Film highlights coldstore safety
August 1st 2006

Air curtain technology specialist, Biddle, has produced a short film to highlight the problems associated with inefficient barriers between internal and external environments in coldstores.

The film, made on location at a frozen seafood company, is available direct from Biddle's UK head office free of charge. It supports Biddle's launch in the UK of its MAT (multiple airstream technology) air curtain designed to prevent misting, ice build-up and energy loss.

It comes at a time of increasing cases of employee injury claims, Government plans to introduce corporate manslaughter legislation, and soaring energy costs as a result of oil price inflation.

Biddle's Adrian Higginson said: "Coldstores are major energy users but they also need to provide continuous access in order to receive and despatch goods efficiently.

This means they are constantly losing energy yet most are equipped with door systems or plastic strips which often give inadequate performance. Now we can provide an efficient triple layer, air curtain which does not hinder access but actually acts as an efficient barrier between internal and external environments." The development of the MAT system emerged after computer simulations of air turbulence, temperature and velocity at Biddle's Dutch research facility. The work was prompted by demand for a safe, energy-saving barrier from frozen food producers and distributors in France where there are already more than 50 installations of Biddle MAT.

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