Everything You Need To Know About Investing In A Cold Room For Your Business In 2023
MTCSS are cold storage experts – with a competent team, a multitude of industry experience and a wide range of skills, you can be confident that MTCSS can design, supply and build a cold storage solution to suit your exact business needs.
Whether you work within the pharmaceutical industry, the warehousing industry, or the food & drink industry, we can create a bespoke temperature-controlled solution to benefit your business.
So, you want to invest in a cold room, but don’t know where to start? You’re in the right place.
What Is A Cold Room?
Put simply, a cold room is a temperature-controlled envelope that utilises refrigeration systems to achieve a consistent temperature range.
Cold rooms can have a range of uses and can be customised depending on your requirements.
There is also a range of different types of cold room available. The most common are:
- Walk-in fridges / Chiller cold rooms – ideal for maintaining temperatures between +0 and +8°c)
- Walk-in freezers / Freezer cold rooms – Ideal for temperatures ranging from -40 to +0°c
- Ambient areas with or without temperature control – Ideal for temperatures ranging between +10 and +30°c
- Dual and multi-compartment rooms
The type of cold room you require will depend on what is being stored in there, and what temperature requirements it must meet.
What If I Don’t Know The Type Of Cold Room I Need?
Fear not, as the MTCSS Contracts team will work with you to understand your business and its processes, so we can help design the perfect cold room for you.
Alternatively, you could consider the below points which might help you to understand the requirements typically asked for a cold room design.
Considerations You Should Take Before Investing In A Cold Room
Before you dive straight in and ask for quotes for a cold room, there are a few considerations you should take prior to this to help understand what elements you may require.
These considerations include:
• The Purpose Of Your Cold Room
Are you after a cold room to store and preserve your products? Or are you looking for a preparation area for your pharmaceuticals? No matter what your cold room will be used for, MTCSS have a solution that’s right for you.
Knowing the purpose, as well as the size and shape, of your cold room will allow our team to determine the correct type of cold room you require (walk-in fridge, freezer cold room or ambient area) for the perfect solution for your business.
• Does Your Cold Room Need To Be Fire-Rated?
If you want to protect your products further with a fire-rated solution, this is something you should consider and take into account before requesting a cold room quote.
MTCSS offer a range of fire resistant and fire-rated panel systems depending on your application and requirements – this includes fire rated cold room panels, fire-rated doors and fire-rated dividing walls.
These fire-resistant cold room elements are bespoke, and so require a certain level of detail upon enquiry. Ensuring you know your individual requirements makes it a lot easier for your contractors!
• Specific Regulations That Your Cold Room Needs To Meet
This refers to the specific requirements you may have for your cold room application. For example, is there a specific temperature range that your cold room must meet?
Additionally, whether your cold room must adhere to a specific level of cleanliness for your industry (EG; pharmaceutical cleanrooms) or must be installed to achieve a certain standard (using food safe materials for food & drink manufacturers) are key bits of information when investing in a cold room.
• Customisable Cold Room Elements
There are several customisable elements of your cold room that we can make bespoke to your requirements such as: cold room doors, cold room windows and cold room shelving.
Knowing the elements in your cold room that you would like customised allows the team to adhere to your bespoke requests.
Additional Cold Room Components To Consider
As well as the above considerations, there are specific components in your cold room that you should think about, such as your:
- Cold Room Doors
- Cold Room Lighting and Storage
- Temperature Control
Cold Room Doors
There are an array of cold room door solutions available to suit your application, so letting us know the sizes and access requirements they must meet will allow us to find the perfect cold room door solution for you!
Not only are there a wide variety of cold room door solutions available, but they can also be customised to your requirements.
Whether you need a hinged cold room door for your freezer cold room, a sliding cold room door for your walk-in fridge, or a vision panel added to your cold room door – these are important elements that we need to know to provide you with the most beneficial solution for you.
Cold Room Lighting and Storage
Do you require any lighting or storage solutions for your cold room?
MTCSS offers high-quality lighting solutions that integrate with cold rooms and minimise heat gain, as well as cold room shelving that can help you save precious floor space within your walk-in fridges and freezers. Let a member of our team know if you require any lighting or storage solutions within your cold room when enquiring!
Temperature Control
MTCSS can provide temperature-controlled solutions for walk-in fridges (from +1 to +8 degrees), freezer cold rooms (from -1 to -40 degrees) and ambient temperature-controlled areas (from +10 to +30 degrees).
Knowing your requirements will allow our team to find a refrigeration system that is most beneficial (and efficient) to you.
Don’t know the exact temperature range needed for your cold room? No problem, get in contact with our expert team today to discuss your requirements and we can find an ideal solution for you!
Cold Room Maintenance
When investing in a cold room, you should consider the longevity of your cold room solution.
For example, are you looking to utilise your walk-in freezer for the next 25 years? If you’re looking for a long-term cold room solution then it is essential that you keep it maintained and refurbished regularly – and that its built for purpose.
MTCSS Retail offer an exceptional cold room maintenance plan as well as a cold room condition report that allows you to identify the elements in your cold room that need refurbishing or replacing.
For more information on cold room maintenance and cold room condition reports, click here!
Cold Room Spares
You will find that elements of your cold room will wear naturally over time, and sometimes they are broken as a result of accidents. One way to combat this? Investing in cold room spares.
Cold room spares and parts allow your cold room to stay functioning and efficient, without having to completely move your products our of your cold room when there is an issue.
We have a wide range of cold room spares on our e-commerce site, click here to browse our range of high-quality cold room parts.
If you want to invest in a high-quality cold room from reputable contractors, MTCSS have got you covered. Enquire with our experts today for help with a temperature-controlled solution that could benefit your business.
Email us at sales@mtcss.flywheelsites.com, call us on 01886 833381 or fill in an enquiry form here! We’d be more than happy to answer any questions or discuss any cold room requirements that you may have.
