Holmach appointed UK agent for Perfinox
Chris Holland and Antonio Tavares
Following a European wide evaluation process, Holmach has added Perfinox’s range of food processing systems to its portfolio of technology solutions. Celebrating its 21st year in business, Perfinox manufactures components and systems for cooking, cooling, CIP and rapid heating and cooling from its state-of-the-art-factory near Porto, Portugal.
Perfinox has traditionally concentrated on supplying technology to other leading process systems integrators but the new partnership with Holmach will enable it to launch its own innovative technology in the UK market.
Antonio Tavares, owner and CEO of Perfinox, said: “With the engineering expertise of our team in Porto, partnered with the technical depth of experience and market knowledge of the team at Holmach, we now have the ideal platform to be able to expand our own sales network.”
Holmach, the exclusive distributor of this brand of equipment in the UK, will be introducing Perfinox to the industry over the coming months including the Perfitech, an all in one processing vessel that can include heating and cooling, homogenisation and emulsification and built in CIP, with vessels ranging in size from 200-3000 litres.
Coupled with Steam Infusion from partner OAL, Holmach can now offer cutting edge cooking solutions as well as the more traditional indirect and coil type vessels. Rapid batch turnaround can be successfully achieved, with one client running up to 450 SKUs per week. Other Perfinox products include Perfitherm, a vertical scraped surface heat exchanger and Perficlean, a compact CIP system for sauce and dairy manufacturers.
Managing director of Holmach, Chris Holland, said: “We spent 6 months evaluating a number of cooking system suppliers across Europe and decided that Perfinox offered the best solutions for the UK. Its wide experience in sauces, ready meals and baby foods was particularly important given that the UK is one of the most dynamic markets for these products, we are already finding substantial interest.”
