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Single-slide door

April 5, 2016

Built for high-volume freezer environments, the Rytec Turbo-Slide single-slide, solid-panel freezer door features totally closed cell EVA foam panels.

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Providing supervised 24/7 remote monitoring of unattended commercial food freezers and refrigerators, the Sensaphone Sentinel Ethernet-based system constantly communicates a signal to the Sensaphone cloud to validate its online status.

Field Reports

Rolling in the dough

A new IQF freezer leads to gains in productivity for a frozen foods processor.

January 28, 2016

Since the mid-‘60s, family-owned, Lincoln Park, MI-based Pierino Frozen Foods, Inc. has built its reputation on quality.

Heat and Control fryer with external support module

Protein Processing

Solving meaty challenges

Protein processors can have trouble meeting production demands, if they’re working with out-of-date manufacturing spaces and equipment.

Wayne Labs

January 6, 2016

While many protein processors need to speed up their operations, there are many stumbling blocks thwarting their efforts.

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Freezer door

October 26, 2015

Used for high-volume freezer environments, the Rytec Turbo-Slide freezer door features closed-cell EVA foam panels that produce R-17 to R-40 values.

Tech Update: Refrigeration & Freezing

The shift to natural cooling systems

Big changes are in store as many synthetic refrigerants still widely in use could be phased out next year by the EPA.

Debra Schug

October 20, 2015

Global warming is heavily debated in some circles, but governing bodies worldwide have declared it a reality, regardless of personal belief. For the past 30 years, regulatory agencies around the world have been working to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, beginning with the 1987 Montreal Protocol, which was the first globally supported legislation to reduce ozone-depleting substances.

Ã¢â¬ËRolling WaveÃ¢â¬â¢ Freezer Speeds IQF Pasta Production

'Rolling Wave' Freezer Speeds IQF Pasta Production

October 1, 2015

Pierino Frozen Foods, Inc. is said to be one of the first prepared foods processors to harness new cryogenic ‘rolling-wave’ technology to individually quick-freeze (IQF) gourmet pasta out of its 30,000-square-foot, SQF-certified facility in Lincoln Park, Mich.The CRYOLINE CW IQF freezer, patented by Linde LLC, Murray Hill, N.J., uses a proprietary rolling-wave action to keep IQF products separate as they freeze.

Dry Processing

Chilling system

August 20, 2015

The Linde dry ingredient chilling system uses liquid carbon dioxide to cryogenically pre-chill ingredients while they are pneumatically conveyed to the mixer.

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Immersion spiral freezer

May 19, 2015

Capable of processing more than 20,000 lb./hr. of product, the hygienically designed Linde immersion spiral cryogenic freezer has a first stage that applies an instant crust freeze with liquid nitrogen; the cold gases from the first stage travel into the second stage to maximize the use of BTUs.