GEA has more than 160 of its French fry freezer tunnels operating worldwide and conducted extensive research and development to improve the energy consumption in industrial freezing equipment.
DSI Freezing Solutions A/S, a Denmark-based market leader in plate freezing technology, has acquired Cryogenic Equipment and Services NV (CES) and Dantech Freezing Systems A/S (Dantech). Thereby it has created a new global player with the industry’s widest product range within industrial freezing, cooling, and heat treatment of food.
Snow formation inside the IQF tunnel freezer is directly linked to the process of product dehydration, a natural physical and chemical process that consists in water loss through the product’s cell walls when it makes contact with the cold air flow during freezing.
For Kayem Foods Inc., a meat processor based in Chelsea, Mass., Linde installed an impingement freezer in less than a week, and essentially doubled the line’s freezing capacity in the same space.
Oxford Frozen Foods, based in Nova Scotia, is a supplier of frozen wild blueberries, exporting to the United States, Japan, Great Britain, EU and Taiwan. That’s why it installed a continuous 24/7 IQF fluidization tunnel freezer from Advanced Equipment, Inc., Canada.