Increasing capacity and throughput while improving food safety are key considerations when it comes to replacing industrial freezers, but companies can face expensive rebuilds to accommodate new machines. Recognizing space is often at a premium, JBT’s new Frigoscandia GYRoCOMPACT® 70 Spiral Freezer has been developed to optimize capacity, as well as enhancing food safety and throughput. In fact, the GYRoCOMPACT 70 is more compact than any of its predecessors, yet offers 20% more capacity and a belt width of 700mm.
Torbjörn Persson, JBT’s Director of Value Stream & Global Product Line for Spiral Freezers, says the new GYRoCOMPACT 70 marks a significant advancement on previous versions, with the emphasis very much on boosting food safety, throughput, capacity and sustainability. “The GYRoCOMPACT 70 still has the inherent self-stacking capabilities but we have made it more hygienic and easier to clean,” says Persson. “One big change is that all of the profiles on the machine are now open, so you are able to clean all of the parts inside.”
Throughput has been improved, he continues, by speeding up the defrosting process through additional features including a new ventilation hatch and LVS QuickDry technology. The GYRoCOMPACT 70 further reduces water and energy consumption, improving sustainability in the process, by operating longer between defrosts and limiting the time it takes to carry out a defrost, which would typically consume a great deal of both energy and water.
Improved capacity is also a key advancement. Despite the freezer’s compactness, says Persson, JBT has been able to increase capacity by getting more belt into the GYRoCOMPACT 70, while the level of the freezer has also been lowered to boost interior space. “We are able to get more products into a single unit, although we still allow for products that are 50 mm in height,” he explains. “Many companies have existing facilities that the freezer needs to fit into, so size is very important. This machine can fit into the same space as an old machine, but with the advantage that it includes more capacity.”
The GYRoCOMPACT 70 has a wide range of freezing applications, covering everything from bakery to poultry and pizza, and is available across Europe and Asia.
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