High Speed Doors for Cold Rooms, Freezers
and Cold Storage

A high speed cold room door is an industrial door engineered to open and close in seconds, which reduces the time frame in which cold air can escape and warm, humid external air can enter a temperature controlled zone. This fast cycle time is vital in cold rooms because every second a door stays open allows thermal loss, condensation and ice build up on site floors, door tracks and valuable product.

EFAFLEX supplies purpose built cold room doors such as the EFA-SST TK‑100 and ISO‑60 spiral doors, achieving low U‑values with thermal frames and insulated laths. The result is lower energy consumption, improved hygiene, reduced maintenance and safer, uninterrupted traffic flow for forklifts, pallet trucks and staff who move between ambient and refrigerated zones.

A rapid roll door for cold storage is a fast opening roll up or spiral door designed to protect refrigerated and frozen sites from temperature loss, moisture ingress and airborne contamination. These doors are built to withstand thousands of opening and closing cycles every day without losing speed or sealing performance.

EFAFLEX's fabric doors, including the EFA‑SRT Premium and Eco models, open at speeds of up to 2.0 m/s, and our spiral doors open with speeds up to 2.5 m/s. Both of these ranges are built with insulation, hygienic surfaces and robust curtain materials to help cold storage facilities cut energy costs, maintain consistent temperatures and keep goods, staff and vehicles moving efficiently without compromising food safety or product quality.

An insulated high speed door for a cold room has rapid opening and closing speeds and strong thermal separation, which prevents heat transfer between refrigerated and ambient areas. This requirement is more demanding than standard high speed doors as insulation can add weight and bulk that can slow a door’s speed.

EFAFLEX’s door ranges incorporate insulated laths and thermally separated aluminium frames to achieve low U‑values while opening in seconds. This combination of features can reduce site energy bills by up to 50%, minimise condensation and ice formation and maintain safe, reliable operation across a wide temperature range (+30°C to ‑30°C). This makes many of our doors suitable for chillers and deep freeze rooms.

A cold storage rapid roller door is a high speed roller or spiral shutter built to withstand sustained low temperatures as well as opening and closing quickly to limit air exchange between zones. Traditional roller shutters are too slow and poorly sealed for cold chain facilities. These sites often need an airlock double door entrance to control temperature loss.

EFAFLEX's deep freeze range, including EFA‑SST TK‑100, was designed to replace a two door setup with a single, virtually hermetically sealed door. This makes it well suited to high traffic cold storage warehouses, distribution centres and food production sites where doors are used continuously.

Yes, EFAFLEX UK, based in Telford, designs, manufactures, installs and maintains high speed freezer room doors across the country. We draw on over 50 years of German engineering heritage from our parent company. Our deep freeze range is precisely engineered for continuous operation at temperatures down to ‑30°C, using insulated laths, thermally broken frames and integrated frost protection.

Our customers typically see energy savings of up to 50% compared with conventional freezer doors, with improved hygiene and reduced downtime. We can provide a free site survey and consultation, with a bespoke door specification for your facility, full professional installation and ongoing UK wide servicing, maintenance and emergency repairs.

EFAFLEX is a specialist cold room door supplier with over 50 years of German manufacturing heritage and a dedicated UK operation based in Telford that serves customers nationwide. We design, supply, install and maintain custom high speed doors for food, beverage, pharmaceutical, logistics and general cold storage sites.

Our credentials include CHAS, SSIP and Constructionline accreditation, with a membership to the Cold Chain Federation. This gives customers confidence in our health, safety and industry compliance standards. Our doors are manufactured for durability with some models rated for up to 500,000 operating cycles per year. We also provide aftercare, planned preventative maintenance and fast repairs to keep cold storage operations up and running.

An automatic cold room door opens and closes without any manual pushing, pulling or button use. They tend to be opened by remote controls, sensors, laser scanners or hands free wave to open sensors. This level of automation is valuable in cold storage, where staff can have their hands full with pallet trucks or stock, improve hygiene levels and reduce door open time for temperature control.

EFAFLEX can design and build automatic cold room doors by pairing our specialist range with our hands free opening methods. Doors will benefit from quick opening speeds and strong thermal insulation. Together these features reduce opening times, protect temperature sensitive stock, improve hygiene by removing unnecessary contact points and enable safer traffic flow for forklifts and personnel.

The best high speed freezer room door depends on your site's traffic volume, layout and temperature needs. In deep freeze applications, EFAFLEX's EFA‑SST TK‑100 is our top recommendation. It was developed as a single door solution purpose built for deep freeze use to replace space consuming two door setups.

It delivers a U‑value as low as 0.62 W/m²K, air permeability Class 5 and frost protection to prevent ice around moving parts. Despite these key features it still opens at speeds of up to 2.0 m/s and is rated for up to 200,000 operating cycles a year. The door is designed for high throughput use in busy freezer facilities such as food distribution warehouses, cold stores and production facilities.

A PVC high speed roll up door uses a flexible, tough PVC curtain that winds quickly on an overhead shaft, opening in seconds to save space and reduce wear. This is a lightweight, flexible design which makes the door more forgiving in the event of a knock, which is an important safety feature in busy cold storage settings.

EFAFLEX's roll up doors, including the EFA-STR Flex model, use a PVC curtain, reach opening speeds of up to 4 m/s and can be used up to 500,000 operating cycles each year. Optional curtain specifications allow the door to be customised to hygiene, safety or regulatory requirements for stringent food production or pharmaceutical sectors.

A self repairing high speed freezer door is designed for situations where a curtain is knocked out of its guide rails. For example, a door knocked off its track by a forklift or pallet truck, the door automatically inserts itself back into position the next time the door cycles. This capability is valuable in busy cold rooms and freezer entrances, where frequent vehicle traffic increases the risk of accidental impact.

EFAFLEX's roll-up doors, such as the EFA‑SRT Soft Touch model, has a self repairing curtain with a flexible curtain that absorbs minor knocks safely. Opening speeds of up to 2.0 m/s mean there is minimal temperature loss during use, which makes these doors a practical, low maintenance choice for freezer and cold storage entrances.

A dual curtain freezer door uses two separate layers of curtain material with an insulating air gap between them. This creates an extra thermal barrier that helps to reduce temperature fluctuation, condensation and ice formation in frozen environments.

Our spiral door range achieves comparable or superior thermal performance using one door which has thermally separated frames and insulated laths instead of a dual curtain construction. Our range reaches U‑values as low as 1.4 W/m²K. If you are comparing freezer door options for your site, speak to our team. We will assess your exact temperature, traffic and space requirements and recommend the most energy efficient configuration.