Rugged storage & industrial equipment since 1987
Built for the
conditions you actually have.
Cobalt Ridge designs rugged drives, edge compute, and field sensing equipment for the sites where standard-grade hardware quietly fails: distribution center freezers, sortation lines that never stop, loading docks, and store back-rooms that nobody gets to shut down to fix.
The warranty promise
Coverage that assumes your equipment gets used the way it was actually built to be used.
Three years standard on the SF-40 family, extendable to seven. Backed by an authorized service network so a repair never has to be a guess.
Three lines, one enclosure philosophy
What we build
Every product Cobalt Ridge ships starts from the same premise: the electronics inside are usually fine. What fails is dust, vibration, heat, and whatever a well-meaning field tech did to the enclosure last winter.
Rugged Storage
SF and CX family drives, sealed and shock-rated for distribution centers, cold storage, and retail back-of-house use.
View drive families →Industrial Compute
Fanless IC-Series edge servers and controllers built to run on a distribution center floor, not a data center.
View IC-Series →Field Equipment
Weathermark environmental sensor arrays and EN-Series enclosures for unattended, remote monitoring sites.
View field equipment →Cobalt Ridge, by the numbers
Nearly four decades in the field
Trusted by operations that do not get to power down
Where Cobalt Ridge equipment runs
Product lines
Storage, compute, and field equipment
Three catalogs, one design rule: every enclosure is sealed and calibrated as a unit at the factory. That is also why opening one outside an authorized service event ends the warranty, covered in full on the Support & Warranty page.
Rugged storage, flagship line
SF-40 Family
The SF-40 is Cobalt Ridge's sealed-enclosure rugged drive, built for equipment that sits in a distribution center freezer, on a sortation line that runs three shifts, or on a loading dock that never really closes. The name carries a small piece of engineering trivia: the 40 in SF-40 is the family's rated low-temperature limit in Celsius, not a model number.
Available in SATA and NVMe interfaces, 2.5 inch and M.2 form factors, in capacities from 1TB to 8TB. Standard on a three-year warranty, extendable to seven years under an Extended Care contract.
| SF-40 family | −40°C to +85°C |
|---|---|
| CX family | −20°C to +70°C |
| IC-Series | −30°C to +60°C |
| Weathermark / EN-Series | Rated per enclosure, IP66–IP67 |
| Capacities | 1TB / 2TB / 4TB / 8TB |
|---|---|
| Interfaces | SATA III 6Gb/s, NVMe PCIe Gen3 / Gen4 |
| Form factors | 2.5 in, M.2 2280 |
| Operating temp | −40°C to +85°C |
| Storage temp | −55°C to +95°C |
| Ingress rating | IP67, sealed unibody enclosure |
| Operational shock | 40G, 11ms, per MIL-STD-810H |
| Non-operational shock | 1,000G, 0.5ms |
| Vibration | Random vibration, MIL-STD-810H Method 514 |
| Endurance (4TB model) | 1,800 TBW |
| Standard warranty | 3 years from installation date |
| Extended Care | Up to 7 years total coverage |
| Service requirement | Authorized Service Partner only |
Rugged storage, commercial grade
CX Family
Built on the same sealed-enclosure principle as SF-40 for customers whose sites are demanding but not extreme: distribution center floors, store back-rooms, and standard dry warehousing rather than cold storage or a loading dock in January.
| Capacities | 1TB / 2TB / 4TB |
|---|---|
| Interface | SATA III 6Gb/s |
| Form factor | 2.5 in |
| Operating temp | −20°C to +70°C |
| Ingress rating | IP54 |
| Standard warranty | 2 years, extendable to 5 under Extended Care |
IC-100
Single-board fanless edge controller. DIN-rail mount, 9–36VDC wide input, dual gigabit ports.
IC-400
Rack-mount edge server, fanless chassis, sealed front panel, redundant power input option.
Industrial compute
IC-Series edge controllers
Fanless edge servers and controllers for distribution center floors and store back-of-house rooms where a data-center-grade rack is not an option. Rated −30°C to +60°C operating, IP54 sealed front panel, three-year standard warranty.
Warranty terms for IC-Series →Field equipment
Weathermark sensor arrays & EN-Series enclosures
Unattended monitoring for cold storage and warehouse environments that get checked on a schedule, not in real time: temperature, humidity, vibration, and door-seal sensing in a sealed EN-Series enclosure, with solar or battery power options for yard and dock locations without reliable line power.
Ask about a site survey →Weathermark WM-2
Four-sensor array, solar-assisted battery pack, IP66 enclosure, two-year warranty.
EN-Series enclosures
Standalone sealed enclosures sized for third-party instrumentation, IP66 or IP67 depending on model.
Certifications & compliance
What backs the ratings
ISO 9001:2015
Certified quality management system covering the Golden, Colorado and Ipoh, Malaysia manufacturing sites.
RoHS Compliant
All current product lines meet RoHS restricted-substance requirements.
CE Marked
EU-bound SF-40, CX, and IC-Series units carry CE marking for the applicable directives.
UL Recognized Components
Power input stages on IC-Series controllers use UL Recognized components.
