Continuous belt thawing unit for frozen seafood
Quickly defrost block-frozen products with minimal water usage, enhancing your production efficiency and ensuring optimal product quality with precision-controlled thawing processes.
Thaws and Separates Block-Frozen Products
The Belt Thawing Unit – Water Spray System from Cabinplant is designed for continuous and efficient thawing of block-frozen products. This unit offers a unique water spray technique for rapid thawing while conserving water resources. Ideal for seafood processing facilities, fish plants, and frozen food manufacturers, the unit’s operation involves a first-in, first-out system that ensures the most accessible product is processed first. The thawing process utilizes warm water heated by steam, recirculated over the product blocks through a specially designed distribution tray for uniform coverage. With capacity options tailored to meet specific throughput needs, it supports integration into automated lines with seamless conveyance and temperature control. Cabinplant’s bespoke engineering services further allow customization to meet diverse production requirements, ensuring compatibility with various frozen items, from seafood and meats to dairy and pet food segments.
Benefits
- Optimizes resource use, minimizing water consumption and operational costs.
- Improves processing efficiency with rapid thawing times.
- Enhances product quality with first-in, first-out processing for consistent output.
- Eases integration with existing production lines through seamless automation.
- Offers customizable configurations for diverse production needs, ensuring versatility.
- Applications
- Seafood,Dairy food,Convenience food,Pet food,Meat,Fruits,Vegetables,Poultry,Fish
- End products
- Poultry cuts,Herring fillets,Block-frozen vegetables,Cold water shrimp,Whole fish,Mackerel fillets,Convenience meal blocks,Frozen pet food portions,Shellfish,Dairy blocks,Frozen meat portions,Fish fillets,Block-frozen fruits
- Steps before
- Freezing,Block formation,IQF processing
- Steps after
- Separation,Accumulation,Temperature control,Further processing,Packaging
- Input ingredients
- block frozen products,IQF products,cold water shrimp,herring,mackerel,whole fish,shellfish,fillets,meat
- Output ingredients
- thawed block-frozen products,thawed IQF products,separated thawed shrimp,separated thawed fish,separated thawed shellfish,thawed fillets,thawed meat
- Market info
- Cabinplant is known for designing and manufacturing tailored processing solutions for the food industry, specializing in fish, seafood, fruits, and vegetables. They are reputed for their innovative technology and efficiency in delivering customer-specific engineered-to-order equipment.
- Thawing method
- Water spray
- Water consumption
- Low
- Thawing time
- Short
- Automation
- Automatic collection and temperature control
- Product type compatibility
- Block-frozen,IQF products
- Capacity
- Various sizes available
- Heating method
- Steam
- Automation level
- Fully automated
- Continuous operation vs. batch operation
- Continuous
- Thawing mechanism
- Water spray
- First-in/First-out effect
- Yes
- Low water consumption
- Yes
- Short thawing time
- Yes
- Temperature control
- Automatic
- Frozen product type
- Block / IQF
- Machine footprint
- Depends on model
- Tank shape
- Rectangular
- Feed method
- Manual vertical infeed
- Discharge method
- Automatic separation and discharge
- Control panel type
- Automatic temperature control
- Control panel type
- Optional PLC integration
- Discharge method
- Automatic collection on separate conveyor
- Compact footprint
- Designed for space-efficient operation
- Integration possibilities
- First-in,first-out effect