Food Processing
For Industrial Sector applications, Scotsman ice machines are highly regarded thanks to quality craftsmanship and components, ease of installation, reliability, and a world-wide after sales service ready to support customers in the remotest of locations.
Scotsman offers a specific ice shape for each precise requirement: Ice Flakes, Super-flakes, Nuggets, Scale Ice and even Gourmet Ice cubes, with a variety of machine configurations and capacities, storage and transport solutions.
Scotsman can also offer innovative solutions, gained through its experience of supplying ice in specialised industrial applications.
Ice is vital to a wide range of industrial manufacturing processes, including Bakeries, Fish Processing – both onboard and onshore, Vegetable Growing and Processing, Pasta Production, Meat and Poultry Processing, Hides & Skin Preparation, Chemical Industries - to control exothermic reactions, Dye Manufacturing and Silk Processing, Laboratories, Healthcare and Sports Injury Therapy.
The food sector represents one of the UK’s major users of high volumes of, chip, flake or scale ice.
Scotsman is renowned worldwide for its engineering innovation and efficiency and reducing energy and water consumption levels is a key element of their strategy for product development in the next decade. Scotsman uses state-of-the-art technology that allows it to develop new products as well as the upgrade of existing models, with constant attention to better performance, ease of use and maintenance and cost reduction. Each new model is tested and certified according to stringent International quality protocols.
In line with Scotsman’s commitment to sector leading energy efficiency, it is also at the front of the ice making equipment industry’s moves to develop ‘Green’ solutions, and it has launched its first high efficiency CO2 Ice Flaker based on its popular MF 58 Split model. The system has been successfully trialled in Toulouse, south of France in conjunction with one of Europe's leading environmentally aware supermarket chains the Carrefour Group. Carrefour has extensive knowledge of CO2 refrigeration systems and the Scotsman MF 58 is designed to 'plug and play' with their existing CO2 cascade refrigeration systems. Carrefour has a stated commitment to convert 700 of its Europe wide stores to CO2 systems.
The first Scotsman CO2 ice flaker marks a major turning point in modern ice making technology. Traditional HFC refrigerants can be several thousand times more powerful than CO2 in terms of their global warming potential (GWP). CO2 is the ‘Green’ future, and its use is going to have a major effect on the UK ice making industry. Waitrose has a commitment to roll out HFC free refrigeration in all new stores and major refurbishments, TESCO plans to reduce leakage and introduce HFC-free refrigeration in 150 stores by 2012 and is pioneering the use of HFC-free systems in developing countries, whilst M&S has installed CO2 based systems in 13 stores.
Scotsman Flake Ice is ice in its most natural shape. Extruded at a temperature just below zero degrees it suits a variety of applications, including fisheries, laboratories and industrial uses. Flake Ice offers the best solution for maintaining refrigerated perishables where long-lasting freshness, and natural appearance need to be guaranteed. Scotsman Flake Ice machines offer the widest range of production capacities available. Compact or split, self-contained or modular, Scotsman machines fit virtually any space and capacity requirement, and are selected as the choice of the most demanding food processing and industrial production companies around the world.
Scotsman Scale Ice is sub-cooled ice where the temperature range of the ice scales may vary between - 6° and - 12° Celsius. Scotsman Scale Ice machines manufacture ice in a range of thicknesses: The ice ranges from 1.5 mm, as preferred by the meat processing industry, to 3 mm as demanded by the fishing industry, to best suit processing and transport requirements. Supermarket specialists use Scale Ice to prepare a layer of scale and flake ice on fish and seafood displays. The result is a combined effect of longer lasting freshness and natural appearance of the fresh food, with slower ice melt than with flake ice. Scotsman Scale Ice machines are available in both fresh and saltwater variants for both ice formation and as a coolant.
Scotsman Cubelet Ice is made from hard compacted flake ice in a uniformed cubelet shape and has a slow melt rate.
Scotsman has been designing and manufacturing ice machines since 1950 – from its European Headquarters near Milan (Pogliano Milanese) and its American base in Fairfax, South Carolina, distributing its machines in more than 100 countries, with over one million units installed worldwide.
