Frostyaire Planning Third Freezer Location in Arkansas

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Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated; Houston, Texas). Privately held frozen food storage company, Frostyaire of Arkansas Incorporated (Searcy, Arkansas) is planning to build their third freezer storage location in Maumelle, Arkansas.

Groundbreaking began the first week of May 2003 at the site in Maumelle. The project is located about eleven miles northwest of Little Rock, where the company plans to construct a 76,000 square foot building with a large 54,000 square foot freezer, office area, refrigerated shipping & receiving docks and engine room to serve new customers in the Little Rock and surrounding areas.

Once the over $4 million project is completed in September of 2003, the company will add about one million cubic feet of storage to their existing 3.3 million cubic feet of storage operating from locations in Searcy and Batesville, Arkansas.

Frostyaire is already talking with a new customer in the area and if negotiations are successful, might have a phase II in the works that would add another 54,000 square feet to the new facility in Maumelle as early as late 2003.

Frostyaire of Arkansas has been in business for nearly 50 years starting with the Searcy location in 1957. The company constructed the Batesville division in 1993. Frostyaire incorporates state-of-the-art computerized refrigeration systems, warehousing, and inventory control systems in their facilities, as well as blast freezing.