Cold Rooms – What Are The Benefits For Your Business?
MTCSS Contracts are experts when it comes to designing and building cold rooms for your business. Working as main contractors for cold room construction, MTCSS oversee every aspect of your cold storage solution from design & installation to health & safety and waste management.
A cold room is the ideal place to store, preserve and package your products as they prolong the life and help prevent spoilage and growth of bacteria.
Depending on your requirements, MTCSS can design and create a cold room specific to the products and temperatures required by your industry. But what are the benefits of a cold room? We’re glad you asked.
Cold Room Benefits
There are a wide range of benefits a cold room can provide you, depending on your requirements. Some of the main benefits to investing in a cold room for your business are:
1. A Range of Uses
Cold rooms can be designed and built as chillers, freezers or ambient areas depending on the temperature range you require and the purpose your cold room will be used for.
For example walk-in fridges and chiller cold rooms (cold rooms that maintain a temperature range between +0 and +8 degrees) are ideal for a large number of industries and products. This is due to their ability to reliably refrigerate and maintain the temperatures you need for your products.
Walk-in freezers and freezer cold rooms are suitable for products needing to be stored at temperatures from +0 down to -40 degrees. Freezers can be more expensive to build due to the need for heated and insulated cold room flooring, as well as higher levels of insulation, additional heaters for your cold room doors to prevent ice-build up and further health & safety issues.
As well as walk-in fridges and freezer cold rooms, ambient rooms have a wide range of applications too! Whether you need an ambient room for pharmaceutical storage or simply for storing your stock at a milder temperature (such as flowers), ambient areas are perfect for industries requiring storage between +10 and +30 degrees.
View our case study page here to read real-life applications of walk-in fridges, freezers and ambient areas that have been installed by MTCSS.
2. Customisable Cold Room Elements
MTCSS can adhere to a range of different sizes for your cold room, and can even work to your bespoke business measurements.
Whether you need a small cold room squeezed into the corner of your facility, or you require an entire warehouse filled with multiple cold rooms – we’ve got a customisable cold room solution for you.
Not only can we customise the size of your cold rooms, but we can also customise a range of other elements too! We can customise to your requirements include cold room doors, refrigeration/temperature control, lighting, storage solutions such as flooring, and cold room flooring.
Being able to adhere to your specific requirements allows us to provide you with a high-quality cold storage solution that can benefit your business, which is why you can trust that MTCSS have your best interests at heart.
Get in touch with our team today to discuss your custom cold room requirements!
3. Freeing Up Space
Having sufficient space to store everything is an issue we all face, especially within a business. Depending on the industry you’re in, you may think that having a cold room will cause you additional spatial challenges, or that the space being used could be better suited to other purposes.
However, this doesn’t have to be the case. MTCSS can work with the space you have and create a turnkey temperature-controlled solution to maximise your space and operations.
For example, creating an ambient room with temperature control by using your existing preparation area would allow you to benefit from a consistently refrigerated room, whilst also being able to prepare your products in there simultaneously.
Essentially, investing in a cold room doesn’t mean you have to sacrifice your business space – it could end up saving you space!
4. Backup Capabilities and Cold Room Storage
Not only will a cold room provide an extra storage area they can also be used for added protection of your products.
The airtight construction of a cold room will allow the temperature of the area to remain at a lower and a constant temperature for a longer period of time (provided the cold room door stays shut) – allowing you to store your products for longer in the event of an electrical outage/emergency.
Adding remote temperature-control and back-up refrigeration systems into your cold rooms is beneficial for emergency situations, and would be recommended if you are a business that heavily relies on your products being kept at a consistent temperature (for example, a food and drink retail store).
Your cold rooms can also be designed to meet the storage needs you require by adding cold room shelving. Free-standing storage racks can be utilised so they can be moved in and out of your cold room as the stock needs change.
Wire racks are particularly beneficial to use because fresh air can constantly surround the products that are stored on the wire rack, ensuring that your products stay at the highest quality possible for your customers.
5. Saving Money
We all throw away food and other products that spoil because we don’t store them correctly – cold rooms can help you to save money as a business by keeping spoilage levels to a minimum.
This is due to the consistent temperature levels that a cold room can maintain. For example, a cold room can keep fruits and vegetables at the correct temperature whilst also controlling the moisture level to help extend the life of the fresh produce longer until it can be used; helping to minimise waste and therefore save money.
Fruits left at room temperature can spoil quickly – if you grow your own fresh produce, a cold room can keep your harvest fresher for longer.
Furthermore, cold rooms can be used to extend the life of other bulk materials such as flour, sugar and other cooking ingredients.
Another way cold rooms can help to save you money as a business is through your energy bills. An efficiently running cold room will cost less to run than other forms of cold storage such as multiple traditional fridges and freezers due to the refrigeration systems being more powerful and effective.
However it is extremely easy to overlook your cold room efficiency levels, so booking in cold room maintenance or a cold room condition report could help you identify areas of your cold room that need refurbishing before you start to notice an increase in your energy bills, and a decrease in your product quality.
Enquire about cold room maintenance here!
Contact MTCSS For Your Cold Room Requirements
Whatever your business needs are, you may want to consider adding a cold room to enhance your processes.
Regardless of how large or small your cold room needs to be, MTCSS can offer the perfect cold room solution for you. Our temperature-controlled solutions can be custom designed to fit your needs and our team of experts can also provide tailored advice on the best solution for you.
MTCSS can also supply you with a range of cold room spares & parts needed for your cold room. Our e-commerce shop holds a wide variety of cold room spares, click here to browse our list of products!
If you’d like to find out more about how a cold room could benefit your business, get in contact with our team! Call us on 01886 833381, email us at sales@mtcss.co.uk or fill in an enquiry form here for a free quote.
