Cooling tunnel

Description

Based on our many years of practical experience, the FoodeQ cooling tunnel has been designed in line with the strictest standards for hygienic design. The robust design criteria and flexibly controllable process components ensure optimal efficiency and low operating costs.

The FoodeQ cooling tunnel is used, among other things, for cooling (blanched) potato products. This unique FoodeQ cooling solution is a crucial link in the chain, because it ensures that the product is effectively cooled by means of cold air to the exact desired storage temperature. In this way the product is preserved, as unwanted microbiological activity is significantly reduced. The faster the product is cooled (back down), the better, because this extends the shelf life of the product, and that is a gain.

To achieve the ultimate shelf life of fresh product, FoodeQ has developed a steaming-drying-cooling system without contaminating and less hygienic transitions. The product is, as it were, treated entirely in a high-care zone before it is packed. Since a good infeed is important for optimal operation of the cooling/freezing tunnel with minimal energy consumption, we also take care of the upstream and downstream process by means of vibratory technology, traditionally our specialism.

• Maximum hygiene
• Suitable for many products
• Fully controllable process
• Longer product shelf life
• Extremely easy to maintain
• Easy to clean thanks to a sophisticated CIP installation (Cleaning In Place)
• Longer shelf life thanks to a possible combination with a unique dryer concept
• Product- and project-specific design for tailor-made solutions
• Optimal balance in energy consumption