Shelf Plate Freezer
Shelf-style plate freezing for products that arrive in regular shapes — packaged or bare. Product rests between refrigerated shelf plates and freezes by direct contact: faster than air-blast, with less moisture loss, in a compact cabinet.
- Method
- Direct contact, shelf plates
- Configuration
- Horizontal or vertical
- Product form
- Packaged or bare, regular shapes
- Footprint
- Compact
How it is built
Direct contact, less dehydration
Because cold flows into the product through the plate interface rather than moving air, freezing is quick and large ice crystals rarely form — taste and texture hold up, and surface moisture loss is lower than with air-blast freezing.
Built around five working parts
Freezing plates in corrosion-resistant aluminium or stainless steel; a hydraulic system that moves plates and applies pressure; the refrigeration circuit through the plates; an insulated enclosure that holds temperature with minimal loss; and a control panel for temperature, pressure and cycle time.
Suited to uniform loads
Shelf plates work best when pieces in a cycle are roughly uniform in dimension — fillets, blocks, patties and sealed packs of similar size freeze evenly together.
Hygiene by construction
Food-grade materials and smooth surfaces are made for wash-down between batches, in line with the sanitation routines food plants already run.
Specifications
| Freezing method | Direct contact, shelf plates |
|---|---|
| Configuration | Horizontal or vertical shelf arrangement |
| Plate material | Aluminium or stainless steel |
| Controls | Temperature, pressure and cycle time |
| Product form | Regular-shaped products, packaged or bare |
| Best for | Fish fillets and blocks, shrimp, meat patties and portions, boxed ready meals, fruit and vegetable blocks |
Sizes and duties beyond the figures above are set against your product and output at quotation.
Used for
Questions
Both freeze by plate contact. The shelf plate arranges plates as shelves for stacked, regular loads and smaller batches; the hydraulic plate presses product between plates under hydraulic pressure for block production. Tell us your product form and daily output and we will point you to the right one.
It is at its best with regular shapes. Very mixed sizes in one cycle, or loose small pieces, belong on a belt freezer instead — the fluidized bed or an impingement tunnel.
The product and its dimensions, packaged or bare, target daily output, and layout constraints. A quotation typically follows within one to two working days.
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Tell us what you are freezing.
Send the product, target capacity, piece size and your layout constraints. A quotation typically follows within one to two working days.