UK freezer firm wins Thai deal

UK equipment manufacturer Starfrost has supplied five spiral freezers to a Thai chicken processor as part of a major factory expansion.

Based near Bangkok, Golden Foods Siam (GFS) manufactures a variety of chicken products including raw processed meat and cooked added value ranges. It supplies retail and food service markets in the UK and Ireland, Continental Europe, Asia and the Middle East, as well as Thailand.

This year, GFS opened a new processing facility in order to expand its cooked added value division. A key requirement for the new factory was an efficient freezing system for processing products including marinated and coated chicken pieces and karaage, a Japanese delicacy.

Starfrost won the contract and worked closely with the GFS management team to custom design and manufacture five Helix spiral freezers.

Each machine has a processing capacity of up to 2,000kg/hr and features a 660mm (26in) wide belt with 32 tiers spiraling upward around a single rotating drum.

“We were impressed with the build quality and reliability of our existing Starfrost equipment and had no hesitation in choosing to work with Starfrost again,” says GFS operations director Egbert Segers. “The sales team had an excellent understanding of our specific requirements for this project and the spiral freezers are performing exactly to specification.”