Which Cold Room Spares are Environmentally Friendly?

MTCSS understand the importance of ensuring your temperature-controlled solutions are running efficiently and consistently throughout the year. Why? Because this can affect more than just your business processes! 

We also understand the importance of trying to reduce your impact on the environment as a business. 

As a result, our E-commerce shop is home to a range of cold room spares and parts that are environmentally friendly, come from an environmentally conscious manufacturer, and can help to improve your carbon footprint. 

So, which cold room spares are environmentally friendly?

4 Cold Room Spares that are Environmentally Friendly 

There are a range of cold room spares that can help you achieve better cold room efficiency levels, and as a result, your impact on the environment. However, there are four environmentally friendly cold room products that MTCSS recommends.

These products are:

1. Insulated Curtains
2. Cold Room Door Gaskets
3. Green Cold Room Doors
4. Monoblock Refrigeration Units

How Are These Cold Room Spares Environmentally Friendly?

We know that you want to rest assured knowing that the cold room spares you choose for your temperature-controlled storage lives up to their expectations – in terms of both product quality and company transparency. 

The following points demonstrate how each cold room product can contribute towards saving energy and reducing your cold storage’s impact on the environment. 

Insulated Curtains – Insulated curtains are designed to create a flexible thermal barrier between your walk-in cold room and your cold room door, in order to minimise the amount of air ingress and egress when your door is in an open position (impacting the temperature of your cold room).

When used in conjunction with your cold room doors, they work to create a more energy efficient alternative to protect your products and reduce the strain placed on your refrigeration systems – which in turn can help you to save money too!

For example, insulated drop curtains reduce energy consumption for chiller and freezer cold room applications. 

Investing in an insulated curtain also means that you’re less likely to have to replace certain cold room elements, such as your cold room flooring due to ice-build up, which helps reduce your impact on the environment and your carbon footprint. 

Cold Room Door Gaskets – Ensuring your cold room doors are protected and secured from any external air is extremely important in ensuring your cold room is efficient and doesn’t use more energy than needed. One way to combat this is through replacing your cold room door gaskets regularly.

Simply put, your cold room gaskets form the seal around your cold room door to make sure everything is contained. As the main point of access to your cold room, the sealing on your cold room doors is critical to your cold room’s temperature and efficiency levels.

Cold room door gaskets can help to prevent heat loss from your temperature-controlled rooms, and ensuring they are working to their full potential is key to protecting both your products and the environment. 

If your cold room door gasket is broken (or you don’t have one!), air can easily escape from your cold room. If air can easily escape, your refrigeration systems will be forced to work overtime – using an increased amount of unnecessary energy which consequently produces more greenhouse gases and negatively impacts the environment.

So, if you don’t have a cold room door gasket or need to invest in a new one, then the MTCSS shop has got you covered.

Green Cold Room Doors – Green cold room doors are a lightweight and energy efficient cold room door solution that can help you save up to 25% of energy within your walk-in cold rooms.

It is an energy-saving swing door suitable for chilled applications down to -25 degrees C that acts as a better alternative to your standard hinged cold room doors.

Green doors have energy savings of 25% for chiller cold rooms and 33% when used within a freezer cold room application. As well as this, they benefit from integral thermal protection and a unique profile and gasket to prevent thermal bridging.

As a result, Green cold room doors can help you reduce your energy consumption and save the environment at the same time! Its thermal insulation properties will ensure that all products are maintained at the correct temperature, meaning you don’t need to waste any extra energy or produce any additional greenhouse gases.

Monoblock Refrigeration Systems – Monoblock refrigeration systems help to improve the overall functionality of your cold room by keeping your products consistently refrigerated, as well as helping to improve your impact on the environment.

They are an interlinked system that has an evaporator and condensing unit close-coupled with interconnecting pipework, meaning that you only need a small amount of refrigerant gas in order to run your monoblock refrigeration systems effectively. As a result, this is better for the environment due to the reduction of gases being produced.

When you reduce the amount of refrigerant you use, this directly reduces the equivalent amount of CO2 that would otherwise be produced.

An added benefit when using monoblock refrigeration units is that because you don’t need as much refrigerant gas, you can select monoblocks with greener gases – which will ultimately reduce your impact on the environment due to you using gases that are less destructive and harmful.

For example: currently the most widely used gas within monoblock refrigeration systems is Propane, which has a Global Warming Potential (GWP) of 3, compared to refrigerant R449A which has a GWP of 1397.

The removal of several refrigerant gases began in 2014 due to new EU regulations, therefore pushing us to find alternatives that are both safer and more beneficial to preserving the environment. Learn more about the phase out of refrigerant gases here.

By investing in a new or replacement monoblock refrigeration unit, you’re directly reducing your carbon footprint and impact on the environment due to the green gases used.

There are a variety of cold room spares available on our e-commerce shop that can help to improve your cold room and your impact on the environment. Browse our range of cold room spares here. 

Don’t see the part you’re after? Get in contact with one of our team – we’ll always try our best to source the part you require. 

If you have any questions or would like to know more about how to improve your businesses impact on the environment with the help of cold room spares, contact us today. 

Email us at spares@mtcss.co.uk, call us on 01886 833381 or fill in an enquiry form here!