Why a wet panel is not a repairable panel
Once moisture is through the skin the foam is doing nothing. Patching the outside makes the invoice smaller and the problem permanent.
28 May 2026
Cold chain bodybuilding
Insulated bodies, built once and built right
THERMLOCK has built refrigerated vehicle bodies and portable cold stores at Wingfield since 1994. Rigid, trailer, multi-temperature and van, on your chassis, to your temperature specification.
The product rangeSix lines out of one works
Six product lines out of one works. Everything below is built at Wingfield by our own people — we do not factor bodies in from elsewhere and put our badge on them.
THERMLOCK. Specified.
Two bodies leaving the works on the same day rarely have the same specification. Wall thickness, door arrangement, bulkhead positions and lining height are decided per operator, per route.
Specification detailFrom drawing to weighbridge
Design
Body layout and payload arithmetic worked through before an order is placed, against the chassis you actually intend to buy.
Build
Panels bonded and cured in our own press, bodies mounted on matched subframes, no chassis rail drilled.
Handover
Bodybuilder approval documentation, panel certificates, weight ticket and a walk-round with the driver who will run it.
Support
Warranty work authorised by us, and a repairer network for operators running outside South Australia.
From the works
Three-zone bodies and the bulkhead nobody moves
Half the multi-temperature bodies we survey have never had the second bulkhead shifted. There is a specification lesson in that.
14 March 2026What a K-value does and does not tell you
It describes the panel. It says nothing about the door seals, the drain, or the twelve minutes the door spends open at each drop.
2 December 2025Payload arithmetic before you order
Insulation thickness, floor build-up and the tail lift all come out of the same allowance. Better to do the sum now than at the weighbridge.
9 October 2025Fifty-one people, one works
Wingfield is the whole company — the panel press, the bonding bay, the fit-out shop, the paint booth and the office are inside one building. There is no second site to blame and nobody to hand your body over to.