Joint effort

Doors and loading bays are critical elements of any cold storage facility and working together allows the two companies to offer a more complete solution, as demonstrated by a design for insulated loading bays, which was fitted at James Hall and Company's Spar distribution centre in Preston.

ISD insulated the dock leveller pits before Hörmann installed telescopic lip, HTL-2 dock levellers. The underside of the dock levellers were insulated, and double insulated DPU doors with a thermal 'U' value for each panel of only 0.3 W/m2K, were fitted. The doors close in front of the dock leveller and sit on the insulated plates that form the base of the dock leveller pit, maximising insulation.