Factors To Consider When Designing A Farming & Agricultural Cold Room
MTCSS are experts when it comes to designing and installing cold room solutions for farmers, growers and distributors, and have successfully completed a range of high-quality cold room projects for the farming and agricultural industry.
We understand that within the farming and agricultural industry, ensuring your products are maintained to the highest quality is extremely important. This is why you need to take the following considerations into account when planning and designing your cold room project.
Types of Cold Rooms for Farming & Agriculture
There are various types of cold rooms used in the agricultural industry, ranging from chiller cold rooms to ambient temperature-controlled rooms.
The cold room options suitable for farming and agricultural businesses are:
- Walk-in Fridges (for product requirements from +0 to +8 degrees)
- Walk-In Freezers (ideal for preserving products from +0 to -40 degrees)
- Ambient Areas (available with or without temperature control, for requirements between +10 and +30 degrees)
Before deciding on the best type of cold room for you, our team will take into consideration all your specifications to design a cold storage solution perfect for your business needs.
What Factors Do I Need To Consider for my Cold Room?
For the MTCSS team to design a cold room that’s best suited to your requirements, you should consider the following factors:
- What will your cold room be used for?
- Cold room access requirements
- Customising your cold room for your processes
What will your cold room be used for?
Understanding purpose of your cold room is key to designing a cold storage solution for your requirements – whether you require a food-safe preparation area, a walk-in fridge for storage, or a blast freezer to quickly freeze your produce, MTCSS have the solution. We can even design and build ambient office areas for your staff and personnel!
Your cold room’s intended use has an impact on the properties of your cold room. For example, if you required a freezer cold room for preserving your fresh meats, then we would factor in cold room panels with higher insulation properties, cold room flooring and heater systems into your cold room’s design.
Providing us with as much information about your cold room’s intention will allow us to create a cold room that specifically benefits your farming and horticultural business.
Cold room access requirements
The access requirements for your farming and agricultural business are also specifications that need be known when requesting a cold room design.
The MTCSS team need to understand your access requirements – including what will be moving in and out of your cold room, whether that be staff, pallets, or vehicles; the height of your cold room and building; and more – so we are able to customise your cold room door solutions for your business needs.
For example, if your farming business is operated from an industrial warehouse and requires forklift and vehicle access to transport goods, then a high-speed door could be the ideal solution.
Why choose a high-speed door? Typically, high speed doors are ideal for the farming industry due to the ability to design larger doors (compared to hinged and sliding cold room doors), and the automated door opening systems can be set to open at the speed you require for your operations.
Customising your cold room for your processes
Do you have specific design requirements for your business that you want incorporated into your cold room design? No problem!
Elements of your cold room that can be customised to suit your individual requirements are your cold room doors – including hinged and sliding doors, high-speed doors, fire rated doors and more!), cold room panels, cold room flooring, cold room lighting, cold room storage systems and temperature control.
The MTCSS team work to understand your specific requirements, your processes and operations, so we can design a bespoke cold room customised to your exact specifications – to not only stand the test of time, but to improve the day to day functioning of your business.
The longevity and efficiency of your cold room can be improved with regular cold room maintenance and refurbishment. We recommend scheduling planned maintenance, in particularly for your refrigeration systems, to ensure your temperature controlled rooms are optimally functioning all year round.
Alongside cold room maintenance, MTCSS also hold a wide variety of cold room and cold room door spares over on our E-commerce site for any small fixes or issues you may have with your cold room elements. You can browse our products here!
If you are looking for a cold room solution for your farming and agriculture business – get in touch with our expert team, or request a free quote. Call us on 01886 833381, email us at sales@mtcss.flywheelsites.com or fill in an enquiry form here!
