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Refrigeration and Temperature
Controlled Enclosures
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Refrigeration and Temperature
Controlled Enclosures
Many pharmaceuticals, reagents and samples must be stored at controlled temperatures to maintain their integrity.
MSC offers installation, service and maintenance, temperature mapping and temperature calibration for laboratories. We support various types of equipment, including reach-in fridges and freezers, 4°C to -30°C cold room chambers, ultra-low (ULT) (-40°C to -80°C) freezers, -150°C freezers, walk-in cold rooms, walk-in freezer rooms, walk-in microbiological incubators and cooling incubators, temperature and humidity controlled environmental rate chambers and air conditioning.
OUR SERVICES
Our Team
MSC’s leading-edge refrigeration engineers hold a combined 75+ years’ experience. Supported by our in-house apprenticeship programme, MSC’s expert team is collaborative with a diverse, technical skillset and strong working ethic.
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How MSC Ensures Compliance
Holding ISO 17025 accreditation for temperature calibration since 2010, we have a long history of servicing temperature-controlled equipment. Any controlled temperature chamber we supply can be temperature mapped by our experienced team according to your requirements.
This ensures that all areas of your cold room, and by extension all samples/products stored in it, are at a uniform temperature which can be confirmed and verified against calibrated temperature probes.
MSC also offers full Installation/Operational Qualification (IQOQ) on our controlled rate chambers.
Our service team also provides a range of service contracts to suit your individual needs.
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Emergency Repairs and Service Calls
We prioritise and handle emergency repairs and callouts promptly to minimise disruption to customer operations and protect temperature-sensitive or critical assets. Temporary containment measures, such as transferring products to backup equipment, are implemented where necessary to maintain product integrity. Following the repair, system functionality is verified, and relevant documentation (e.g., service report, revalidation, or temperature mapping) is completed. Corrective or preventive actions are implemented as required to prevent recurrence.
Cold Rooms
Cold Rooms
Why a Cold Room?
A cold room can solve these problems:
- Optimise space – they can be designed to fit your existing space, and there is a significantly reduced requirement for dead space inside the room
- More energy efficient – reducing the overall number of refrigeration units equals a significant energy saving
- Reduced heat emission – refrigeration units can be placed in roof spaces or outside, thus reducing strain on HVAC systems
- Validation requirements – Consolidation of multiple refrigeration units into one reduces the equipment and labour costs associated with monitoring and mapping
How does the MSC Cold Room process work?
Our Consultative Sales Approach
- MSC Sales and Engineering team visits your site to discuss current storage requirements.
- We carry out a complete free-of-charge site survey to measure the location.
- We provide you with a Quotation and Installation Plan.
- We carry out cold room installation according to the Installation Plan, with IQOQ and temperature mapping as required.
- We put after-sales support and Service Contracts in place
MSC Cold Room Features
Cold rooms can be constructed indoors or outdoors. They can be standalone or we can convert an existing room into a cold room. Our cold rooms are fully-customisable in a wide variety of ways.
This flexibility includes:
- Wide range of sizes
- Temperatures from -30°C to 5°C
- Back-up and redundant refrigeration systems
- Integrated audio-visual alarms, including trapped person alarms
- Modular shelving and storage systems
- Customised control panels
- Remote monitoring
- High quality, food-grade panels with low U-value insulation
- Non-slip floors
We can also add a second refrigeration system to provide a fully redundant system for very precious samples or very valuable products. If one refrigeration system fails, the second one can keep your entire chamber at the correct temperature until a repair is arranged.
Ultra-low Temperature (-40°c To -80°c) Chambers
Ultra-low Temperature (-40°c To -80°c) Chambers
Modern biopharmaceuticals, some vaccines, nucleic acid samples and microbiological cell stocks all require storage at ultra-low temperatures from -40°C to -80°C.
A -80°C freezer farm is a common feature in modern hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and universities. These rooms, full of individual units, have a number of disadvantages:
- Large space requirement – units need to be spaced apart from each other and from walls or other equipment, meaning your freezer farm contains mostly empty space.
- Large energy requirement – individual units require individual power supplies, resulting in a higher electricity requirement.
- Heat emission – Refrigeration units emit large quantities of heat to the atmosphere. In temperature-controlled buildings, this puts additional strain and burden on HVAC systems, further increasing maintenance and electricity costs.
- Validation requirements – in regulated sectors, refrigeration units need to be continually temperature monitored and temperature mapped on a regular basis. Multiple units necessitate multiple monitors and multiple rounds of mapping, increasing equipment and labour costs.
A bulk ultra-low temperature solution can have these benefits:
- Optimise space – cold rooms can be designed to fit the space you have, and there is a significantly reduced requirement for dead space inside the room.
- More energy efficient – reducing the overall number of refrigeration units equals a significant energy saving.
- Reduced heat emission – refrigeration units can be placed in roof spaces or outside, reducing strain on HVAC systems. Water-cooled refrigeration systems are also an option, which can reduce the quantity of heat emitted to the atmosphere.
- Validation requirements – consolidation of multiple refrigeration units into one reduces the equipment and labour costs associated with monitoring and mapping.
Unlike at higher temperatures, walk-in units at these very low temperatures are often a safety concern. MSC can offer a range of very large reach in ultra-low chambers with the option for -20°C or 4°C ante-chambers so that sample temperature variations can be minimised while also providing a safer environment for operators. Bulk ultra-low temperature storage can use up to 30% less energy than equivalent volume storage.
Microbiological Incubators
Microbiological Incubators
Traditional Pasteurian microbiological techniques are one of the most commonly-performed techniques in Irish laboratories. The average microbiology laboratory produces large numbers of plates which must be incubated. These incubators are often located together and take up a lot of valuable laboratory space, including a requirement for large amounts of unused space.
These traditional incubators have the following disadvantages:
- Large space requirement – units need to be spaced apart from each other and from walls or other equipment, meaning the incubator room is mostly empty space
- Large energy requirement – individual units require individual power supplies, resulting in a higher electricity requirement
- Heat emission – Incubators emit large quantities of heat to the atmosphere. In temperature-controlled buildings, this puts additional strain and burden on HVAC systems, further increasing maintenance and electricity costs
- Validation requirements – in regulated sectors, incubators need to be continually temperature monitored and temperature mapped on a regular basis. Multiple units necessitate multiple monitors and multiple rounds of mapping, increasing equipment and labour costs
MSC’s bulk, walk-in incubator solutions can offer these advantages:
- Optimise space – walk-in incubators can be designed to fit the space you have and there is significantly reduced requirement for dead-space inside the room
- More energy efficient – consolidation of units results in energy savings
- Reduced heat emission – Consolidation of heating units results in lowered heat emission to the room
- Validation requirements – Consolidation of multiple units into one reduces the equipment and labour costs associated with monitoring and mapping
Average laboratory with
90mm plate capacity per incubator = ~450 plates
Floor space required for 8 incubators =
Equivalent space of walk-in incubator =
Temperature And Humidity Controlled Chambers
Temperature And Humidity Controlled Chambers
In many sectors, reliable, long-term control of temperature and humidity is vital. This includes applications for stability and product shelf-life studies, plant growth, cell culture and storage of sensitive materials.
MSC can offer customised chambers with a wide array of features including:
- Custom sizing
- Customisable temperature, humidity and lighting features
- Customisable cycles for temperature, humidity and lighting
- High-end controllers with audit trail and report exporting functions