FDBusiness.com

Thailand’s premier ice cream firm is investing in bespoke processing equipment from UK-based freezing and chilling system manufacturer Starfrost. Minor Dairy produces a variety of premium ice cream products for food service outlets across the Thai and international markets.

The company was looking for a high capacity freezing system to increase ice cream production at its processing facility near to Bangkok. Minor Dairy required an efficient in-line freezing system capable of achieving the long retention time needed to harden large containers of ice cream.

Starfrost’s UK engineering team has custom designed a Double Drum Helix Spiral freezer for Minor Dairy with a processing capacity of 1,500 kg/hr. The Helix Spiral features a 620mm wide stainless steel mesh product conveyor belt and two rotating drums, each with 10 spiraling tiers.

The bespoke Double Drum Helix Spiral system is designed to process ice cream in 6kg plastic and paper containers, at a rate of 25 cans every six minutes. The product enters the freezer at a temperature of minus 4 degrees Celsius. Each container of ice cream is then hardened to minus 25 degrees Celsius.

The Minor Dairy system is the latest Starfrost freezer designed for a leading food manufacturer in Thailand. Starfrost has recently supplied freezing and chilling systems to Thai processors for tropical fruits and poultry. For further information visit www.starfrost.com.