Why Should Your Business Retrofit Doors To Refrigerated Cabinets

Food and drink retailers are being faced with requirements to adhere to a range of standards and regulations to tackle their environmental impact. From F-Gas compliant refrigerants to energy saving measures, these are all elements to be considered by businesses using cold storage solutions.

Fitting doors to existing refrigerated display cabinets is a tool being rolled out across the UK to help reduce carbon emissions across supermarket estates. A recent study by Imperial College advised that installing doors on the refrigerated cabinets should be mandatory in order to help achieve energy reduction, particularly in higher temperatures.

But there are more benefits than energy savings, and MTCSS are here to help explain.

What Is Door Retrofitting for Refrigerated Display Cabinets?

Retrofitting is the addition of a component or part that it didn’t have when it was originally installed or manufactured. In this case, the addition of doors to refrigerated cabinets which were designed without doors.

What Are The Benefits of Retrofitting Doors To Your Refrigerated Display Cabinets?

One of the key benefits of fitting doors to refrigerated display cabinets is the energy saving aspect. Not only does this contribute to the overall aim to reduce supermarket carbon emissions, but it’s thought that by installing doors to open fronted cabinets could result in energy savings of between 20 and 50 percent.

Energy savings result in reduced costs – and the installation of doors also improves refrigerated display cabinet efficiency. Improved efficiency can help improve the lifetime of cabinets, resulting in reduced requirements for refrigeration system refurbishment and replacement, and less frequent refrigerated cabinet replacements.

In addition to energy savings, cost savings and efficiency, refrigerated cabinets with doors helps reduce ‘cold aisle syndrome’. Essentially, customers don’t want to stand in cold aisles for long periods of time. Refrigerated cabinets with doors reduce the leakage of cool air into ambient aisles, encouraging customers to spend longer browsing the products in cabinets. The result? Customers are likely to be in the store for longer to spend more money.

This method is often combined with other energy saving methods to improve energy efficiency, including changing to LED lighting systems and fitting aerofoils.

Energy saving approaches are quickly being rolled out across supermarkets and food & drink retail stores across the UK – but the benefits are beyond the energy saving. If you use refrigerated display cabinets in your business and you’d like to find out how you can reduce your energy usage, the MTCSS are here to help!

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