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a tight, insulated barrier. They can be customized to fit
around doors and cutouts as well as any other protrusion
into the space.
According to Randall Manufacturing,
the InsulWall system installed quickly.
It was hung from the ceiling joists and
worked around ventilation systems. The
panels easily framed out a series of roll-up
doors. Within two weeks, the renovated
warehouse space was operational, with relatively little interruption to business.
Installing Insul Wall in the Keurig part of
the warehouse gave the space new utility.
The new clean room occupies 20,000 of the
total 209,000 square feet. The InsulWall
system turned the dusty, hot, and humid
space into a clean and cool environment.
The temperature of the space changed
dramatically after the installation.
According to Ward, “It can be a balmy
95 degrees outside and 80 degrees in the warehouse. With
InsulWall and the new HVAC system, the clean room
is kept at a constant 73 degrees.” This improvement has
resulted in a more comfortable working environment for
employees, and there is less concern about the temperature
of the machinery.
On top of that, the curtain-wall system has made cleaning a simple matter. According to Ward,
cleaning the InsulWall itself is easy and
takes very little time. “We [recently] went
through a whole cleaning process; we just
had to use a dust mop to wipe down the
panels,” he says.
Noise control was another employ-ee-pleasing benefit of the new wall system.
“We didn’t realize it would actually absorb
sound, [and] we now have a quieter environment,” Ward reports.
The transformation of the Keurig packaging space was part of a $4 million remodel of the entire warehouse that will improve
the current space and allow for expansion.
A movable soft-wall solution “made perfect
sense” in light of the company’s plans to
add more machines to the packaging area, Ward says. M.
Block & Sons is so satisfied with the new setup that it plans
to use more Insul Wall to expand the clean room as its business grows.
