From site survey to commissioning — industrial chiller systems designed, installed and signed off by our in-house engineers, across the UK.
A well-installed chiller should disappear into your process — running quietly, meeting its duty, and costing you nothing in unplanned downtime. A poorly installed one costs you three times: in energy, in production time, and in refrigerant compliance headaches.
Summit Process Cooling has been designing and installing industrial chiller systems since 1989. Our in-house team handles every stage under one roof — site survey, thermal load calculation, chiller specification, pipework fabrication, electrical install, commissioning and handover — for process manufacturers, food and beverage producers, pharmaceutical sites, plastics processors and data centre operators across England, Wales and Scotland.
One supplier. One project manager. One point of accountability.
We install every common type of industrial chiller. Because we’re brand-agnostic, we specify based on what your process actually needs — not what’s on the shelf.
Summit Systems has been solving industrial temperature-control problems for UK manufacturers for over 35 years. Our process cooling division has delivered installations for blue-chip food, pharma and plastics processors.
Design engineers, project managers, refrigeration technicians and pipework installers all work for Summit. No passing the parcel between third parties when something needs resolving on site.
Our engineers cover England, Wales and Scotland from Tamworth and Fareham. Most sites can be reached within half a working day.
Summit was the first plastics-sector supplier to offer 24/7 emergency assistance. Your install is backed by the same cover from day one.
We know because we track it.
F-Gas certified engineers · REFCOM · Safe Contractor · ISO 9001
We run every install through the same five stages. You’ll know where you are at every step.
An engineer visits your site. We measure the process load, assess available space, electrical supply, existing pipework, and any constraints on access or working hours.
Our in-house design team produces a bespoke specification, including chiller duty, pump and tank sizing, pipework routing, refrigerant choice and control strategy.
Skid-built chillers are fabricated off-site to reduce on-site time. Pipework, insulation and ancillaries are prepared ready for install day.
Offload and crane, mechanical install, electrical install, pipework install, insulation, monitoring tie-in, and glycol fill. Scheduled around your production where possible.
System commissioned against its design duty. Operator training delivered on site. O&M documentation, drawings, schematics, energy logs and trends handed over digitally and kept live in our data platform.
Every chiller contains refrigerant. Every refrigerant sits within the F-Gas Regulation. And every engineer who works on that refrigerant circuit needs to be certified for it.
All Summit install engineers are F-Gas certified, and Summit Process Cooling is REFCOM-accredited. That means your installation, commissioning and ongoing service are all legally compliant on day one — not something to sort out later.
More importantly, we’ll specify your chiller with the 2030 F-Gas phase-down already in mind. That usually means a low-GWP refrigerant (R32, R454B, R1234ze or similar), sized and controlled so you’re not forced to replace the system early when the next quota step takes effect. It’s a small specification choice at install that saves a large capital decision in five years.
Most chiller installation quotes stop at the chiller itself. Ours don’t.
A chiller that isn’t connected properly to its load is an expensive paperweight. Our installation scope includes the pipework fabrication, insulation, pump skids, buffer tanks, electrical install, monitoring, and integration with your existing BMS or PLC — whatever the site needs to run end-to-end.
Because the same Summit team that designs the chiller also designs and installs the pipework, there’s no gap between specifications. Flow rates, pressure drops, and control logic are engineered as one system.
Skid-built or site-built, we’ll recommend the approach that fits your site constraints — not the one that suits our install schedule.
Industrial cooling isn’t one problem — it’s a different problem in each sector. We’ve worked in most of them.
We’re not tied to any one manufacturer. That matters, because the right chiller for your process depends on duty, footprint, refrigerant, and how quickly you need it on site.
Our installations typically use units from Frigel, Hitema, Cosmotec and Rhoss — four European manufacturers whose ranges cover almost every industrial application we see. Our Air Cooled Chillers up to 75 kW are held in UK stock for next-day delivery.
If you’ve already selected a chiller from another supplier, we’ll install and commission that too — we’ve yet to meet a unit we can’t bring on line.
A straightforward skid-built chiller with pre-prepared pipework can be installed and commissioned in 2–3 days on site. Larger site-built systems with extensive pipework runs and BMS integration typically take 1–3 weeks. Your site survey report will include a firm timeline.
We handle it. Pipework fabrication, insulation, pump skids and buffer tanks are included in our installation scope as standard. Our pipework installers are part of the same in-house team that designs the chiller.
We are. All Summit install engineers are F-Gas certified and we’re REFCOM-accredited, which covers the refrigerant handling, leak checking and record-keeping required under the F-Gas Regulation.
By measuring, not guessing. Our site survey captures your actual process load — peak duty, average duty, ambient conditions, and the temperature tolerance your process can accept. We design the chiller against that load with sensible margin, not against a nameplate rule of thumb.
Yes. We install units from any manufacturer, and we’ll commission and certify it to the same standard as a unit we’ve supplied.
Yes – and where the refrigerant can be recovered for reuse, we’ll do that. Decommissioning, refrigerant recovery and plant strip-out can be included in the quote.
Your installation comes with full O&M documentation and operator training. We’ll also offer a preventative maintenance package to keep the system in warranty and running efficiently — but it’s optional, not a lock-in.
Send us a few details about your site, your process, and your rough timeline. An engineer will come back to you within one working day to arrange a site survey — no obligation, no salesperson.
