Meat&Poultry - December 2012 - 7

Innovative Freezing Solutions for Today’s Market
In recent years, the general consumer proﬁle has altered the food processing industry landscape signiﬁcantly. Consumers today demand foods that are excellent in all aspects – appearance, texture, taste, nutritional values – off the shelf. This coupled with rapid modernization, has caused the food processing industry to continuously increase their output in order to meet the ever-increasing and ever-demanding requirements of the consumer market. Marel’s line of innovative freezing solutions ensures the taste, texture and nutritional value of your product remains at the highest standards which are demanded by today’s consumer. Marel provides a wide variety of freezing solutions using the latest advancements in freezing technology in order to meet the food processing industry’s demands for higher quality end-products. Today, Marel offers freezers which range from upwards/downwards running Spiral Freezers to Superﬂow Easyclean Tunnel Freezers with impingement technology. Our continuous innovation in freezing technology has enabled us to constantly develop new space-saving, energy efﬁcient and more importantly, costeffective freezing concepts which allows the food processors to focus on what matters the most – maximizing proﬁt potential. In order to help food processors further maximize their investments, we have also incorporated our adjustable Perforated Plates into our patented freezer design, enabling customers to freeze multiple different products using the superior high velocity Superﬂow® without incurring additional costs. The rapid horizontal airﬂow - Arcticﬂow® is another one of our innovations in freezing concepts. In this conﬁguration, the end-product is led past high horizontal airﬂow which directs the air over and under the products and continuously through the evaporators. The low temperature associated with Arcticﬂow® ensures a rapid and homogenous freezing resulting in a ﬁne quality end-product. With Marel’s range of freezers, we make it easier for the food processors to decide which of the conﬁgurations is more suitable for their production environment. With the high velocity vertical Superﬂow®, food processors will beneﬁt from the fastest freezing time and lower power consumption compared to other impingement freezers. With the rapid horizontal airﬂow - Arcticﬂow®, food processors will beneﬁt from a fast freezing time and the lowest power consumption. In addition, should the food processor require all the beneﬁts, Marel offers the Superﬂow® Easyclean Tunnel Freezer. With a simple change in air plates, this freezer is easily adaptable for both high speed vertical airﬂow, Superﬂow®, and a conventional high speed horizontal airﬂow, Arcticﬂow®! This will provide food processors greater ﬂexibility in minimizing the cost of freezing. With today’s increasing demand for higher quality end-products, further growth of the industry is largely dependent to the ability of food processors to introduce better quality, not only to the end-products, but also the process techniques involved in production while keeping costs down. Food processors can be assured that Marel constantly introduces more innovations to help achieve just that. Reduced power consumption along with lower water costs and labor can be achieved by using customized component designs on our freezers, capable of running for longer periods without the need to defrost. This directly translates to lower cost of freezing with maximum output, helping the food processors gain an edge in today’s increasingly competitive market. If you have any questions about your freezing and conditioning processes, please contact a Marel Sales Representative at 1-888-888-9107. Or visit us online at marel.com/usa or else email us at info.us@marel.com.

One of the many innovations which we have made over the years includes the impingement freezer which we have incorporated into our design. Our impingement freezer utilizes high velocity vertical airﬂow - Superﬂow®, of up to 35 meters per second (m/s) at the air nozzle in order to freeze the end product in a uniform manner, in the fastest possible time, ensuring color, ﬂavor and nutrients are locked in with minimal drip loss. By comparison, a conventional tunnel freezer provides 8 – 12 meters per second over the end-product. In fact, by utilizing high velocity impingement airﬂow in our freezers, we are able to match the speed and capacity of a cryogenic freezing system, without the additional operational costs of purchasing cryogenic gases. The advantages of having a shorter freezing time and minimal drip loss results in a larger producing capacity and maximum proﬁts with minimum wastage for the food producers.
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