GEA Group, Germany, announced two new options for its A-Tec spiral freezer for the North American market to provide significant hygiene and practical benefits to food processing customers.
The acquisition expands Marlen’s ability to deliver custom, best-of-breed, continuous thermal and chilling food processing equipment in the meat and protein sector.
August 22, 2017
Marlen International, Inc., a Riverside, Mo.-based division of Duravant, Downers Grove, Ill., acquired Unitherm Food Systems, Inc.
James T Blakeman & Co., a European-based manufacturer of sausage and meat products, invested in a freezing equipment upgrade with its fourth Helix spiral system from IQF equipment specialist Starfrost, UK.
The new facility can cook up to 4 million pounds of barbacoa, 9.5 million tamales (or 792,000 dozen) and 1.7 million pounds of smoked brisket a year on just one shift.
August 17, 2016
Labatt Food Service, San Antonio, Texas, opened a new, 65,000-square-foot, $28 million meat cooking facility, producing barbacoa, brisket and tamales for fast food and restaurant customers.
Linde North America, Murray Hill, N.J., debuted the new immersion spiral freezer, proprietarily designed to deliver a consistent freeze with high efficiency for high-quality food production.
To meet new demand for a premium national brand of frozen pizza, Nation’s Pizza & Foods turned to the food team at Linde LLC, who performed annual audits on the compact cryogenic spiral freezers since first being installed more than 10 years ago.
Provisur Technologies, Inc., Mokena, Ill., entered into an agreement with Scanico A/S in which Scanico has become Provisur's global partner in commercial freezing technology.
Linde North America recommended an in-line cryogenic flour chilling system for Coles Quality Foods to achieve more consistent dough mixing performance.