ColdHubs Limited

Agriculture

ColdHubs Ltd. (www.ColdHubs.com) is a social enterprise that designs, installs, commissions, and operates 100% solar-powered 3tons, 10tons and 100tons walk-in cold rooms branded as "ColdHubs", in markets and farm clusters. The Hubs are used by smallholder farmers, retailers, and wholesalers, to store and preserve fresh fruits, vegetables, and other perishable foods 24/7, extending their shelf life from 2 days to 21 days.

In addition to deploying cold storages, ColdHubs offers world class refrigerated transportation service using a fleet of remotely monitored, brand new 10 and 20tons refrigerated trucks and 3.5tons vans to maintain the integrity of fresh produce during distribution.

ColdHubs produces returnable plastic crates for the appropriate packaging of fresh fruits and vegetables. The crates are specially designed to optimize supply chain and logistics operations. They are stackable, durable, and lightweight, making them ideal for transporting goods efficiently, reducing transportation costs, and minimizing fresh produce damages.

ColdHubs ColdConnect Mobile Application enables customers to order and monitor cold storage, refrigerated transportation and packaging materials virtually.

Beyond technology, ColdHubs tackles limited awareness and knowledge base of food supply chain actors by organizing and imparting on them, comprehensive skills and knowledge on post-harvest management of perishable food using local language educational comics which educates them on best harvest methods, handling, sorting and grading, packing using returnable plastic crates, on-farm cooling, packing house, best practices in transportation, storage and preservation to avoid spoilage in the market, managing spoilage during sales, the ColdHubs advantage, nutritional value of high quality fruits and vegetables and financial gains due to high quality fruits and vegetables.