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Removes cardboard cartons from 20kg/40lb blocks of cheese at a rate of 16 blocks per minute.
Find Out MoreDe-palletises, de-cartons and re-palletises multiple carton and block formats.
Find Out MoreAutomates the carton cutting process, presenting cut cartons ready for removal by an operator.
Find Out MoreAutomates the removal of vacuum bags from 20kg/40lb blocks of cheese.
Find Out MoreAutomates the removal of vacuum bags from multiple cheese block types and sizes.
Find Out MoreCompact palletising and de-palletising system for smaller operations.
Find Out MoreAutomates the removal of cartons from pallets stacked in random patterns.
Find Out MoreDetects defects and foreign objects on the surface of dairy blocks.
Find Out MoreAutomates carton preparation for the meat, horticulture and food industries.
Find Out MoreAutomatically place and seal lids on cartons for the meat, seafood and horticulture industries.
Find Out MoreAutomatically compacts meat packed in corrugated cartons before lidding.
Find Out MoreA dynamic scale surpassing industry standards in design, durability and reliability.
Find Out MoreMilmeq SRT and MRT tunnels provide fast chilling or freezing of product with set retention times.
Find Out MoreA variation of the Milmeq SRT for dairy, providing fast chilling to preserve product quality.
Find Out MorePut cartons of product in contact with refrigerant filled plates to halve the freezing time.
Find Out MoreContact freezing provides a rapid freeze for naked product in smaller throughput operations.
Find Out MoreAutomated systems for chilling and freezing food products outside of a carton.
Find Out MoreIn the 1990s Milmeq pioneered the introduction of large scale plate freezing technology to the meat industry. We have also provided plate freezers to the dairy industry for freezing liquid cream. Today we produce the world’s largest horizontal plate freezers.
The MILMEQ® Plate Freezer features refrigerant-filled plates which make direct contact with cartons of product to provide a rapid, energy efficient freeze.
Energy consumption for plate freezing is is generally 25-30% lower than blast freezing.
The typical 48 hour freezing cycle of air blast freezers is reduced to 24 hours in plate freezers.
This rapid freeze improves the refrigeration index (a measure of shelf life and a regulatory requirement) while the cycle time reduction reduces stock inventory and time to market.
Another benefit of plate freezing is the output of cartons with uniformly flat surfaces, which deliver space efficiencies in the palletising, container loading and distribution operations.
Each plate freezer installation is custom designed to meet the client’s processing requirements. Consideration is given at the design stage to allow flexibility for future additions and upgrades as product throughput requirements grow.
Plate freezers are available in automatic, semi-automatic or manual configurations. They can be supplied with range of refrigerants including ammonia (NH3) and carbon dioxide (CO2).
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We continue to improve our plate freezer designs and one of our latest innovations is the single station opening (SSO) model. In this configuration, only one set of plates opens at a time to load or unload product, leaving the others closed to continue the freezing process.
The SSO model delivers up to 3.5 hours additional freezing time. Depending on production requirements, this can result in a greater product turnover or the plate evaporating temperature can be raised to gain a further reduction in energy consumption.
Generally, a requirement of the plate freezer system is for all cartons entering the freezer to be exactly the same size. A recent innovation has allowed multiple height cartons to be accommodated in one plate freezer.
A key component that is now a standard part of the plate freezer is a desiccant dehumidifier. A stream of very low dew point air provides a slight positive pressure to the plate freezer enclosure minimising frost build-up on equipment and sensor surfaces, and minimising the need for defrost.