ColdHubs provides cooling services to small-scale farmers and fishermen, who rent 20 kg capacity crates to store their products at the hubs that are available all year round.[4][5][6]
ColdHubs operates at 54 locations, in 22 states throughout Nigeria,[7] with site locations near farms.[8] The three-metre-square units can each hold three tonnes of food. The sun's power cools the units during the day and charges the batteries that operate the
refrigeration in the evening.[7][9]
People
ColdHubs was founded and is run by former farmer
Nnaemeka Ikegwuonu.[1][2] As of 2021, it employs 66 people.[10]
Awards
In 2017, ColdHubs was shortlisted for the UK
Royal Academy of Engineering's Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation.[11][12] It won the 2020 Waislitz Global Citizen Disruptor Award[13] and was the inaugural AYuTe Africa Challenge winner in 2021.[7]