Chiller Cold Room for Pharmaceutical Storage
Cold rooms designed for the pharmaceutical industry must adhere to a range of specific parameters to ensure the products are protected. From suitable insulated panels systems to back up refrigeration, bespoke cold room designs must take into consideration specifications of the industry and the individual business.
MTCSS recently designed a pharmaceutical chiller cold room for our customer. The cold room maintained a temperature of +2°C, with the products entering the cold room at +10°C and exiting the cold room at +2°C. This meant the refrigeration systems were required to pull down the temperature of the products by 8°C within a twelve-hour period.
Chiller Cold Room Design
The 6m x 5m x 2.6m walk-in fridge, also known as a chiller cold room, required an external installation due to the space available. The cold room was built with 100mm thick Kingspan IPN cold room panels with a white food safe finish – for easy cleaning and adherence to industry requirements – and XL forte external finish to suit the external installation.
The cold room panels selected offer lifetime thermal performance, enhanced environmental performance with low GWP, and have been subjected to rigorous fire testing.
The MTCSS team installed an external weatherproof roof, made from a glass tissue reinforced polyester fleece backed PVC single roofing membrane – with guttering fitted to three sides and one downpipe into the soakaway.
Selecting the correct cold room panels and weatherproof roof for the external installation ensures cold rooms are suitable to withstand environmental conditions. This helps provide consistent protection of products and for the longevity of the cold room.
Cold Room Doors
MTCSS supplied and installed a hinged cold room door – 1.4m wide x 2m high – for pedestrian, cage and pallet access. The cold room door was selected with the same finish as the cold room panels (white food safe internal, XL forte external) to suit the external application.
The cold room door installed was an 80mm Kingspan ECOsafe insulated door, offering an airtight seal to maintain the consistent temperature within the cold room.
Refrigeration Systems
The company required a refrigeration system that offered 100% back up – meaning in the event of a unit failure, the internal temperatures would be maintained and the products stored were protected from temperature changes.
The MTCSS team installed split refrigeration – two evaporators and two condensing units – with an auto-changeover panel to enable one system to run at any one time. The two systems swap at scheduled intervals for even usage, and in the event one system fails the other unit kicks in to keep temperatures consistent.
The refrigeration systems used R449A – a refrigerant with low GWP of 1397 (which offers a 64% reduction of the commonly used refrigerant R404A) and has low toxicity and is non-flammable.
MTCSS also supplied and installed LED lighting designed specifically for cold rooms to reduce heat gain, and a push button entrapment alarm to ensure the safety of employees working within the cold room.
Are you looking for bespoke cold room design or a pharmaceutical walk-in fridge? Get in touch with the MTCSS to discuss your project or for your bespoke quote! Call us on 01886 833381, email us at sales@mtcss.co.uk, or fill in an enquiry form below!
Bert De Mooij, Bespoke Chiller Cold Room for Q Flowers Ltd 2021
From coming into contact with MTCSS to the finished product, has been a great and easy process.
The members of the team listened to our wishes and offered us exactly what we needed. From picking the type of cooler machines, the doors, the lights - everything was exactly adjusted to our wishes.
Even though through the COVID period where availability of materials were challenging, the cold room was finished on the date as was planned when signing for the order.
Very professional company from start to finish.
Catherine Hester Fenwick, Ambient storage at Brabourne Wines 2021
‘Brabourne Wine is a small, family run vineyard in Kent. In an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, a Conservation Area and with listed buildings, we needed to find a solution to store our wine without building afresh or making any material differences to the current buildings. MTCSS were amazingly flexible. They worked with us to develop a solution that fitted inside one of our outbuildings. Given the limitations on space and the requirement to have racking suitable for pallets, virtually everything about the project had to be bespoke but Darren never lost patience with the endless queries in the planning phase. Once on site, the team was professional, friendly, flexible and quick. They have delivered a solution which is perfect for our needs and exceeds our expectations. We are at the smaller end of their usual customer base, but we were never made to feel as though we were any less important than a major supermarket chain. We would certainly recommend them to anybody needing a controlled climate for storage (or any other reason)’
Chris Rudd, Frank Rudd & Sons
" From the initial enquiry to project completion, the team at MTCSS were both prompt and professional - delivering exactly to our requirements. " Chris Rudd, Frank Rudd & Sons Office Installation
Cold Room Refurbishment at Steve’s Family Butchers
Steves Family Butchers now has a fantastic refurbished cold room, which actually looks like a whole new cold room thanks to MTcss cold storage solutions. We found they responded in a very quick and helpful manner which meant that they communicated well with us and kept us informed well. The refurbishment was completed to a very high standard in a professional manner. We are exceptionally pleased with the service that we received.
Dual Compartment Cold Room Installation, London
From the beginning I found Gem’s customer service fantastic, out of all of the companies we spoke to for quotes she was the most responsive and attentive. Even when we were still finalising and it wasn’t confirmed if we were proceeding with MTCSS yet, she was always great with keeping in contact to see if we needed anything, and very responsive with emails, and also phone calls.
Andy and Nathan, have been great throughout the entire process. Both have been on hand for any queries we have had and very responsive again to all forms of communication. Everything has been handled promptly and efficiently both before, during and after the build. Any questions we have had they have always gotten back to us with an answer very quickly.
The gentlemen who completed the install here on site, where very friendly and mindful of business operations while completing work. Each day they would check in with who was here in the morning to explain what they would be doing, what access they required, and asked if and how this might affect our operations or customers. Again, they were very clear and open with communication and was happy to help find solutions when we had issues with the shelving.
Overall our experience with you has been very good and we have been left a happy customer. I would also just like to say a thank you to yourself Gem, Nathan and Andy as you have all been very great throughout our customer journey!