JBT will showcase its latest spiral freezer during the upcoming International Trade Fair for Meat Industry (IFFA) show, which takes place from May 4-9 in Frankfurt, Germany. Visitors to the event will be able to view JBT’s most compact and hygienic freezer to date with the highest capacity of any comparable spiral freezer.
The Frigoscandia GYRoCOMPACT® 40 Spiral Freezer has evolved from one of JBT’s best selling products, the GYRoCOMPACT® Classic 400 Spiral Freezer, which has sold over 1,100 units throughout the world.
The latest version replaces the outdated wagon drive with JBT’s patented FRIGoDRIVE system. It offers a number of benefits, including 30% faster belt speeds, more advanced hygiene features, lower running and maintenance costs, and improved serviceability. The freezer also boasts an increase in capacity of between 15% and 20% on its predecessor. A key feature is the patented self-stacking FRIGoBELT NOVA conveyor, which forms a self-contained product freezing zone.
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“With the new GYRoCOMPACT® 40 Spiral Freezer, we’ve retained all the best technological features that we’ve developed over many years, and upgraded a best-selling design to meet this demand. This latest model has around 35% to 40% higher capacity than any comparable freezer of the same size,” explains Torbjörn Persson, JBT’s Director of Value Stream & Global Product Line, Spiral Freezers.
LVS QuickDry
A brand-new option for this year is the new patented and revolutionary LVS QuickDry for fast-drying of spiral freezers after cleaning, helping save hours of non-productive time typically lost attempting – not always successfully – to take moisture out of freezers after defrosting.
“When customers have freezers, the biggest problem – as with freezers at home – is defrosting and cleaning,” Persson says. “You can’t have a wet freezer after cleaning, so you have to dry them out and this can typically take several hours, especially with mid-sized and large spiral freezers where there’s a lot of steel. What this system does is that it shortens the drying sequence by up to one hour.”
With drying often taking up a third for total cleaning time when it comes to spiral freezers, having a dry freezer back in operation as quickly as possible is key to avoiding downtime. The LVS QuickDry is a subsystem connected to the LVS Refrigeration™ system that is required to operate the QuickDry function together with hot-gas availability from the refrigeration system.
Yield improvement
At IFFA 2019, JBT will also be highlighting the DSI® 800 Series Waterjet Portioning System, an automated solution for portioning and trimming that has proven to consistently improve product yield and increase productivity.
Built for high volume portions, the portioner functions as a precision machine for high accuracy intense cuts and a new generation scanner for effortless fat trimming – all-in-one.
Other products exhibited from JBT’s portfolio include the Formcook® 618 Contact Cooker for efficient sealing and searing of products and the XVision™ CCPX™ Pack™, an industry leading technology of X-ray Inspection Systems for contaminant detection of case ready, ready meals, and heat and eat products that is making its European debut.
JBT will be exhibiting at IFFA 2019 in Hall 8.0, Booths G06 and H06 at the Messe Frankfurt exhibition halls from May 4-9, 2019.