The surface area of flake-ice is quite large and covers the product properly. Also being thin, they do not damage the delicate fish skin. The temperatures of the flakers are around -4° to -5°C.
Because of these characteristics, flake ice is often used in food processing industries.
It plays an important part in the seafood industry which is one of major users of flake ice.
In Plate Ice Machines, plates of ice form on both sides of stainless steel plates. The system is easy to maintain and clean.
These plates of ice are hygienic, transparent and very hard, and can be stored for long periods of time.
Thickness can be adjusted up to 20mm.
Our plate ice machines are designed to work efficiently in different working conditions, some of the core applications of our Plate Ice Machine are:
Blast Freezers are used for Blast Chilling, which is a method of cooling food quickly to a low temperature that is relatively safe from bacterial growth. Bacteria multiply fastest between +8 °C (46 °F) and +68 °C (154 °F).
By reducing the temperature of cooked food from +70 °C (158 °F) to +3 °C (37 °F) or below within 90 minutes, the food is rendered safe for storage and later consumption.
IRPL specializes in design and installation of cold rooms & cold stores.
Our experts are available to guide you through each stage of the process from the initial consultation through to the design and then the final installation.
This ensures that the cold room you have specified meets your expectations and requirements.
We offer an initial consultation, with design advice, CAD drawings and a full quotation as part of the project package.
All our cold stores are constructed using panels with the latest fire resistant tech. Rooms up to 10m in height and any combination of width & depth can be built so whether you want to walk in or drive in, we can build a cold room to suit your needs.
A range of floor options including insulated floors with EPS slab & Puf slab for cold room, vapour barrier, Trimix concrete-finish larger rooms are all available.
A full range of door options are available and are manufactured to order which means we can offer any size and type of door you require.
As part of the design and installation package we can offer racking, lighting, strip curtains, humidity controls, cameras and many other additional items.
IQF (Individually Quick Frozen Method) foods are notable for the fact that each individual piece of food is frozen separately from all the others. For example, a bag of peas processed with IQF technology doesn't simply contain a solid block of frozen peas, but rather, each of the individually frozen peas is loose inside the bag. Following are the products built on IQF technology offered by IRL:
Industrial Refrigeration are pioneers in promoting IQF Fluid Bed Freezer systems to food industries. Fluidization method is used whereby solid particles float in an upward directed flow of air. If the air is at sub zero temperatures, say minus 35°C, you have a combined method of gentle conveyerisation and fast freezing.
Spiral freezers can freeze a large quantity of products in less space, especially products that need a long holding time, such as meats. Based on your site space, you can use single drum or double drum. Spiral freezers are widely used for all kinds of products. The structure of a single drum spiral freezer is compact and its capacity is 250kg/h-3000kg/h.
Individual Quick Freezing (IQF) Tunnel Freezers precisely freeze and chill a wide range of bulk products for the food processing industry. Capable of handling 0.5 to 25 tons per hour, tunnel freezers ensure the highest degree of IQF quality and supreme freezing flexibility.
Small product particle range from 3/16 to 2 inch diameter.
