BOC Helps Hamburger Maker Freeze Better Burgers.Business Editors MURRAY HILL Murray Hill may refer to one of the following places:
A hamburger manufacturer in St. Louis is increasing yield, reducing nitrogen consumption and saving money after adding a BOC (Bell Operating Company) One of 22 companies that was formerly part of AT&T and later organized into seven regional companies. See RBOC. cryogenic impingement impingement (impinj´m  nt),n the striking or application of excessive pressure to a tissue by food or a prosthesis. freezer to one of its processing lines. When Holten Meats wanted to reduce dehydration and free up floor space to make room for packaging equipment, the company turned to BOC for an answer. Tim Lupton, vice president of operations, Holten Meats, said, "The BOC impingement freezer really filled the niche we'd had. Its production capacity, smaller footprint and overall performance have been outstanding, and it has met all our needs." BOC is the first and only company to offer a cryogenic impingement freezer, which delivers the meat industry's highest freezing efficiency, resulting in a consistent, uniform freeze that locks in moisture, resulting in higher yield. The BOC cryogenic impingement freezer is best suited to products with high surface-to-weight ratios, such as hamburger patties, sandwich steaks and bacon. It also can be used to quickly crust-freeze thicker products, such as pork chops. "Dehydration loss from the cryogenic impingement freezer is typically some 3 to 5 times lower than conventional cryogenic freezers and up to 10 times better than mechanical freezers. Plus, it allows customers to reduce their overall nitrogen consumption between 10 and 25 percent, depending on the application," said Mike Newman, manager of equipment development, food solutions group, BOC. Because the impingement freezer runs at a much colder temperature than a mechanical freezer, customers can achieve higher production rates in smaller floor space. Plus, the freezer's modular design In the context of systems engineering, modular design — or "modularity in design" — is an approach aiming to subdivide a system into smaller parts (modules) that can be independently created and then used in different systems to drive multiple functionalities. allows 10-foot-long sections to be assembled to fulfill a customer's precise requirements, up to a maximum of 50 feet in length. BOC provides a single source for cryogenic and non-cryogenic gases, state-of-the-art food safety and cryogenic freezing and chilling technologies and a variety of technologies for growth and harvest, packaging, preparation and preservation, storage, transport, water recycling and disinfection disinfection, n the process of destroying pathogenic organisms or rendering them inert. disinfection, full oral cavity, n a procedure used to reduce active periodontal disease, usually completed within a certain short time frame. , water treatment and distribution. Holten Meat is a processor of over 300 quality beef, pork and veal veal, flesh of a calf from two to three months old weighing usually less than 300 lb (135 kg). The locomotion of the veal calves is often restricted, and they are fed a real or synthetic milk that is high in protein and low in iron; this produces the desired products for institutional and retail markets throughout the North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . More information is available at http://www.holtenmeat.com The BOC Group (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :BOX), the worldwide industrial gases, vacuum technologies and distribution services company, serves two million customers in more than 50 countries. It employs some 43,000 people and had annual sales of over $6 billion in 2001. Further information about The BOC Group may be obtained on the Internet at http://www.boc.com. |
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