Commercial Air Curtains

A commercial air curtain is an air curtain that is specially designed for commercial & public buildings, such as retail shops, restaurants, hospitals,transportaton facilities, schools.

What Is An Commercial Air Curtain ?

Commercial air curtains are specially designed for commercial buildings and public facilities for temperature control in separate areas, prevention of flying bugs from outdoors, and reduce energy loss. Air curtains for commercial are the most popular units and cover many major commercial industries, such as retail shops, restaurants, hospitals, schools, terminals, and transportation facilities.

Why Use Commercial Air Curtains In A Building

Commercial air curtain is one of the most popular types in the market and widely applied in many commercial buildings. There are some major reasons as follows.

High Foot Traffic

There is higher foot traffic in commercial industries than in any other place. Commercial doors are heavy and frequently open and close during open hours, bringing a challenge to commercial operators on comfortable indoor temperatures while ensuring traffic efficiency through doors and making people more convenient as they come and go.

Wide & High Doors/Entrances

Many commercial industries have relatively large openings, of which minimal sizes are 90cm/36 inches wide & 80 inches high, many others are bigger, and some entrances could reach big wide and 5.5 meters tall. So It’s a difficult task for managers in some commercial industries to keep stable conditioned indoor temperatures while keeping doors open for people to pass through.

Long Opening Hours

Most commercial industries have long opening hours than other industries, some even work for 24 hours consistently, and daily energy spending on HVAC systems can reach amazingly high levels.

Customer Orientation

All commercial operators focus on improving customer satisfaction by creating comfortable & convenient indoor experiences for their customers, patients, students, and employees from their first steps into the doors, which do matter for a successful business, efficient studying, and working.

Strict Control On Operation Cost

One of the core tasks for managers in commercial industries is to run their daily operations at a low cost. And daily operation of commercial HVAC systems is a high energy spending. How to improve energy efficiency is a core part of low operation costs.

Focus On Product Safety & Clean Sanitation Environment

Product safety can’t be more important for shop owners to keep freezer rooms/cold rooms with perfect temperatures and humidity, maintain a healthy indoor environment and eliminate contamination threats from outdoors.

Benefits Of Commercial Air Curtains

Air curtains bring multiple benefits for commercial applications, the following are some examples:

Improve Customer Satisfaction

Air curtains for commercial uses improve customer satisfaction by keeping comfortable indoor temperatures and creating convenient experiences for customers, passengers, patients, and staff as they pass through the entrances.

Improve Working Efficiency

Air doors for commercial help improve employee working efficiency and reduce their complaints by keeping a comfortable & safe working indoor environment and creating very convenient & efficient entrances for them to pass through or deliver products when doors are widely open.

Protect Products & Clean Indoor Sanitation

Commercial air curtains protect products in stable conditioned temperatures and humidity. Besides it create a clean sanitation environment by refusing outdoor flying insects, odors, dust, and fumes. Keeping a clean sanitation environment is especially important for premises with high traffic. For example, restaurants, where viruses and bacteria spread fast and bring health concerns for people.

Reduce Operation Costs

Reduce daily operation costs by saving energy from commercial HVAC systems with long hours of operation, such as air conditioners, central heating systems, refrigeration systems, air coolers, freezers, etc.

Increase Sales Revenue

By using air doors, commercial shop operators can increase their sales revenue by attracting more customers when doors always stay open. A wide open door reveals a welcoming attitude toward customers, who are more willing to enter in, even though they do not have any shopping schedule before.

Build Smart Doors System

Door air curtains also work well for commercial automatic doors. All we need to do is connect our units with air curtain door switches/ sensors. Then, air curtains can work automatically according to doors open and close. Air curtains with door switches can use for multiple different entrances, including automatic doors, sliding doors, high-speed doors, scissor gates, roller-up doors, glass doors, etc. Call us now for more information.

Featured Models for Commercial Use

Airtechz is specialized in manufacturing air curtains for commercial uses for many years and provides a wide range of commercial air curtains, following are some featured products:

Applications of Commercial Air Curtains

Air curtains are widely applied in many commercial places to improve indoor environment & energy efficiency, including following industries:

Where To Install

Commercial air curtains apply in multiple openings of commercial buildings for different purposes. Some door entrances are as follows:

Main Entrances & Reception Doors

Commercial air curtains above main entrances or reception doors helps to keep up comfortable indoors environment while creating wide open doorways without obstruction, which lead to the imporvement of customers experience and convenience.

Kitchen Entrances & Service Entrances

Air curtains above commercial kitchen doors helps to improve sanitation conditions by protecting inside food process areas from outside flying insects, flies. What’s more, air curtains over kitchen doors also improve smoke control effectiveness by working together with smoke exhaust system. And they isolate smoke inside the kitchen and helps to create clean comfortable service areas for customers.

Storage Doors

Commerical air curtains applied over storage doors helps to reduce energy costs and keep up stable inside temperatures while doors are open as staff pass through.

Pass-through Windows

Commercial air curtains applied above pass-thru windows improve service and delivery efficiency while protect indoors comfortable and clean environment from outdoors heat, fumes, dusts, mosquitos and flies.

How To Select An Commercial Air Curtain?

Have no idea about selecting air curtains for your shops? There are four tips to help you work out on air curtains selections as follows:

Firstly, make clear your purpose for using air curtains. Temperature control or insect control? As to temperature control, select air door units with standard performance. Regarding insect control, air curtain units with high air speed/velocity is necessary.
Secondly, ensure there is enough above-door space for installation before purchase. There is limited space above doors in some commercial buildings. It’s necessary to measure door sizes for air curtain mounting with measure tape.
Thirdly, check door height and width for your commercial buildings by a simple measure tap.
Finally, select air curtains with designs & colors that can match your indoor decoration styles. Air curtains with beautiful designs help create a pleasant and beautiful indoor atmosphere. The indoor aesthetic decoration is an essential part of commercial industries as it directly impresses customers and reveals products/brands’ level. A nicely designed indoor decoration can affect customers’ purchase decisions and increase sales.

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