Refrigeration & Catering

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Expertise you can trust

Why hire?

Retail lives or dies by its chilled and frozen ranges – by their drinks, snacks, ready meals. But buying refrigeration outright means a big upfront cost and the risk of downtime sitting on your own maintenance team. Cross Rental Services flips that: you get commercial refrigeration on flexible monthly rental, so there's no capex hit to your cash flow. Every unit comes with our 99% uptime guarantee, so you're not gambling on breakdowns costing you stock and footfall. It's refrigeration without the risk -  predictable cost, expert support, and uptime you can build a business around.

Our chiller hire commitment

Remote monitoring

Our NOW Data remote monitoring gives retailers one view of every refrigeration value and setting across their estate, over any time period, with reporting in one place.

  • Thousands of UK sites on one dashboard
  • Issues caught and resolved before they escalate
  • Evidenced temperature monitoring supports food safety compliance at every site
  • Early fault detection improves uptime and prevents major breakdowns
  • Real-time metrics deliver significant energy savings and cut emissions
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Real-world results

Case Studies

7 February 2026

Rapid Dry Air Cooler Replacement

An independent waste management and energy-from-waste facility experienced a failure of a critical dry air cooler that had reached the end of its service life.

6 February 2026

Refrigeration & Catering

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5 February 2026

Anaerobic Digestion Plant Boiler Support

An operational anaerobic digestion plant was experiencing persistent issues maintaining consistent heat within its BIO furnaces.