JBT Advantec Narrow reduces gas bills while fitting into tight spaces

JBT Corporation’s Advantec Narrow Impingement Freezer is a highly-cost effective, efficient, fast-freezing solution for customers across the food industries.

Building on the success of the earlier Advantec Impingement Freezer, the Advantec Narrow brings all of capacity and functionality benefits of the original freezer, but with important innovations aimed at reducing its footprint and alleviating the pressures of high cryogenic gas prices on companies.

Developed and designed as an answer to specific market and customer needs, the Advantec Narrow offers high-speed freezing of flat products up to 25 mm thick, and chill and crust freeze of products up to 200 mm thick – such as meat, seafood and fish – where freezing in a quick and highly-efficient way is vital.

Using innovative air jet technology, the Advantec system freezes foods in minutes, preserving product quality, taste and mouthfeel, and avoiding the potential damage caused by drip-loss and ice crystals in conventional freezers. The process minimises dehydration and maximises yield, while also increasing product shelf-life.

While undoubtedly effective, the previous version of the Advantec presented a challenge to companies with capacity and space limitations. In consultation with customers, JBT engineers came up with the Advantec Narrow, a freezer that offers all the benefits and capacity of the first iteration but over a radically-reduced amount of floorspace.

The Narrow also offers a winning solution for processors trying to cope with the rapidly increasing costs of cryogenic gas freezing. Thanks to its smaller dimensions, the Narrow allows processors that had been using cryogenic freezing equipment – typically with a smaller width than the standard Advantec – to replace their cryogenic gas freezers with a more modern, full-impingement method, for better and longer production hours, and a more cost-effective freezing solution.

The Advantec Narrow is not only convenient in size and makes replacing other freezing solutions easy and effortless, but comes with all the same high-capacity performance and advanced impingement technology as the standard Advantec Impingement freezer.

Torbjörn Persson, director of global sales support & product line management for Frigoscandia Freezers, said: “The Advantec impingement freezer is a well known solution for the very fast freezing of products such as fish, seafood and meat where quick and high quality freezing is required.

“Seeing that our customers wanted to maximise their production facilities, JBT has now developed a narrow footprint version of the Advantec. The new freezer has a much more narrow footprint being approximately 1.2 metres narrower and has sliding doors that enable easy access for defrost and cleaning. This area can also be used for access for transport during production.

“Even with a narrower footprint, the freezing capabilities are identical to the standard Advantec, allowing customers to benefit from a truly innovative freezing system.”

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