Overview
In the highly competitive pet food industry, efficiency, consistency, and quality are key factors for maintaining product standards and meeting regulatory requirements. Heating is critical in many pet food production processes, including cooking, pasteurization, and sterilization.
Direct Steam Injection (DSI) heaters provide several advantages over traditional heating systems, making them an ideal solution for pet food manufacturers looking to improve product quality, optimize processes, and reduce operational costs:
- Ensures on-demand and uniform heating, preventing temperature inconsistencies and ensuring pet food safety and quality
- Supports sustainability efforts by increasing energy efficiency, eliminating heat transfer losses, reducing energy consumption, and minimizing product waste, resulting in lower environmental impact and significant cost savings.
- Delivers consistent product quality across batches, maintaining texture, flavor, and nutritional value in pet food
- Enhances food safety by quickly reaching and maintaining necessary temperatures for pathogen elimination, reducing contamination risks
- Reduces maintenance needs and downtime with fewer surfaces prone to fouling, keeping production lines running smoothly
- Features a compact design for easy integration into existing production lines, optimizing space and minimizing infrastructure changes
- Improves nutrient retention by providing precise temperature control, preserving essential vitamins and nutrients in pet food
- Offers flexibility to accommodate various product types, allowing seamless transitions between wet food, dry food, treats, and specialty diets
Hydron™
The Hydron™ 400 Series is the most precise, accurate, versatile Sanitary Hydroheater. Its modular 3-A-certified design delivers optimal process flexibility and stability in an easy-to-use and maintain design.
- Volume capability: 1 up to 460 gpm [0.2 up to 104.5 m³/hr]
NOH™ (Non-Obstructing Heater)
The Non-Obstructing Heater is rugged enough to handle even the toughest abrasive materials, like sand and grit, to fibrous materials and large particulates.
- Its non-obstructive design protects against plugging, fouling, and pressure drop with its powerful, unrestricted flow.
- Volume capability: 30 up to 3,035 gpm [6.8 up to 689 m³/hr]
Solaris®
Perfect for viscous slurries, the Solaris® heater features an optimized straight-through design and low shear flow. It is also perfect for heavy slurries with medium consistency or higher solid contents. The flow diffuser injects steam across the entire cross-section to ensure thorough mixing and a uniform temperature profile, even at a high volume and flow rate.
- Volume capability: 5 up to 25,000 gpm [1 up to 5,678 m³/hr]
Infuze
Compact and fully sanitary cooking skid that helps products achieve finished recipe results, pasteurization, or blended emulsification through 3-A, EHEDG, and FDA certifications.
- Volume capability: 3 up to 255 gpm [0.7 up to 57.9 m3/hr]
Silverline™
The Silverline™ is a polished stainless-steel steel system engineered to replicate specified processing profiles precisely. It is 3-A certified and meets EHEDG, CE, and FDA requirements. Despite its simple appearance, it incorporates thousands of hours of engineering into a single, advanced machine – acclaimed as one of the most advanced food and beverage processing systems globally.
- Volume capability: 5 up to 200 gpm [1.1 up to 45 m3/hr]
EZ Heater®
The EZ Heater® is the industry leader in all hot water applications with its unique internal modulation, and self-cleaning ability. With on-demand hot water where you need it, the EZ Heater is ideal for washing stations, Clean in Place (CIP) systems, and anywhere reliable hot water is needed.
- Volume capability: 2 up to 1,350 gpm [.5 up to 306 m3/hr]