Cold store air curtains create a controlled barrier of air across open doorways, helping reduce the amount of warm air entering and cold air escaping. This supports more stable internal temperatures, especially in busy cold stores, chilled rooms, food production areas and distribution centres where doors need to stay open for staff, forklifts or goods movement.
Achieve Easy Access and Optimal Climate Separation
At Biddle, we understand the importance of easy and safe access to cold stores while ensuring a constant temperature and minimising misting and icing-up. That's why we have developed patented climate products specifically designed to create the best climate separation between the cold store and the ambient environment. Our innovative solutions ensure a laminar airflow that covers the entire open door, preventing the mixing of warm and cold air between the two rooms.
Why choose Biddle for your cold store needs?
- Easy Access & Fast Logistics: Our climate solutions enable convenient access and smooth logistics for your operations, allowing for efficient movement of goods.
- Constant Climate in Cold Areas: With our products, you can maintain a consistent climate in your cold areas, ensuring optimal conditions for your stored items.
- Full-Scale Service: We provide a complete service package, from initial assessment to ongoing support, ensuring a hassle-free experience.
- Perfect Climate Separation: Our solutions offer efficient separation between different rooms and temperature zones, allowing you to maintain precise control over the climate conditions.
Cold store climate solutions
IsolAir chilled room air curtain
The IsolAir chilled room air curtain is the ideal solution for indoor climate separation that doesn't require heating.
By installing an IsolAir model above the doorway, you can achieve effective separation between two temperature zones while minimising energy consumption. This air curtain is specifically designed for indoor climate separation in applications such as production companies, distribution centres, and small cold stores in supermarkets.
Aldi Choose Biddle to Keep their Cold Store "Every Day Amazing"
Cold storage environments, and supermarket cold chain applications more generally, present unique challenges outside the typical air curtain remit. These include high temperature deltas and the impact of humidity on equipment and cold rooms.
See how Biddle supported Aldi with our IndAC2 air curtain.
Discover Effective Cold Store HVAC Solutions
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Extensive climate separation
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Reduced misting in the door opening
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Easy access and fast logistics
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Improved visibility
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Reduced icing on the floor
FAQs
Yes. By reducing air exchange between cold and ambient areas, a cold store air curtain can help lower the workload on refrigeration systems. This means less energy is wasted recovering lost temperature after every door opening, helping improve efficiency and reduce running costs over time.
Yes. When warm air meets cold air at an open cold store doorway, it can lead to misting, condensation and ice forming on floors. A correctly specified cold store air curtain helps separate the two air masses, improving visibility around the entrance and reducing the risk of slippery surfaces.
Cold store air curtains can help support cold chain compliance by reducing temperature fluctuations when doors are open. By helping prevent warm air entering and cold air escaping, they make it easier to keep chilled or frozen goods within the required temperature range during storage, movement and loading. However, an air curtain should be used as part of a wider cold chain control process. This includes temperature monitoring, correct door management, regular maintenance, staff procedures and documented checks to prove that products have been stored at the right temperature.
Yes, in most cases the air curtain works alongside the existing cold store door rather than replacing it completely. The benefit is that it helps protect the temperature-controlled space when the door is open, allowing faster movement of people, pallets and vehicles without as much heat gain or cold air loss.
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