone can hold 24 pallets of product. Blast freezers can generate temperatures of -50°F with forced air circulation to quickly cool bulk loads of meat, poultry, bakery foods or other items.