Energy Savings in Your Warehouse Starts at the Entrance

How you can improve energy efficiency at your warehouse

Manufacturing, warehousing and distribution businesses across the world are looking for ways to cut costs to remain as competitive as possible. But with productivity more crucial than ever, large warehouse doors are being left open for longer and used more frequently.

Because internal temperatures change by as much as 10°C within moments of the doors opening, it’s important that warehouse businesses act to stop energy sneaking out of the back door and making a huge hole in their profits.

This news post covers some options to reduce your energy loss.

How to address air infiltration in your warehouse

One of the biggest loads on an air conditioner is infiltration, which is the leakage of outdoor air into the conditioned space. Infiltration is even more costly for cold-storage warehouses, walk-in coolers, and blast freezers. Several small openings can have the same effect. Check for poorly fitting doors and windows, gaps around wall penetrations or faulty door closers. 

Your warehouse doors should also feature insulation. Doors that are insulated are necessary for any warehouse trying to maintain a strict temperature and defray energy costs.

Because an open door provides the largest portal for energy loss in any warehouse, it's crucial that your Rapid Roller doors are fast and easily repaired. By installing well insulated, fast moving doors, you can save a lot of money from energy escape.

Where a door must remain open, installing an air curtain may be a cost-effective solution.

How can high speed doors prevent energy loss?

Another effective way to decrease energy loss is by installing high-speed rapid doors in your warehouse.

High speed rapid doors are technical enhancements of the more commonly known sectional doors, PVC fabric doors, or roller doors. The main differences are:

• Their durable construction provides a higher operating speed
• Then can sustain a higher number of opening and closing cycles
• They require less maintenance, and
• Have lower repair costs.

Both horizontal and vertical operating door types are available. Yet not all high speed doors are the same.

High speed rapid roller doors are defined as high-performance doors, i.e. non-residential, powered doors, characterized by rolling, folding, sliding or swinging action, that are either high-cycle (minimum 100 cycles/day) or high-speed (minimum 20 inches (508 mm)/second), and two out of three of the following:

1. Made-to-order for exact size and custom features
2. Designed to be able to withstand equipment impact (break-away if accidentally hit by vehicle) or
3. Designed to sustain heavy usage with minimal maintenance. 

Short opening and closing times reduce cooling loss, avoid airflow, and enable a smooth operating procedure, as well as create a more effective barrier against outside elements entering the site.

Remax Doors provides various high speed door styles, from the cost-effective ES40 Rapid Roller Door to the Movidor High Speed Rapid Roller Door and on to a more insulated door such as Movichill Insulated High Speed Rapid Roller Door. Our Movichill High Speed Insulated door offers a unique solution for high-usage freezer doors, where the 'warm-side' of the freezer doorway is humidity and temperature controlled, with thermal Resistance (R-Value) of 0.6m2K/W. 

It's worth making sure you know all the options available to you, as well as the manufacturer's warranty and servicing incentives. More importantly, you have the right product for your needs so that you are not left 'out in the cold'. 

Remember to close the door!

As traffic travels through a facility, industrial doors open and expensive conditioned air pours out. Energy has just been wasted. How do you maintain an energy-efficient environment and still enable efficient traffic flow? A recently completed DASMA study found that if a doorway is used frequently, a high-speed door not only delivers both but can do a better job of saving energy.

Ask us about an onsite consultation

Remax provides a range of entrance automation products and warehouse solutions and is supported by a team of dedicated specialists and a network of over factory-trained distributors throughout Australia. We’ll put that expertise to work for you in a variety of innovative ways.

Contact us today to schedule your consultation with a Remax Specialist.

Your consultation will include:

• A full analysis of your site.
• A consultation and personal copy of our product library to determine the best solutions available to you.
• A no-obligation quote and follow up consultation.