Cold Room Doors & High Speed Doors for Fruit & Vegetable Storage
When storing fruit and vegetables, freshness is everything. Improper storage can drastically reduce the longevity of fresh produce, meaning more waste and less profit. Investing in a good cold room for vegetables and fruit is vital, but you may be wondering what sort of door to choose. Most cold rooms can be fitted with a sliding door, a hinged door, or a high-speed door, and each has its own set of pros and cons. Let’s take a closer look to help you decide which one is right for you.
What Are The Benefits Of Sliding Cold Room Doors?
Sliding cold room doors are always a popular choice for cold rooms, and for good reason. They are the perfect way to protect fruit, vegetables and other fresh produce. Because they open sideways rather than outwards, sliding doors do not take up any extra floor space when they are open. This makes them a great choice for access areas that require large doors. This is especially useful if you require pallet access and storage, as it saves you having to navigate around an open door on a forklift.
Sliding doors also offer greater durability and reliability, making them perfect for situations where they will be used frequently. Finally, sliding doors are self-sealing. The weight of the door combined with the construction of the rail and pressure roller allows it to slide shut on its own, reducing wear and tear and ensuring maximum freshness.
What Are The Benefits Of Hinged Cold Room Doors?
What hinged doors lack in convenience, they make up for in flexibility. As well as standard sizes, hinged cold room doors can be made to measure. This makes them a great choice for specific agricultural functions and other specialist applications. (Although, it is worth noting that sliding doors can also be made to measure.)
Hinged doors can be installed in a range of commercial premises such as hotels, restaurants and supermarkets where a sliding door would not be suitable. Because they tend to be smaller and simpler, hinged doors are usually the cheaper option. Generally speaking, they are the better choice for cold rooms that require less frequent access, such as those used for long term storage.
What Are The Benefits Of High-Speed Doors?
A high-speed rapid roll door is the perfect addition to a chiller or freezer. They open and close much faster than hinged or sliding doors, therefore ensuring the internal temperatures are maintained, as less warm air is let into the cold room, reducing energy loss and keeping your fruit and vegetables protected from external factors.
They are also far more convenient for workplace operatives to use, with no need to abandon warehouse transport vehicles or put goods down in order to open the door by hand.
Finally, high-speed doors ensure that dirt and contamination is minimised, with their faster closing eliminating much of the opportunity for outside air to get into your chiller, freezer, or cold room.
At MTCSS, we are the premier supplier of cold room doors UK wide. For more information on cold room sliding door, hinged cold room door, or anything else involving cold rooms and storage, don’t hesitate to get in touch.
