The use of an air curtain in any operating warehouse offers many benefits from air quality control to an increase in productivity.

Choosing an air curtain for your warehouse from Air Door Distributors will create a seal of air that will block contaminants and insects from entering your workspace.

While all businesses are different in services and challenges, many businesses will find benefits in the same places and adding an air curtain to your warehouse is a smart way to gain control over various aspects of your business no matter what your business may be. Warehouses are places of hard work and long days with employees often working long shifts in all season. It is important to regulate and control as much of the environment as possible, especially when working with products that require extra precautions like food or pharmaceuticals.

What is an air curtain?

An air door, or often referred to as an air curtain, is a device most often hung above doorways that produces a controlled, engineered stream of air across an opening to create a seal thus blocking out dust, contaminants, and insects. Air curtains also have the ability to lock in cool air and keep out hot air and vice versa. Air curtains are a staple for most commercial businesses looking to protect the inside environment, products and employees from outside contaminants, insects and in general, for good business practice.

Benefits of adding an air curtain

The benefits to adding an air curtain are great! The option to create a barrier of sorts between the outside and inside of your warehouse offers many advances in savings, environmental control and increase of productivity.

Energy Savings

One of the greatest benefits to adding an air curtain to any business, including over the large bay doors of warehouse facilities, is the device’s ability to be an energy saver for warehouse operators. When warehouse workers are loading and unloading materials, a great deal of the environment is let inside. If the summer months have you working in an air-conditioned environment, the heat entering is inevitable. However, if you are working in a warehouse in the winter months, adding a heated air curtain to your warehouse doors will help keep the heat inside and cold outside, resulting in a great deal of energy savings.

Increase Employee Moral

Winter work in a warehouse can leave employees in a less-than-desirable working environment. When the temperatures drop to freezing, productivity is also known to take a dip. Creating a comfortable working environment for employees can increase productivity and moral. Heated air curtains placed at warehouse doors will work to keep the cold air outside and the warm air outside. Employees are less likely to miss work when they feel valued. Employees are unlikely to remain in the heat during an entire warehouse shift and will inevitably be subject to constant temperature change which can lead to both unwanted health and mood shifts. Ensuring your employees, a comfortable work environment will increase moral

Climate Control

If you are running a warehouse where climate control is essential, an air curtain is a simple solution that will help prevent and eliminate air temperature from drastically fluctuating. For warehouses operating in warmer climates but needing cooler temperatures for certain products, an air curtain is a necessity to help keep the inside air cool without letting in the humid or hot air from outside.

Allows Easy Access for Employees

Warehouse workers often spend large parts of their day loading and unloading trucks into the warehouse. We all know that time is money and time is greatly wasted when employees are fussing over details that are both seemingly insignificant yet necessary, like worrying about the doors during loading and unloading periods. Adding an air curtain to your warehouse will allow employees to move throughout their workspace with ease by allowing doors to be left open without damaging the indoor air quality. This will increase both productivity and safety.

Insect and Debris Control

Warehouses operate under many umbrellas. From meat packing to pharmaceuticals, much of what is handled inside warehouses needs to be treated with care. Adding a simple air door can to warehouse doors will work to keep insects and debris from entering the warehouse in the first place. For companies packaging certain products like medication, there are many rules and regulations to keep them in compliance and to be sure that products are packaged without dust, debris and, obviously, insect-free. Air curtains are often used for energy savings but with a slightly more powerful curtain that creates an engineered force of air strong enough to keep outside dirt and debris as well as insects out of any warehouse or packaging facility.

Are you ready to improve air quality and energy savings in your warehouse? The experts at Air Door Distributors are waiting to assist you in determining the appropriate air curtain for your warehouse.

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