Buy 20ft Insulated Shipping Containers Online (NOT-WORKING REFRIGERATED UNITS)

Buy 20ft Insulated Shipping Containers Online
Buy 20ft Insulated Containers Online

20′ insulated container
Reliable temperature controlled storage

20′ i.e. 6m insulated containers are our best-selling insulated container model. The container provides warm and dry storage space quickly and cost-efficiently, for year-round use.

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Whether you need to store temperature-sensitive or items that require a controlled environment, our insulated shipping containers provide an effective solution. These containers can serve as on-site storage units or temporary workspaces, offering versatility and functionality in various settings.
Insulated Non-Operating Reefer Shipping Container
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Insulated, non-working refrigerated containers are used to store goods that need to be kept in a stable, temperature-controlled environment but do not need refrigeration, such as flowers and other plants, wine, chocolate, or even artwork, among other things. This unit does not have a working refrigerated motor (hence, non-working), but has an AC unit attached that can provide cooler air, down to 60 degrees. The insulated interior ensures that the desired internal environment can be maintained.
 
This 20-foot-long container is a high cube, meaning its exterior measures 8’6″ tall , and has a pair of cargo swing doors on one end and an AC unit on the other.
It’s a used unit but has been refurbished — inspected, cleared of potential rust or dents, and cleaned inside and out, so it’ll be ready to handle your temperature-controlled needs from day one.

Due to the indispensable need for such equipment, the cost of business operations involving the shipment of temperature sensitive goods can be very high. If you’d like to balance your budget without causing a negative impact on the customer satisfaction, you should take a closer look at Long Beach off-Coast Depot.
 
As the oldest company in the shipping containers business, we offer the best used insulated shipping containers for our customers. With the expertise stemming from the decades of experience in the field, we are able to purchase used insulated non-working refrigerated shipping containers in best condition possible. Following the purchase, we do the necessary maintenance in order to make sure that we offer the best used shipping containers to our customers.

Due to our confidence in the quality of our products, we have 5 years structural and 1-year wind and watertight warranty for our used 20ft insulated containers. If you would like to know more about our used 20ft insulated shipping containers for sale, you can view the sample photos and videos.

Insulated non-operating reefer shipping containers are refrigerated containers that no longer have a working refrigeration unit. They usually have one set of double doors on the end.
Non-operating reefer shipping containers are also known as insulated containers or non-operating refrigerated containers.

Although the refrigeration unit is not working, the inside of the container will remain slightly cooler than the outside environment as a result of the R30 insulation.

Features of Insulated Shipping Containers

Temperature Control: Our insulated shipping containers are equipped with advanced insulation materials that help regulate internal temperature, keeping your goods safe from extreme heat or cold.

Durable Construction: Crafted from high-quality materials, these containers offer exceptional strength and longevity, ensuring reliable protection for your cargo.

Customization Options: Tailor your insulated container to your specific requirements with optional features such as ventilation systems, shelving, partition walls, and more.

Security Measures: Each container comes with robust locking mechanisms and options for added security, ensuring the safety and integrity of your items.

Easy Mobility: Designed for convenient transportation, our insulated shipping containers are compatible with standard shipping methods and can be easily relocated as needed.
All refrigerated containers have an R30 thermal resistance rating. This means that heat does not transfer easily from the outside in and the inside out.

Along with insulation, the floors are made from aluminum. Instead of a flat floor that’s found in the standard dry van shipping containers, refrigerated containers have T-bar flooring (also known as T-grating, T-floor, T-style floor, or T-section floor) to keep the contents raised up above the floor so that the cold air can circulate.
 

Applications of Insulated Shipping Containers

Hotels and Restaurants:
Add insulated mobile storage to your site with minimal interreruption to your business.

Pharmaceutical:
Store critical vaccines, medicines, and other perishable goods within a controlled environment.

Defense:
Transport food and medicines to war-torn regions

Food Banks:
Store temperature-sensitive donations.

Disaster Relief:
Store medicines and vaccines, food items, fruits and vegetables, during disaster management.

Events:
Store delicate equipment and props that need to be kept safe from nature’s elements, or keep flowers fresh for a longer duration.

Non-working reefer shipping containers come in the following sizes: 20-foot, 40-foot, and 40-foot High Cube (HC). A High Cube container is one foot taller than standard containers, this allows for more vertical storage space and airflow.

How Big Is a Used Non-Operating Reefer Shipping Container?