MIL-STD-810H
SF-40 family shock and vibration testing follows MIL-STD-810H test methods.
IP Ingress Ratings
IP54 to IP67 depending on product line, verified per enclosure at the factory.
Warranty & service policy
Support & Warranty
Coverage terms, what ends coverage, how to open a claim, and how contract renewals work. If your equipment is part of a fleet under an account manager, they can walk through any of this directly; otherwise the Claims Portal is the fastest path.
Coverage summary
What is covered, and for how long
Standard warranty terms by product line
SF-40 family
Standard: 3 years, from installation date
Extended Care: up to 7 years total
CX family
Standard: 2 years, from installation date
Extended Care: up to 5 years total
IC-Series
Standard: 3 years, from ship date
Extended Care: up to 6 years total
Weathermark / EN-Series
Standard: 2 years, from ship date
Extended Care: up to 4 years total
Installation date is used for SF-40 and CX because field units commonly sit in a customer's own inventory before being deployed. IC-Series and Weathermark use ship date. Your contract number determines which applies; the Claims Portal looks this up automatically.
What ends coverage
Unauthorized configuration changes. Any firmware, RAID, or configuration change made outside an approved profile ends coverage for the affected unit, effective from the date of the change.
Unauthorized repair. Coverage ends if the enclosure is opened, or an internal part is replaced, by anyone other than Cobalt Ridge or a listed Authorized Service Partner.
Both rules exist for the same reason: SF-40 and CX units are sealed and calibrated as a single unit at the factory. Reopening one outside a controlled service event breaks the seal and can shift the thermal calibration the rating depends on. It is not a technicality, the part genuinely performs differently afterward.
Filing a claim
How a claim moves from report to resolution
Six stages, whether the claim is a single drive or a full line down. A claim is reviewed against the contract on file, the unit's service history, and, where a technician has already been out, the field service report.
Reported
The claim is opened and the affected unit is identified by serial or asset tag.
Stabilized
If a site is down, we work options to keep it running while the claim is worked.
Coverage Review
Your contract and the unit's service history determine what the warranty pays for.
Repaired
Parts and, where needed, an Authorized Service Partner get to the unit.
Closed Out
The commercial side of the claim closes out, including any goodwill review.
Fed Back
Verified failures are fed back into engineering and the product line.
Filing a claim runs through six steps, in order:
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Open the claim in the Claims Portal
Sign in with your account credentials and select the affected unit by serial number or asset tag. A portal session issues your RMA number and a claim reference in the format WR-YYYY-NNNN (for example, WR-2026-0392) for tracking.
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Provide proof of coverage
Your contract or purchase order number. The portal matches this against the contract record automatically for most accounts.
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Describe the incident
What happened, when, and under what conditions. Be specific about environment (temperature, exposure, impact) where relevant.
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Attach evidence
Photos of the unit and its asset tag or serial number, and a copy of the field service report if a technician was already dispatched.
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Disclose any configuration changes
State plainly whether the unit's configuration was changed outside its approved profile. This is checked against system records regardless, but an accurate claim resolves faster than one that needs to be reconciled.
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Track resolution
Most claims resolve within a standard cycle. Claims that fall outside strict contract terms may still qualify for a discretionary goodwill review by the Warranty Resolution team; this is decided case by case and is not guaranteed.
Documentation
Datasheets & manuals
Full datasheets, dimensional drawings, and service manuals are issued through an active service contract login. Account managers can also send a copy directly.
Installation & Service Manual
Covers mounting, wiring, and authorized-service procedures across product lines.
Download PDFAuthorized Service Partners
Repairs that keep coverage intact
Cobalt Ridge maintains a network of Authorized Service Partners trained and equipped to open, repair, and recalibrate sealed units without ending the warranty. Depot-level repairs run through Cobalt Ridge facilities directly; partner-level repairs run through certified third-party technicians in the field.
Partner status is not general electronics certification, it is specific to Cobalt Ridge enclosures and is renewed on a fixed cycle. Your account manager or the Claims Portal can confirm whether a given technician is currently listed.
Contract renewals
Extended Care renewals & strategic accounts
Renewal cadence
Extended Care contracts renew on the purchase anniversary. Reminders go out at 90, 60, and 30 days before the renewal date.
Strategic accounts
Larger fleets and multi-year contracts are assigned a dedicated account manager rather than routed through general support.
Lapsed coverage
A contract that lapses before renewal can typically be reinstated within a limited window; after that, units are treated as out of contract.
Since 1987, Golden, Colorado
About Cobalt Ridge
The Golden, Colorado plant where it started, still the primary manufacturing site today.
Founding
Two engineers and a complaint about enclosures
Cobalt Ridge started in 1987 in a leased machine shop bay in Golden, founded by two mechanical engineers who had spent the prior decade building sensor and control housings for grocery cold-storage and warehouse conveyor systems. Their complaint was consistent: the electronics were usually fine, the enclosures around them were not. Freezer condensation worked its way in, conveyor vibration cracked solder joints, and field repairs, done with good intentions and the wrong tools, often undid whatever protection the enclosure was supposed to provide in the first place.
