Refrigerated Display Cabinets: Improving Efficiency & Energy Usage with MTCSS
Energy efficiency is key for businesses at this time – with increasing energy prices and growing concerns around environmental impact, ensuring your cold storage is running efficiently is key. For food and drink retail businesses, whether this is a supermarket or a farm shop, the efficiency of your refrigerated display cabinets is particularly vital.
Why? Refrigerated display cabinets maintain chilled or frozen temperatures, not only protecting your products, but also displaying them aesthetically for your customers. With a high volume of refrigerated cabinets within most food and drink stores, they can result in high energy usage – and therefore high energy costs.
Retail refurbishments (including both cold rooms and refrigerated display cabinets) can help improve the efficiency for your businesses’ cold storage – in turn helping to reduce energy consumption and costs, as well as helping to reduce your negative environmental impact.
Elements of Refrigerated Display Cabinet Refurbishment
MTCSS has an expert team to refurbish your refrigerated display cabinets, both on site and off site depending on your business requirements. But what retail refurbishment works do the MTCSS team to carry out to improve efficiency and energy usage?
• Installing doors to refrigerated cabinets: this helps reduce ambient, non-refrigerated air impacting the cooled air by creating a physical barrier. When your cabinet doors are closed this retains the cooled air, meaning the refrigeration units don’t need to work as hard.
Installing two half doors to refrigerated cabinets, as opposed to one full door, also means that the cabinet is only half exposed to ambient air. This can be an additional energy saving measure and self-closing doors can help reduce the risk of doors being left open by customers and employees.
Doors can be retrofitted to existing refrigerated display cabinets, as opposed to needing to replace your existing cabinets with entirely new ones!
• Installing cabinet night blinds: if your refrigerated cabinets do not have doors, these are an option to help reduce temperature fluctuation when customers don’t need to access products – for example, when the store is closed and at night time.
• Replacing parts on cabinet doors: similarly cold room doors, the gaskets and seals are vital to maintain the efficiency of your refrigerated cabinets. Replacing the door seals accurately reduces the loss of chilled air – this means the refrigeration systems don’t have to work as hard, improving efficiency and energy usage.
• Deep cleaning your refrigerated cabinets: deep cleaning your cabinets has multiple benefits, from improving the aesthetics and cleanliness, to improving efficiency. Deep cleaning refrigerated display cabinets helps ensure the coils and compressors are working efficiently. This helps keep heat transfer to normal levels.
• Replacing missing and damaged parts: if parts of your refrigerated display cabinets are missing or damaged, your cabinet will not be running efficiently – which will mean your units are working harder and using more energy.
Some of these parts include: cabinet end walls, dividers, aerofoil ticket strips, weir risers and air grills
Upgrading other elements of your refrigerated display cabinets can also improve efficiency and energy usage. Replacing your cabinet refrigeration systems with new, more efficient systems can reduce the workload to save energy. Airflow within cabinets can be improved by installing more efficient fans and upgrading the lights to LED lights can help to reduce energy usage.
MTCSS’ Retail team are experts when it comes retail refurbishment, display cabinet refurbishment and cold room refurbishment. We understand the importance of saving money in this financial climate and how vital it is to consider the impact on the environment.
The MTCSS Shop also stocks a range of parts with next day delivery (dependent on stock levels) if you need to replace parts fast! View our range of cabinet parts here.
If you’d like to know more about how we can help your business with refurbishment – get in touch with our team! Call us on 01886 833381, email us at sales@mtcss.co.uk or fill in an enquiry form here.
Did you know MTCSS achieved ISO 14001 in 2022? This accreditation demonstrates our commitment to reducing our environmental impact and helping our planet. Read more about it here!
