Kold is Rwanda's cold storage company. Our PCM cooler boxes hold an unbroken cold chain for 24+ hours with zero power, covering cold storage, post harvest management, overnight holding and deliveries for vendors, butchers and distributors.
Keep it Kold, Keep it Fresh
Affordable cold storage solutions and post harvest management for Rwanda, keeping stock cold from pickup to sale without a grid connection, a cold room, or a refrigerated truck.
Kold builds the cold storage solutions that Rwanda's vendors, butchers and distributors could never buy. Using phase change material, our cooler boxes hold a safe cold band for 24+ hours with no electricity at all, which makes them the most convenient and reliable cold storage and cold chain available to a small business in Rwanda.
Our mission is to end the post harvest waste that happens in the warm hours between storage, transport and the sale. Good post harvest management closes that gap, and that gap, not a lack of knowledge, is where most spoilage in Rwanda actually occurs.
Every Kold box is built to work in all climates, rented rather than sold, and backed by free PCM swaps, so cold becomes a running cost you control instead of a capital project you cannot afford.
The same box stores stock overnight, rides in any vehicle, and sits at the stall, so the cold chain never has a warm handover.
Produce held in a steady cold band for 24+ hours stops the end-of-day discounting that quietly eats a margin.
Rented, not built: a small daily or weekly fee instead of a cold room, a compressor, and a permanent electricity bill.
Sustainable cold storage that reaches the people the grid never did.
To be the offgrid solution to spoilage for 30 million east african agricultural households.
We design and deliver sustainable cooling solutions that empower small businesses to reduce waste, grow their income, and build more resilient livelihoods.
Developing smarter, cleaner cooling technologies that challenge the status quo.
Helping small vendors, butchers and delivery businesses thrive with cold they can actually afford.
Working hand-in-hand with partners, communities, and stakeholders.
Doing the right thing, always, for our customers and our planet.
Three sizes, rented daily or weekly, for cold storage, post harvest management, overnight holding and last-mile cold transport across Rwanda and Africa.
50L
A vendor's daily stock or a delivery round
120L
A full market stall or a busy butchery
270L
Bulk cold transport and distribution
Holds an unbroken cold chain through a full trading day and overnight, with nothing plugged in.
Off-grid by design, so a power cut in Kigali changes nothing about your stock.
Phase change packs recharge in any freezer, or swap them free at a Kold kiosk.
Built for vendors, butchers and delivery runs: storage and cold transport in one box.
Affordable cold storage for every product you sell. Each one has its own cold band, and getting it wrong costs as much as no cold storage at all. Here is what each needs for proper post harvest management.
Meat is the least forgiving product in any cold chain: above 5°C, bacteria multiply fast and shelf life collapses. Butchers and meat vendors need an unbroken cold band from the abattoir to the sale, which a PCM box holds off-grid and keeps dry, unlike ice.
How to keep meat cold without electricityFruit is the one product where colder is not better. Bananas blacken below 12°C and mangoes lose flavour if chilled too hard. A steady chilled band slows ripening without causing the chilling injury a domestic fridge inflicts.
The right cold storage for each fruitLeafy greens can wilt within hours of sun and stop selling at any price. Greens and roots want real cold, while tomatoes and peppers want 8°C to 12°C. Fast pre-cooling matters as much as the storage itself.
How to keep vegetables fresh longerFor drinks, cold is not preservation, it is the product. Ice lasts about three hours and soaks the labels off. A PCM box keeps beer, soda, water, and juice properly cold and dry for a full trading day or a whole event.
How to keep drinks cold all day off-gridAffordable cold storage services for vendors, butchers and distributors: a complete, affordable cold chain rented by the day across Rwanda and Africa.
Affordable cold storage rented daily or weekly in 50L, 120L and 270L, sized to your stock. No capital cost, no power bill, no maintenance.
Exchange a spent phase change pack for a charged one at any Kold kiosk, so you never need a freezer of your own.
Leave stock in cold custody overnight for a small fee and start the next morning with the cold chain already intact.
The same box holds the cold chain inside any ordinary van, pickup or motorbike, with no refrigerated truck required.
What vendors, butchers and distributors in Rwanda ask us most.
Tell us your product type and daily volume and we will point you to the right box size and rate.