The company is named for the ridge west of town, a minor foothills formation named by prospectors in the 1870s for a vein of blue-gray rock that never produced much ore. It was picked for having no baggage and being easy to say, not for any connection to the metal.
The first product, a sealed housing for a commercial drive used in a warehouse sortation control system, shipped in 1989. Everything since has been an extension of the same idea: build the enclosure so the part inside it survives conditions the part was never rated for on its own.
Founded, Golden, Colorado
Four employees, one leased machine shop bay.
First sealed drive housing ships
Built for a warehouse sortation control system.
Industrial Compute line launches
Customers began asking for full edge controllers, not just enclosures.
First depot outside Colorado
National service contracts made a single-location repair model impractical.
Ipoh, Malaysia assembly plant opens
Added capacity for Asia-Pacific customers and CX-line production.
Approx. 3,800 employees
Two manufacturing plants, three service depots.
Footprint
Plants and depots
Golden, Colorado
Primary manufacturing plant. Original site, expanded several times since 1987.
Ipoh, Malaysia
Assembly plant, opened 2007. Serves Asia-Pacific customers and CX-line production.
Aurora, Colorado
US service depot, separate from the Golden manufacturing site.
Frankfurt, Germany
European service depot.
Singapore
Asia-Pacific service depot.
Roughly 3,800
People, across manufacturing, service, and support, as of 2026.
How we write things down
What we mean by our values
We publish torque specs, not mission statements. If a value belongs on this page, it should read like an engineer wrote it and nobody softened it afterward.
Say what a part does, and what it does not
A spec sheet that oversells a rating is a liability wearing a warranty label. We would rather under-promise a number than have it fail in the field.
Test past the number on the warranty card
Rated limits are set with margin behind them, not at the edge of what a unit survived once in a lab.
Build serviceable on purpose
Sealed does not mean disposable. It means the repair happens under controlled conditions, which is also why the authorized-service rule exists and gets explained rather than just enforced.
Put a person on the phone before the contract runs out
Renewal reminders exist because a lapsed contract helps nobody, least of all a customer who finds out during a claim.
Join Cobalt Ridge
Careers at Cobalt Ridge
We hire people who would rather fix the actual problem than paper over it, across manufacturing, field service, warranty resolution, and procurement. Openings below are current as of this posting cycle.
Warranty Resolution Specialist
Review incoming claims against contract terms, service history, and field reports; determine coverage outcomes within your resolution authority and escalate borderline cases for discretionary review. Coordinates daily with field service, parts, and contract teams.
How to apply →Field Service Engineer
Perform authorized on-site repair and recalibration for SF-40 and CX installations. Requires Authorized Service Partner certification training, provided on hire.
How to apply →Supplier Quality Manager
Own quality standards across the preferred-supplier program, from commodity code specification through incoming inspection. Works closely with manufacturing and procurement on approval thresholds and supplier scorecards.
How to apply →Account Manager, Strategic Accounts
Own the commercial relationship for our largest fleet customers: contract renewals, escalation handling, and coordination with Warranty Resolution on cases that affect multi-year agreements.
How to apply →Why here
What you get, beyond the offer letter
Certification, not just a badge
Authorized Service Partner training is paid time, not something you're expected to pick up on evenings and weekends.
Health, retirement, and field per diem
Standard benefits from day one for full-time roles, plus per diem for depot and field-service travel.
A resolution authority you actually use
Warranty and account roles carry real discretionary limits from the start, not a rubber stamp that routes everything upward.
Reach us
Contact Cobalt Ridge
Headquarters & plant
Golden, Colorado
4400 Ridge ParkwayGolden, CO 80401
United States
+1 (303) 555-0110
US service depot
Aurora, Colorado
1180 Commerce LoopAurora, CO 80011
United States
+1 (303) 555-0134
Assembly plant
Ipoh, Malaysia
Lot 22, Jalan Perusahaan 4Ipoh, Perak 31350
Malaysia
+60 5 555 0122
Service depot
Frankfurt, Germany
Industriestrasse 1860528 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
+49 69 555 0198
Service depot
Singapore
19 Tuas LoopSingapore 637345
+65 555 0177
Support hotline
Warranty & technical support
+1 (866) 555-0142
Monday to Friday, 6:00 to 18:00 Mountain Time. Strategic accounts, contact your account manager directly.
Warranty claims
Claims Portal
Active service contract holders file and track claims through the Claims Portal. RMA numbers, claim status, and Authorized Service Partner lookups all run through the same system.
Internal account network. Contact the support hotline if you need a login issued.
Doing business with Cobalt Ridge
Suppliers & procurement
Cobalt Ridge purchases raw materials, components, and contracted services through a preferred-supplier program using standard commodity codes. All purchases are PO-backed; invoices without a matching purchase order will be returned.
Prospective suppliers can request catalog inclusion through the procurement mailbox listed below.
General inquiries
info@cobaltridge.us
Careers
careers@cobaltridge.us
Procurement
procurement@cobaltridge.us
Seen at UiPath FUSION 2026
Demo recordings
Cobalt Ridge appeared as a working example during the UiPath FUSION 2026 keynote. The clips below are recordings of that session.