Abattoir Foodmet

In 2015, a new market hall opened in the Brussels’ Abattoir: Foodmet, a covered market hall where consumers buy meat, fish, poultry, vegetables, fruit, olives, bread, cheeses, spices… in over 50 booths. It’s the only and biggest covered food market in Belgium with a modern architecture.

It’s the place to be in Belgium to find all kinds of multicultural foods from around the world under one roof. Each weekend, more than 100,000 visitors shop at Foodmet’s. In 2018, the next phase of Foodmet will be launched: a new spectacular project of 4,000 m² will open to visitors, of which 2,000 m² consist of greenhouses with heat recovery equipment (generated from cooling installations), whilst 500 m² will be dedicated to aquaculture. There, fish will be farmed, and it will be connected to a much bigger area for hydroculture (microgreens, small fruits and vegetables). The combination of both is called aquaponics. In addition, visitors will get access to the roof garden, a 400 m² restaurant and adjacent rooftop bar.

Abattoir called on the technical expertise and qualitative products of isomasters for the production of the refrigerated areas of the whole Foodmet project.

Not less than 7,800 m² of industrial sandwich panels were used for the assembly of the whole project. The IND panels have an insulated PIR core corresponding to a reaction to fire of B-s1,d0. The exterior walls of the refrigerated rooms have a thickness of 120mm, are lightly ribbed and varnished with a HDP 35 µm RAL 7016 coating. Also, the ceiling panels have been executed with a thickness of 120 mm, so all refrigerated rooms as a whole are perfectly insulated. The interior walls and ceiling walls are completely flat for hygienic reasons and equipped with the CLEANsafe 55-coating in RAL 9010, which is 100% appropriate for intensive use in the food industry and for controlled environments.

The IND panels are executed in the 19 stalls of the market, where the walls and ceilings are executed with the Linea Profile (micro-ribbed) in RAL 9005 (black), combined with RAL 7035 (light grey) 

In total, the following products were installed:

• 24 IPE industrial sliding doors for refrigerated rooms with stainless steel C-frame
• 19 ZPE heavy sliding doors for refrigerated rooms with ALU-N frame
• ​15 OFE hinged doors for refrigerated rooms with ALU-N frame
• 5 LFE small reach in doors for accessing the ceiling zones
• 20 PEE-PED polyethylene swing doors with stainless steel C-frame
• 8 BDE-BDD insulated hinged service doors with ALU-N frame
• 2 BSE sliding service doors
• 16 KRE windows in PVC with super insulated glazing and anti-splinter foil
• 6 KDE doors in PVC with ½ viewing hole
• 160 door bar security posts in stainless steel, and
• 25 stainless steel door bar security bands.