| Searing system
adds flavour and visual appeal
Heat and Control’s Flame Searing System continuously sears the top surface of meat, poultry, seafood and vegetables producing a natural char-grilled look and taste.
 Multiple burners are adjustable in height and angle to provide a variety of surface finishes, from light speckling to overall browning. Direct flame contact also imparts distinctive and complimentary flavours to food products.
For added versatility, the Flame Searing System is available with a Rotary Brander to apply grill marks to one or both sides of foods. Available in sizes to fit most existing lines, the searing system remains in place as a transfer conveyor when searing or branding is not required.
For more information contact:
Heat and Control,
Email:info@heatandcontrol.com or visit www.heatandcontrol.com
Strategic partnership
Malaysian seafood processor opts for latest frying technology
 By using the DHF Series fryers from FMC FoodTech, a Malaysian seafood processor has realised a number of benefits, including controlled and even application of coating, uniform product temperature, quick start-up, good oil management and high-quality final products that exhibit a desirable light golden colour.
Golden Fresh, a Malaysia-based seafood processor, supplies premium seafood products such as prawns, fish, and squid in raw, cooked, crumbed, marinated and tempura forms for markets throughout Australia, Europe and the Middle East. The company has been a seafood supplier for a variety of high-profile events, including the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, Wimbledon and Australia’s Rugby World Cup.
To continue its success, Golden Fresh realised it would have to establish strategic relationships with business partners that both share its vision and understand its goals. One such valued partner is FMC FoodTech. The company’s relationship with FMC FoodTech has evolved from its first purchase of FMC FoodTech Frigoscandia freezers to now include FMC FoodTech Stein coating equipment and fryers as well.
Today, Golden Fresh is using two FMC FoodTech Stein coat and fry lines with DHF Series direct heat fryers as well as two FMC FoodTech Frigoscandia GYRoCOMPACT® self-stacking spiral freezers to maximise the efficiency of its coating, frying and freezing lines. By using the DHF Series fryers, Golden Fresh has realized a number of benefits, including controlled and even application of coating, uniform product temperature, quick startup, good oil management and high-quality final products that exhibit a desirable light golden colour.
When compared to its previous experiences with non-self-stacking belt freezers, Golden Fresh has realised significant advantages from its use of the GYRoCOMPACT self-stacking spiral freezers. Golden Fresh valued the easy cleaning, better hygiene, elimination of tension belting, increased user-friendliness and uninterrupted operation resulting from the self-stacking belt system of the GYRoCOMPACT.
“The quality, technology, performance and reliability we’ve seen from our FMC FoodTech equipment has encouraged us to buy more FMC equipment – and avoid companies that offer cheaper equipment that ends up costing more in the end,” remarked Lip Peng, facility director for Golden Fresh.
“Whether it’s for poultry or other products, much of today’s existing technology can be applied to seafood,” said Peng. “We’re now looking into a drum breader for our salt and pepper squid for a customer. We contacted FMC Food Tech to see if the company had any equipment that fit our needs, never expecting it would. But FMC FoodTech did have an ideal solution for us to incorporate, saving us a lot of hassle.”
Golden Fresh has also taken advantage of FMC FoodTech’s policy of inviting processors to view equipment at work in a facility as they are considering their purchase. This has given Golden Fresh the ability to study the equipment’s pros and cons prior to investing a large amount of money, a service not often available to equipment buyers.
“Our experience with FMC FoodTech could not be replicated with any other company. FMC FoodTech provides training to our people and allows us to send our people to their plants or learn and test the equipment with no obligation to purchase,” said Earn. “Our relationship has developed into more than a buyer-seller relationship. FMC FoodTech is a trusted and indispensable strategic partner to us.”
For more information visit: www.fmctechnologies.com
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