One 20-Ton Ice Plant, Two B2B Markets in Ghana

Our Ghana customer was not building a 20-ton ice plant for one narrow application.

The finished block ice needed to serve two commercial markets: local ice distribution and seafood preservation.

We supplied a Koller DK200 direct cooling block ice machine with a rated capacity of 20 tons per 24 hours, creating a high-capacity production base for the customer’s ice factory. 20 Ton Koller Industrial Ice Bl…

For this project, the most interesting question is not why the customer needed a bigger machine.

It is how one industrial ice plant can produce a product that moves into more than one downstream market.

The Same Block Ice, Two Commercial Routes

The first route is straightforward: block ice can be sold as a commercial product to distributors and other local buyers.

The second route leads into the seafood industry.

For fish handling, storage or transportation, the blocks can be processed into smaller pieces where required and used as a cooling medium.

This gives the Ghana operation a broader B2B role than an ice factory built around only one customer category. The original project was specifically designed to support both commercial ice distribution and seafood-preservation applications. 20 Ton Koller Industrial Ice Bl…

That matters because industrial production capacity only has commercial value when there is a market capable of absorbing it.

At 20 tons/day, customer mix becomes increasingly relevant.

An ice plant serving more than one downstream application is operating differently from a facility built around one internal use.

For this Ghana customer, block ice connects the production plant with both the ice distribution market and the seafood cold chain.

What 20 Tons/Day Looks Like at Plant Scale

The DK200 is rated at 20 tons per 24 hours and uses a 121 kW compressor configuration.

Available block sizes are 25 kg, 30 kg and 50 kg. The machine uses automatic rise/fall harvesting rather than the manual forklift harvesting found on smaller DK models. 20 Ton Koller Industrial Ice Bl…

The equipment measures approximately 11500 × 2700 × 2500 mm and can be configured with water cooling or evaporative cooling according to site requirements. 20 Ton Koller Industrial Ice Bl…

At this scale, those figures are not simply catalogue specifications.

They affect the factory around the machine.

Twenty tons of daily production means the site needs enough room and downstream handling capability to receive, move and dispatch the finished blocks. Block size also affects how the product fits different customers.

A distributor may want blocks that are practical for transport and resale. A seafood buyer may have a different requirement depending on how the ice will be processed and used.

This is where the 25/30/50 kg options become commercially relevant rather than simply technical options.

Building Capacity Around More Than One Customer Type

Before shipment, the DK200 was tested for normal operation. We then supported installation and commissioning with setup guidance, refrigeration-system checks and production testing. 20 Ton Koller Industrial Ice Bl…

The completed installation gave the customer a dedicated industrial production base for two downstream markets.

That is the point we would emphasize for a similar project.

A 20-ton industrial ice plant should not be evaluated only by asking whether the equipment can produce 20 tons.

The more important commercial question is where those 20 tons go.

For this Ghana operation, the answer includes both commercial ice buyers and seafood-related customers.

That market structure gives the DK200 a different role from the smaller Tanzania DK20 and the Bahrain DK100.

The Koller DK200 is not simply producing more block ice.

It is providing the production base for an industrial ice business serving multiple B2B demand channels.