Efficient pouch cooling solution
Designed to cut cooling times in half, this solution efficiently reduces the bacterial danger zone duration in food processing, ensuring enhanced food safety and energy efficiency.
Cools and Stabilizes Temperature of Food Products
The Mini Flex Chill-Flow™ Cooler by Lyco Manufacturing is an innovative solution for efficient cooling in the food processing and pet food industries. It utilizes submerged water agitation to halve cooling times while ensuring uniform temperature stabilization across various product types. This cooler uniquely addresses the challenge of rapidly passing pouched and sous vide foods through the critical bacterial danger zone of 130°F to 80°F, enhancing food safety. Suitable for continuous, batch, or oscillating operations, it accommodates a wide range of pouch sizes and products, from packaged seafood to plant-based proteins. Designed with minimal maintenance needs and easy integration, the system features almost zero maintenance requirements and on-machine controls, making installation straightforward. Constructed with sanitary cleanable design to meet food safety standards, the Mini Flex Chill-Flow™ Cooler supports production environments focused on quality and efficiency.
Benefits
- Reduces cooling times and enhances food safety by swiftly navigating the bacterial danger zone.
- Minimizes maintenance efforts with nearly zero required upkeep, ensuring seamless operations.
- Offers flexible processing with options for continuous, batch, and oscillating modes.
- Ensures uniform product quality with gentle agitation and submerged cooling.
- Simplifies installation and operation with on-machine controls for efficient integration.
- Applications
- Seafood,Sous vide,Pasta,Pet food,Meat,Plant-based protein,Pouched pet food,Rice,Vegetables,Poultry,Dry beans,Pouches
- End products
- Frozen vegetable medleys,Canned chickpeas,Packaged shrimp,Canned wet dog food,Vacuum-sealed sous vide steaks,Wet cat food,Heat-and-eat meal pouches,Instant rice packets,Pre-cooked chicken breasts,Tofu blocks,Dry macaroni packaging
- Steps before
- Cooking,Blanching,Pasteurizing,Pouch Filling
- Steps after
- Packing,Storage,Distribution
- Input ingredients
- pouches,sous vide items,pouched pet food
- Output ingredients
- cooled pouches,uniformly cooled products,safely cooled products
- Market info
- Lyco Manufacturing is known for designing and producing innovative cooking, cooling, and liquid-solid separation equipment, primarily for the food processing industry, with a strong reputation for reliability, efficiency, and cutting-edge solutions.
- Cooling mode
- Continuous / Batch / Oscillating
- Cooling efficiency
- Reduces cooling time by half
- Temperature range
- 130°F to 80°F (54.4°C to 26.7°C)
- Unit size
- 72" dia. x 8' or 12' long
- Maintenance
- Almost zero maintenance
- Installation
- Controls mounted on machine
- Sanitary design
- Improved food safety
- Temperature Achievement
- Can achieve 40°F (4.4°C)
- Agitation method
- Gentle Hydro-Flow®
- Cooling mechanism
- Submerged water agitated cooling
- Operation mode
- Continuous / Batch / Oscillating
- Automated control system
- Controls mounted on machine
- Reduced danger zone time
- Passes through 130°F to 80°F twice as fast
- Flexibility
- Handles range of pouch sizes
- Maintenance requirement
- Almost zero maintenance
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Pouch Size Flexibility
- Handles a Range of Sizes
- Compact footprint
- N/A
- Control panel type
- Mounted on machine
- Discharge method
- Agitated water flow
- Unit size
- 72" dia. x 8' or 12' length
- Agitation method
- Hydro-Flow® agitation