It can be a challenge to picture exactly how big a container can be. Here are a few everyday guidelines to help you.

20 ft
40ft
40ft HC

How much space will it take up outside?
Slightly bigger than a large single parking bay
Slightly bigger than two large single parking bays head to toe
Slightly bigger than two large single parking bays head to toe

How high is it externally?
About half a foot shorter than standard ceiling height (9ft)
About half a foot shorter than standard ceiling height (9ft)
About half a foot higher than standard ceiling height (9ft)

How many standard pallets (48” x 40”) can it hold?
9-10 Standard- pallets in one layer or tier
21 Standard- pallets in one layer or tier
21 Standard- pallets in one layer or tier

What Are the Dimensions of a Non-Operating Reefer Shipping Container?

Here are the approximate dimensions of the most common refrigerated (Reefer) shipping container sizes.

20ft
40ft
40ft 
High Cube (HC)

External dimensions
20’ long
8’ wide
8’6” high.
40’ long
8’ wide
8’6” high
40’ long
8’ wide
9’6” high (1ft taller)

Internal
dimensions
17’ 11” long
7’ 8” wide
7’ 6” high
37’ 11” long
7’ 8” wide
7’ 6” high
37’ long
7’ 6” wide
8’ 4” high

How wide is the door?
7’ 5” wide
7’ 3” high
7’ 6” wide
7’ 6” high
7’ 6” wide
8’ 4” high

What is the internal floor space?
134 sq.ft.
284 sq.ft.
284 sq.ft.

What is the volume? (Cubic Feet)
1,007 cu.ft
2,132 cu.ft.
2,368 cu.ft.

What does it weigh empty? (Tare)
6,530 lbs
9, 750 lbs
9,950  lbs

What Can This Type of Container Be Used For?

Non-operating reefer shipping containers are unique since they are and have aluminum T-bar flooring. The insulation will provide some measure of temperature control which makes them ideal for the following uses:

Farming – useful for storing extra harvest while waiting to transport to market. Installing a small aircon on the back end can aid in maintaining a cooler internal temperature. On-site storage in hot climates. The interior will take much longer to heat up than a standard dry van.
Storage for colder climates. In extreme cold weather climates, the insulation will help maintain the internal temperature slightly warmer.

Watch the video below on Non-Operating Reefer Container Benefits
 

What Is the Condition of a Non-Operating Reefer Shipping Container?

Non-Operating shipping containers are guaranteed Wind and Water Tight. This means that they will seal up properly and will not leak.
You can expect a Wind and Water Tight container to have original paint, shipping line-markings, dents, abrasions, and surface rust.
On-Site Storage has a wide range of non-working refrigerated shipping containers available to buy or rent. If you need help making a selection, give us a call today.
 

DOORS

ROLL UP DOORS
Roll up doors are one of our most common modifications. These garage style doors allow for quick and easy access on any side of your container, come in lengths of 3’6″, 4′, 6′, 8′, 10′ and 12′ wide (6′ and 8′ are the most common, thus installed in the quickest time frame), and are great when installed opposite the swing doors giving you access from both ends of the container.

While these doors are not as secure as a steel man door or the original cargo swing doors, they are much easier to get into than the cargo swing doors and are a great solution to needing more and larger access points to your container. We can install multiple roll doors along one side of a container giving you the ability to forklift goods into the side of the container, not getting things trapped at the opposite end of the swing doors.
 
Some of our customers have these installed when the elderly or young adults need regular access to the container and might have more trouble opening up the original swing doors.
Lock boxes can be installed on roll up doors for added security. Most roll doors are 7’6″ tall on average, but for High Cube containers, taller roll doors can be custom ordered.
 
MAN DOORS
Personnel doors or man doors come both in a light weight version as well as a heavy steel version. The average width is 36″ but wider or narrower doors can be custom ordered. Doors can be installed anywhere on your shipping container and add a level of convenience and usability otherwise not found with a storage container.
All doors come with knobs that lock and a deadbolt unless otherwise specified, and can open in-swing or out-swing, left to right or right to left.
 
Lock boxes can be installed on a heavy steel man door for additional security.
We highly recommend a man door when you will be in and out of your cargo container multiple times a day, are using it as a workshop or studio, and when the size of the cargo swing doors are not necessary for the majority your needs when loading and unloading items out of your seatrain.
 

