Design Fundamentals in Industrial Cold Rooms and Modular Cold Rooms
Industrial cold rooms are vital in a range of industries and applications. A cold room is designed to maintain low temperatures for the storage of different products – making the use of cold rooms and cold storage solutions key to a range of industries from food and drink manufacture/ retail, pharmaceutical/medical, horticulture, morgues and funeral homes.
Another type of cold room used in a range of sectors is the modular cold room. Modular cold rooms are designed in a range of specific sizes, meaning they aren’t as customisable as industrial cold rooms. But they are ideal for businesses who require small to medium capacity cold rooms, and they can be quicker and easier to build, potentially helping to reduce installation costs.
MTCSS are experts when it comes to all things cold room design – from cold room panels and cold room doors to refrigeration systems and cold room lighting – and our team work as main contractors across the UK. We design, supply and build walk-in fridges, walk-in freezers, modular cold rooms, and ambient rooms.
Essential Cold Room Considerations
MT Cold Storage Solutions provides both industrial cold room and modular cold rooms for a variety of applications. We consider every element of design, from how a cold room will affect your business processes to how it fits in with your budget, deadlines, and health & safety guidelines. You can rest assured our team will work closely with you to develop a cold storage solution to last the test of time and enhance your business.
Our customers are from a range of industries, so have a variety of individual requirements for cold room design – our job is to evaluate and understand those needs to come up with a cold storage solutions that caters to every one of them. Our cold rooms are available for both small and large scale applications.
When designing your industrial cold storage, there are a range of elements to take into consideration. Besides the needs of your business, we look at the budget available and the timescales of your project. At MTCSS, our job is to ensure clients get efficient storage without compromising the quality of industrial cold room design or installation.
Industrial Cold Room Design
The MTCSS team work with you to understand how your unique processes impact your industrial cold room design. A key factor to consider is the access requirements – we can design cold rooms for personnel access, roll cage and pallet access, forklift and vehicle access, and more. Access requirements also have an implication on your cold room’s size, which is dependent on the amount of space and budget available.
The temperature of your cold room is another key aspect of designing industrial cold storage – this will effect the levels of insulation, the cold room door types, and the refrigeration systems selected. MTCSS can design and build:
• Walk-in fridges
• Walk-in freezers including holding freezers, pull-down freezers and blast freezers
• Ambient temperature controlled rooms
• Dual and multi-compartment cold rooms
• External cold rooms
Our objective is come up with a design element that gives a client control of their storage, preparation, distribution, and supply – depending on their individual requirements
MTCSS can build and install every element required to form a bespoke cold storage facility, including:
• Cold room panelling for chillers, freezers, clean rooms, food storage and preparation
• Cold room doors – hinged doors, sliding doors, atmospheric and specialised doors
• High-speed rapid roll doors for chillers and freezers, external and internal environments
• Cold room flooring from insulated floor to altro flooring for pedestrians, pallet trucks, vehicles and more
• Refrigeration systems, ambient temperature control and air conditioning
• LED lighting for various temperatures
Modular Cold Room Design
Modular cold storage rooms from MTCSS are available in for a range of size to suit small to medium capacity cold room requirements. Chiller cold rooms are ideal for ready food, vegetables and dairy products, while freezer cold room provide refrigeration for frozen goods.
The construction of modular cold rooms requires the use of flat panels for the walls, ceilings, and floors. These cold room panels are made with highly efficient insulated materials, and are designed for easy assembly. Modular cold rooms use a panel systems which cam-locks together, resulting in a simpler and quicker installation process – modular cold rooms are also designed to be food safe and easy to clean.
Although modular cold rooms come in a specific range of sizes, they are still customisable when its comes the cold room door size and type, the cold room flooring and the refrigeration systems. Speak to our expert team to understand the best cold room solution for your business!
Cold Room Doors
Cold room doors are a huge consideration in cold room design. MTCSS offer a range of cold room doors that cater to a variety of designs. These include door solutions for walk-in fridges, walk-in freezers, industrial cold rooms, personnel access, vehicle access and more. Our cold room door solutions include:
• hinged cold room doors
• sliding cold room doors
• high speed doors
• and more!
Whatever the access, temperature, and size requirements – MTCSS has a solution to the problem, and cold room doors to offer longevity, hygiene, reliability, and safety. We can customise cold room door systems bespoke to your requirements, from size and opening systems to colours and temperature specifications.
Contact the MTCSS Team!
MTCSS have experience working within a range of industries, from food manufacture and pharmaceuticals to distribution and construction – so you can be rest assured we have the understanding, the knowledge and capability to take on your project. If you want to know more about how MTCSS can help you as a main contractor, or you would like us to provide a quote for a temperature-controlled facility – get in touch with our team today! Call us on 01886 833381, email us at sales@mtcss.co.uk or fill in an enquiry form here!
If you have already designed a cold room, or already have a functioning cold room, we can also talk you through our nationwide maintenance service. We are ideally located to serve businesses across the country with cold rooms parts and repairs.