FMA recently completed the design, manufacture and installation of a large Extended Shelf Life (ESL) installation.
The machinery supplied:
- 1000L FMA horizontal agitated kettle with
- 500L FMA horizontal agitated kettle (as above)
- Two FMA form fill seal packaging machines. The third unit was existing
- Four FMA Linear Water Chillers With refrigeration evaporators
- Six modular belt conveyors
- One FMA pressure cooking system with ribbon blender, direct steam injection and jacket heading
- Duel steam jackets
- Load cells
- Euro bin lifter
- Clean in place (CIP)
- Sanitary divesion valves automatically
- Positioned to the requirement of a specific operation
- Intergrated sanitary food pump
- Intergrated food emulsifer
- Touch screen HMI
- ESL (Extended Shelf Life) Cook Chill is a meal production system that employs rapid chilling of food cooked in, or transferred into, plastic packaging.
- Rapid product chilling is critical to extended shelf life, cook-chill and sous vide processes.
- All FMA systems are PLC controlled with data storage facilities, for quality and HACCAP control.
- FMA has over 25 years of experience in cook chill projects ranging in size from 500 to 30000 meals per day.
- FMA manufactures in Australia all of the components needed for a quality ESL Cook/Chill System, including Cook/Chill Tanks, Oscillating and Tumble Chillers as well as Kettles, Brat Pans and Transfer Systems.
500L FMA horizontal agitated kettle.
1000L FMA horizontal agitated kettle.
View of FMA 500L kettle at idler end and FMA euro bin lifter.
The bags of food are transferred and lifted into the primary linear chiller. Shown is a FMA “pinch” conveyor.
View of mecahic components that manage the flow of food, CIP, steam and condesate.
View of FMA form fill seal machine.
View of mecahic components that manage the flow of food, CIP, steam and condesate.
FMA Pressure kettle.
Pressure kettle work platform.
View of ribbon mixer attached to the FMA pressure kettle.
FMA Form fill seal machine attached to the pressure kettle and ribbon mixer.
View showing 4 linear water chillers with the primary unit in the foreground.
View of FMA linear water chiller with refrigeration evaporator mounted on top of the chiller.
Steam and condensate process lines CIP supply is in this local.
View of steam installation in ceiling space. Automatic and manual shut off valves with sanitary steam filter and steam flow control valve are shown.