WINDOWS & SKYLIGHTS

WINDOWS
Windows can be a helpful addition to any shipping container, especially if natural light is desirable, you will be spending any length of time inside your cargo container, when fresh air would be needed, or if you plan to use your container immediately or down the road as a workshop, studio, living space, ground level office, or shop.
We typically use 3’x3′ duel pane vinyl sliding windows. We can get you any size or type of window you may need if you have a custom project or have a certain style of window in mind.
For added security, bars can be installed as well as corrugated steel shutters to ensure your seatrain against break ins.
 
SKYLIGHTS
Skylights are a great way to add natural light into your shipping container and are very helpful when light is needed and an electric package is not an option.
If you plan on spending any length of time in your cargo container, we recommend considering a skylight. The added cost to install a skylight is easily offset but the practical element of having natural light without power requirements.
The most common sizes we use are 2’x4′ and 2’x2′ but any custom size can be installed.

LOCK BOXES

Lock Boxes are pre-fabricated steel rectangular boxes that are welded onto the cargo doors of a container to add an extra level of security.
All container swing doors have four latches on which you can put a padlock, but most padlocks are susceptible to being breached with bolt cutters. A lock box surrounds the padlock so that no one can get to it with a pair of bolt cutters.
This is a very affordable and easy way to make it that much more difficult to break into your container.
 
Most new “One Trip” containers have lock boxes installed in the factory and we can usually get a lock box installed on a used container in no time.
We highly recommend purchasing a lock box when your container will be storing expensive items (tools or expensive building supplies), will be in a public location, not on private property, or if you have a neighborhood with high crime levels. Roll Up Door Lock Box
OPTIONS, PRICING

 Standard Cargo Door Lock Box
 $125

 Steel Man Door Lock Box
 $125

 Roll Up Door Lock Box
 $175

VENTS

Vents are an excellent way to economically modify your container to allow for more fresh air flow and a lower internal temperature. 

All shipping containers come with small pressure vents at the two ends (about the size of a pack of cigarettes) for breathability, but these do not provide a level of ventilation that some applications may need, especially in hotter-than-average climates.
 
Turbine vents and louvre vents are an effective method of getting good airflow inside of your cargo container, especially if you will be using it for storing perishable items, heat-sensitive material, or will be utilizing your container as a garage, workshop, or bare-bones office.
Turbine vents, also known as whirlybird vents, are installed on the roof of the container and spin, thus creating a vacuum inside the container that sucks air out of the container. These vents are ideally paired with a Louvre vent, providing a fresh air access point at one end of the  container and the suction on the roof, moving clean air in and old air out of the top.
 
Louvre vents, also known as side vents, are the most economical and easy way to get extra air flow into your container immediately. Often times customers will purchase two of these vents and place one at each end of the container, positioned diagonally from one another, with one installed low and the other high. This allows a cross breeze to flow from low to high throughout the entire shipping container.

Accessories and Upgrades

Shelving Brackets
(Wood shelving not included)

Pipe Racks

Plan Tables

High-Security HASP Lock

High-Security Puck Lock

Folding Tables & Chairs

Dry Erase Boards

Cork Boards

Exterior Security Solar Light

Interior Rechargeable Light

Mini Blinds

High-Security Block Lock

Give yourself peace of mind with our low cost Loss Damage Waiver. Ensure you are protected from loss and financial exposure if your container is damaged due to natural events such as flooding, fires, and tornadoes, as well as a third-party vehicle collision.

 
OPTIONS, PRICING

 Louvre Side Vent
 $175

 Turbine Vent
 $250

 Solar-Powered Roof Vent Fan
 $750

PAINT

At Midstate, we aim to provide a high-quality paint coating for both appearance as well as durability and extending the life of your container. We don’t simply slap paint over the original paint, our process includes:

Pressure washing the container inside and out
Making sure the doors are in proper working order
Lifting any low spots in the roof so water doesn’t pool up in the future
Prepping the container by grinding down any surface rust and original peeling or chipped paint with a steel wire wheel
Applying primer after prepping the container
Painting all of our units with Direct To Metal (DTM) industrial-grade metal paint

 
We can also cover your shipping container with elastomeric (rubberized) roof covering if needed. We can regularly cover cargo containers or the roof of containers with marine-grade two-part epoxy. (That’s the same stuff offshore oil rigs are coated with.)
Our paint supplier is Sherwin-Williams, so any colors from both Sherwin or Frazee can be used if you need a specific color.
OPTIONS, PRICING

