Australia and New Zealand on display

Anuga FoodTec is the premier international food processing equipment and technology exhibition. At this year's event, four Australian/New Zealand companies will show the international food processing community their wares.

Heat and Control

Founded in the back corner of a garage in 1950, Heat and Control has transformed the food processing industry by pioneering continuous cooking equipment. The company’s innovations include pioneering the external heat exchanger for industrial frying systems, high-speed processing equipment for potato chips and other snacks and the invention of the multipurpose oven, the MPO Cooking System. More recent innovations include the HeatWave fryer, FastBack conveyor, Revolution Seasoning System and Revolution Proportional Gate and the KleenHeat heat exchanger.

The company is still privately owned and its second-generation management has expanded the portfolio into packaging systems and Heat and Control, in close partnership with Ishida, has become a full service provider of food processing technologies.

Continuing its pioneering tradition of food processing technology development, Heat and Control is exhibiting four of its latest innovations at Anuga FoodTec.

French fry system

The next generation French Fry System is designed to improve finished product consistency and frying quality. Users have total control of product quality, providing an efficient solution estimating up to 25% reduced equipment costs.

Benefits:

• Increase product pack depth
• Reduce fryer size and floor space requirement
• Reduce oil volume and oil turnover rate
• Integrated de-oiling capabilities
• Increase operating efficiency
• Reduce system cost
• Modular design for reduced installation costs

On-machine seasoning system

The FastBack Revolution On-Machine seasoning system delivers high efficiency by operating as an integrated system with bagmakers, weighers and product delivery conveyors.

Users can accurately and uniformly apply different seasonings at the point-of-packaging and use less seasoning.

The on-machine seasoning system (OMS) can be used for:

• Potato, batch and baked chips
• Extruded products - slurry applied - topical seasoning OMS
• Tortilla chips - both with and without pre-oiling
• Nuts, crackers, grain chips, popcorn and mini rice cakes

Slurry spray system

Spray Dynamics is a Heat and Control company that began in 1970 by developing a bread pan oiler. The system addressed the need for a faster, cleaner, more efficient method for commercial bakeries to apply release agents to their bread pans. Since then, Spray Dynamics has become a world-recognised supplier of efficient, high quality and innovative equipment for the controlled application of liquid and dry ingredients.

The company’s slurry spray system can be used to spray virtually any pumpable slurry, including sugar, syrup, chocolate, oil or emulsions. It has been engineered for cereal, snack and pet food applications to maximise coverage and minimise waste. The clog-free spray station design prevents nozzle plugging. It is available for use in coating drum and conveyor belt applications.

Coating drums

Every coating drum manufactured by Spray Dynamics is designed and engineered specifically to meet the requirements of the product.

The Soft Flight Coating Drum features a shell-in-shell design that provides sanitary operation and simple cleaning for meat, dairy and other process-specific applications.

The variable tilt frame assembly and product flight design exposes each piece of product to the application of liquid and dry coatings. This custom product flight configuration reduces breakage.

Soft Flight coating drums are available in a variety of sizes and configurations.

Heat and Control (www.heatandcontrol.com)

Goldpeg International

Gold Peg specialises in direct steam injection (DSI) continuous cooking systems for pasteurisation, UHT/sterilisation and aseptic cooking and processing. The company provides industrial food equipment for the production of processed cheese, mozzarella, desserts, rendered meat products, pet food, taco meat, sauces, soups and dips, baby food and infirmed food, fruit and vegetables and more.

The RotaTherm Direct Steam Injection Continuous Cooking System has been designed so that users can set the heating and processing parameters such as cooking temperature, heating profile, shear, pressure, mixing as well as various other settings - all with a precise level of control. The latest release, the RotaTherm CUBE System delivers flexibility and accurate control for throughputs up to 1,000 kg/h.

Gold Peg also offers ancillary equipment including feed systems, auger feed hoppers, direct cooling - using vacuum de-aeration flash vessel, indirect cooling, surge vessels, creaming tanks, conveyors, blenders, temperature probes, control systems and CIP systems.

Gold Peg International (www.goldpeg.com.au)

Cavitus Pty Ltd

Cavitus focusses on high power ultrasound (HPU) - an emerging technology that is clean and green and adds to the sustainability efforts of the businesses who embrace it.

Ultrasonic sound waves, as emitted by Cavitus systems, cause the creation of sub-microscopic vapour bubbles in the liquid phase, which expand and contract thousands of times per second. The collapse or implosion (cavitation) of the vapour bubble creates localised high temperature (up to 5000+ K) and pressure (of 2000+ atmospheres) and the creation of a fast moving high-shear energy wave (570 km/h). The high-shear energy created by the cavitation effect can be focused and used in a range of applications such as the modification of particles in a liquid, for the breakdown of cellular and molecular structures, de-aeration of liquids and surface.

Currently the company offers 5 HPU application families which cover extraction, temporary viscosity reduction, density enhancement, de-foaming and cleaning and sanitation.

Cavitus (www.cavitus.com)

GEA Avapac

GEA Avapac's core business is the design and manufacture of a range of bag filling machines and hygienic packing systems for a wide variety of powders.

In 1994 the GEA group recognised the potential of NZ company, Avalon Engineering and acquired the company. Founded in the mid-70s, Avalon Engineering focused on the design and production of hygienic packaging components and systems for the NZ dairy industry.

GEA Avapak (www.avapac.com)