Top 9 Benefits of Cold Storage
Cold storage enables all sorts of goods to be kept at a low temperature. But why do we need it?
Today, cold storage is an integral part of everyday life so much so, few of us realise how many benefits cold room storage offers. Temperature controlled environments allow us to enjoy varied lifestyles, rich with convenience, colour, pleasure and sensory fulfilment.
From the huge choice of clothing on display in our shops to the exciting array of tasty foods we enjoy daily from around the world and the endless medicines at our disposable when we are unwell, cold storage plays a vital role in modern life.
Saving valuable time and money for businesses whilst ensuring a vast variety of products reach customers at their best from all over the globe, there are a huge number of advantages to cold storage. Here are the top 9 benefits of cold storage you’ve probably never given much thought.

Top 9 Benefits of Cold Storage
1. Damage prevention: Heat can stimulate the activity of a large number of chemical and biological processes. Whatever the items you store, from equipment to medicine, botanicals, vaccines and cleaning agents, cold room storage guarantees products reach us in the optimum condition the manufacturer intended.
2. Quality control: Today, goods are transported across regions and countries for all sorts of different durations. Maintaining every item at the same temperature and humidity level until it is purchased by the consumer ensures quality control is sustained at every stage of the supply chain.
With producers able to stipulate storage instructions for goods they can guarantee critical quality control for every item sold.
3. External variables eliminated: Cold storage effectively suspends an item’s history so it is practically frozen in time although of course, the item is not frozen but kept cool. In doing so external variable factors, such as the weather, logistics, lighting or the changing temperature of a laboratory environment, are easily controlled.
4. Peace of mind: The capacity to stow items at a pre-set temperature means you can be sure goods are safe to use. As a result, cold storage is an important part of commercial compliance carefully monitored by industry regulations.
For the UK healthcare industry for example, the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency (MHRA) set strict conditions for the use of cold room storage, including cold room design.
5. Time-saving: Without cold room storage, staff would have to spend enormous amounts of time and energy ensuring items are kept at the precise temperature and humidity levels required for safe and effective use.
By maintaining the temperature controlled environment mechanically, staff in a laboratory and a huge number of other temperature-controlled spaces can move quickly in and out of cold storage whilst concentrating their time on the more complex tasks central to their role.
6. Economical: More complex cold room designs enable businesses to store goods at a variety of temperatures at different times. Not only does varied cold storage ensure each item is kept at its best, it also saves lots of space and energy by enabling staff to stow a large number of items in one place.
7. Prolonged use: Cold storage makes it possible to prolong the life of products which would otherwise perish. The existence of a wide array of different types of cold storage rooms enable people around the globe to enjoy all sorts of items, from vital medicines to delicious foods
and beautiful flowers, as often as they choose. Without cold storage environments, our lives would certainly look very different.
For many items it is even possible to remove some of the product from the packaging for use without damaging the rest of the product meaning businesses can get more use from a product if it is kept in cold storage.
8. Bespoke design: Temperature controlled environments come in a lots of different designs, including bespoke constructions. Learn more about our bespoke cold room design service which includes a personalised design to suit your unique needs as well as installation and maintenance.
9. Cost-saving: For businesses, all these advantages add up to high quantities of cost- savings. From the flexibility cold storage offers for logistics to better use of staff time, optimum performance of products, economical storage of large quantities of goods and
prolonged product use, companies are able to provide better: customer service, products and working conditions due to the existence of cold storage.
Get world-class, bespoke design, installation and maintenance for your cold room today. We provide medical laboratory cold rooms, pharmaceutical cold rooms, consultation services and more for healthcare companies around the world, including the NHS. Learn more or call us today on:
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