 Custom paint color
 +$50

 10′ Container Exterior Paint
 $400

 10′ Container Interior Paint
 $200

 20′ Container Exterior Paint
 $500

 20′ Container Interior Paint
 $300

 40′ Container Exterior Paint
 $700

 40′ Container Interior Paint
 $500

 45′ Container Exterior Paint
 $750

 45′ Container Interior Paint
 $500

REFRIGERATED AND INSULATED CONTAINERS

REFRIGERATED STORAGE CONTAINERS
Long Beach off-Coast Depot has been selling and renting out refrigerated containers to businesses all across the state of California for well over 15 years. We’ve worked with organic farmers, wineries, breweries, florists, butchers, schools, hospitals, county fairs, meat processing plants, farmers market growers, dairies, biotech operations, restaurants, and much, much more.
All of our units have aluminum exterior paneling, high-density lightweight polyurethane foam wall construction, stainless steel interior walls and ceiling, and an aluminum T-rail floor.
 
INSULATED STORAGE CONTAINERS
How are insulated storage containers different from refrigerated units? Our insulated shipping container units are a refrigerated container with a non-working “reefer” unit, meaning there is no working motor installed. What are they used for? Well, they are often used in warmer climates, when third-party cooling units are installed, or when produce, wine, or citrus is needed to be kept at a mild temperature, among other things.

 

SIZES AVAILABLE
Our units come in two sizes: 20′ and 40′ long. The 40′ containers are readily available for purchase and rent. Our 20′ units are currently not for sale and only available for rent.
POWER SUPPLY
Our reefers are most often equipped with Carrier or Thermo King refrigeration units and come with two main power supplies, 460v 3Ø and 220v 3Ø. We also have custom built units that work off of 220v 1Ø.
 
20′ i.e. 6m insulated containers are our most common and popular model. This container model is your choice if you need storage space with no moisture problems. The thick 40–40mm PIR insulation prevents moisture from condensing inside your container, keeping what’s inside dry. We use PIR insulation for the walls, door and ceiling of our insulated containers. The interior walls are white steel sheets, so this bright space is not only easy to keep clean but it is also moisture-resistant.
PIR insulation does not turn mouldy or lose its insulation capacity and, based on a smaller amount of insulation, offers up to 50% better insulation results than wool, enabling maximal use of internal measurements for storage We supply our containers with mouldings that provide a stylish finishing touch to the carefully designed whole. You can select a new or used container as the frame for your container, which we will fit with insulation.
 
The 6m insulated container’s standard accessories include double doors at the end, and disc valves for ventilation. We can also add other accessories, such as lighting, heating and shelves.  We recommend a radiator for winter storage, with the heating unit equipped with a thermostat maintaining a steady temperature.  Other common installations include inlets, improved ventilation and footings for installed equipment.
The container floor is insulated from below with 50 mm XPS, matching the floor’s load capacity with the container’s default value, i.e. more than 25,000 kg. This also makes loading with a pallet jack easy as there is no extra threshold.  The 20′ insulated container is built using an ISO standard compliant marine container, so that it has a lifetime of several decades and can be transported by road like a standard container.
 
For international freight purposes, we can offer SOC insulated containers.  These SOC containers are suitable for international transport like normal containers. They are equipped with a valid CSC plate+stamp and meet ISO requirements. Please note that the floors of SOC containers are not insulated and that ventilation is implemented with the container’s own ventilation valves. Requests for SOC equipment must be declared when placing an order!
We also offer older containers as part of our rental equipment stock at an affordable price, complete with e.g. XPS insulation. Contact our sales department to enquire about today’s selection of available options.
Standard equipment

Walls, ceiling and doors insulated with 40–60mm PIR
Floor insulated underneath 50mm XPS
Two ventilation valves
Mouldings

Basic details

Marine container compliant with the ISO Standard
Double doors at the end with a welded protective case. Locked using a padlock.
Load capacity: Container default, i.e. approximately 25-30,000 kg
Floor: Container plywood or bamboo (container default flooring)
Container weight: 2,100-2,400 kg depending on the model
Transport: Standard transport similar to a marine container, not suitable for train or marine traffic (requires a SOC model)
Manoeuvring: Using forklift pockets or corner pieces.

New container

New marine container that has been used once
Protective case supplied as part of the standard equipment
Very clean, doors function without problems
Long lifetime and minimal requirement for maintenance
New insulation

Used container

Intact, watertight container
Age 7-15 years, external signs of use
Protective case supplied as additional equipment
Requires maintenance, e.g. rusting
Doors occasionally require work and maintenance

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