Our method of plate freezing offers several benefits, making it a great choice for preserving the quality and safety of food products. Not only is it incredibly fast, but it also ensures that your food remains fresh and safe to consume. Additionally, plate freezing is highly sustainable, making it an environmentally friendly option.
Numerous tests have demonstrated the effectiveness of plate freezing across a wide range of products. Whether you’re working with fish, meat, poultry, fruits, vegetables, liquids, fluids, pet food, or ready meals, switching to plate freezing will have a noticeable impact on your bottom line and operational savings. Moreover, by adopting plate freezing technology, you can significantly reduce your environmental footprint, as it is up to 30% more energy efficient than traditional air blast freezers.
Our horizontal plate freezers are designed based on direct and double contact freezing techniques. This ensures rapid freezing without compromising the quality and yield of your products.
Each of our horizontal freezers is custom-designed to accommodate your production site’s space constraints and your preferred batch weight or size. We prioritize low power consumption, making our freezers energy efficient. Additionally, our freezers are easy to clean and maintain, preventing any damage to product packaging. Most importantly, we ensure that our freezers preserve the high quality of your food while keeping costs to a minimum.
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Stainless Steel Framework
All our horizontal plate freezers feature Stainless Steel frames and fittings as standard – this ensures long term reliability, maximum hygiene friendliness and easy wash downs.
Stainless Steel Hydraulic Cylinders
304L Stainless Steel Cylinders, and F51 Duplex Rods mean no rod corrosion even in harsh chemical & marine environments
High Visibility Blue Plastics
All plastics are approved for food contact, and are made from high visibility UHMW Polyethylene & Acetal
Individual plates run on Stainless guides with 4 direction wear pads per plate for smooth running on land or at sea.
Hoses
Special Stainless Steel hose connections into the plate ensure a virtually leak free service life.
The hose features a male adaptor into the plate (to allow for correct setting of the hose angle), and uses a circumferential O-ring which does not rely on compression to seal; unlike tapered thread or gasket designs.
Stronger Hydraulics
“Right way up” Hydraulic Cylinders are calculated to ensure optimal downforce on the product and allow more force to “break” the ice when opening when compared to an upside down solution.
Twin Stainless Steel cylinders with a flow divider allow for smooth and even lifting every time
High Capacity Plates
Made out of sea water resistant Aluminium, approved for human food contact – the Jackstone plates use a strong, heavy wall 25mm extrusion for increased life & high freezing capacity
High Pressure HPF
The High Product Pressure model is designed primarily for fish fillet production, and other products where a precise block weight & dimension must be formed with no air gaps inside the block
Typically the pressure on the product during freezing is about 0.2 bar, whilst our high pressure models can go from 0.4-0.7 bar, although higher can be done on request.
We use larger hydraulic cylinders to provide this pressure, and keep hydraulic internal pressure down to a minimum for safety.
A reinforced Stainless Steel framework is used, featuring 200mm high box sections for maximum stiffness – this stops the blocks in the middle from crowning
Insulated Cabinets
Available in both food safe white finish, as well as stainless steel, with options for either roller curtains or double doors front and back available.
As an optional extra, our horizontal plate freezers can be supplied with a variety of insulated cabinets, allowing greater protection for operators from the cold plates, and the ability to seal off the freezer for hygiene reasons.
- 80mm Thick Insulation
- Stainless Steel Base Frame
- Stainless Steel Trim & Flashing
- Curtain located inside the freezer on curtain models
