Food & Food Equipment News

All New Ice Manager By Follett Corporation

Follett Corporation now carries an all new Ice Manager that distributes ice from one Horizon icemaker to two other units. Able to fill most dispensers or bins, the Ice Manager includes a drop-in soda dispenser, and the “ice-though-a-tube technology” gives the option of installing an ice machine up to 75 feet away from dispensers of ice or beverages. The tube-like dispenser allows for a more organized look without warm temperatures and racket.

Advantages of the Ice Manager include lower operating costs and equipment investment, specifically a fewer ice machine purchase rate, easy cleaning and access to the machine. Also, the Ice Manager transports ice safer and sanitary through the tubes, allowing the operator to handle ice less manually, keeping him/her safe from sliding on spilt ice.

Ready with a control panel, diverter valve and workings to connect the Ice Manager, the machine is automatic.

Follett Corporation began in 1948 as a designer and manufacture of equipment for an array of industries such as healthcare, foodservice, hospitality and supermarkets.

For more information, visit www.follettice.com.

Garland Restaurant Range—Rigid And Precise

A new Restaurant Range offered by Garland exhibits durability and better performance. The range maintains thermal management and a chassis design that was based on 120 years of foodservice experience. A balanced burner, a 33,000 BTU cast iron Starfire-Pro burner, combines speed, with evened heat to improve controlled effectiveness when cooking. With easy maintenance, individual burner pilots take care of spillover outages, and ergonomic grates, and two-piece burners provide cleaning that’s both safe and easy.

The range also includes an expanded cook top, or surface, that carries an individual cast iron grate with 27 inches of surfaced depth to cook on, griddle accuracy that offers a variety of thermostatic temperature settings. Larger and more flexible, the ranges interior allows standard sheet pans to be loaded in either width or length directions.

Additional and optional features include the griddle plate, and hot plate selections, coming in 12-inch-wide selections, replacing a front and rear burner.

Garland is a brand of Enodis USA , a foodservice outlet that equips operators with “answers and solutions that enhance menus, service, profits and efficiency.  Working in conjunction with brands in the Enodis portfolio, Enodis USA helps to develop multibrand solutions in every segment of the foodservice industry.”

For more information, visit www.garland-group.com or www.enodisusa.com.

IFMA’s President Steps Down

International Foodservice Manufacturers Association President (IFMA) and CEO, Michael J. Licata stepped down yesterday. Chicago-based, IFMA was headed by Licata for almost 31 years. 

With a search for his replacement underway, Litaca will work with the new president for a year before he heads out.

Joining IFMA in 1977, Licata has also worked in President Gerald Ford’s administration in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare as executive secretary and in the Department of Commerce as a trade specialist.

With IFMA, Licata built the association’s yearly Chain Operators Exchange (COEX).

For more information, visit www.ifmaworld.com.

High Speed Ice Shaving Machines Offered By Cretors

Inventing the popcorn machine, C. Cretors and Company now offers an Echols line of ice shavers that are high speed. Made for the food service and grocery industries, the ice shaving machines are efficient, multipurpose and able to use ice in sizes ranging from smaller cubes to larger chunks.         

Capable to be securely placed on a display case or on a counter, the machine is made of heavy duty cast aluminum, its construction reliable for many years of use. With outer Plexiglas components, the ice shaver “is sealed to be leak-proof.”

Versatile, the ice shaving machine suits numerous restaurants and grocery stores. Some of the machines uses include providing a bed of ice so seafood in display cases can rest upon, or storing fresh foods like meats.   

For more information, visit www.cretors.com.

Nilfisk CFM 118 Industrial Vacuum, Efficient And Easy To Use

The CFM 118 was recently added to King Vacuum Cleaner Company’s line of industrial vacuums. Equipped with a HEPA filter, the durable machine combines suction and filtration in a moveable design.               

Though the 118 is the smallest vacuum in the CFM line, it contains a large main filter, that ultimately prevents clogging, and an external filter can be shaken free of dust without actually opening the vacuum.

Other features of the vacuum include a by-pass motor and a wheeled collection container. Numerous accessories can also be purchased with the Nilfisk CFM 118 Industrial Vacuum that can be used in food manufacturing plans.

King Vacuum distributes Nilfisk-Advance products.

For more information on King Vacuum Cleaner Company or the Nilfisk CFM 118, visit www.kingvacuum.com.

A Better Fit And Feel: Sempermed’s New Glove

Sempermed now manufactures a Co-Polymer Nitrile Industrial Glove.

As a non-latex alternative, the Industrial Glove is made using a “fusion” boding process. This process creates a multi-layered glove that adds the comfort and elasticity of latex with the safety of nitrile. Providing strength and elasticity, the glove also has a lower modulus for less hand fatigue and is safer  and more durable to work with for longer periods of time.

This glove is designed to exceed the needs of modern industry, having a high solvent resistance. Complying with FDA 21 CFR Guidelines, the Industrial Glove is ideal for food, food processing, pharmaceutical and laboratory applications.

Sempermed is a manufacturer that provides sales, marketing and logistical support to those in need of hand protection.

For more information on Sempermed or its products, visit www.sempermedusa.com.

Dyson's Airblade Certified By NSF International

Now certified, the Airblade system by Dyson, an English vacuum cleaner company, was originally introduced in 2006. Marketed in the United States by Cannon Hygiene, Inc. and able to dry hands in less than 12 seconds, the Airblade receives the first and only award the NSF has ever given to a hand dryer manufacturer. Formerly known as the National Sanitary Foundation, NSF is a not-for-profit, non-governmental organization, headquartered in Ann Arbor, Mich.

In addition to the NSF award, the Airblade has been honored with endorsements from The Royal Institute of Public Health, London, and internationally recognized organization that promotes public health, and The British Skin Foundation, a charity committed to raising funds for skin disease research, also based in London.

Cannon Hygiene is a restroom hygiene services business. Based in Morecambe, Lancashire, England, it is responsible for maintaining health and hygiene standards. Today the company's products are found in more than 30 countries around the world, now offering products in America.

For more information on the Airblade or Cannon Hygiene, visit www.cannon-hygiene.net.

For The Winemaker Or Brewer—100 Gallon Minibrew Fermenter

Holly Beverage Equipment Company now offers a 100 gallon Minibrew Fermenter (f100) priced at $1,625. The fermenter includes a “one inch nickel-plated bottom ball valve and a one half-inch racking port nickel-plated ball valve.” Built with a half-inch thermometer thread, the newly designed fermenter stand is constructed out of steel with an outer coat of blue paint. In diameter, the tank size is 46 inches tall by 35 inches.

Standing a total of 60 inches tall, the f100’s tank, lid and parts weigh 45 pounds, with the stand weighing 150 pounds. Use and Care instructions come with the purchase, which is delivered by truck only. The  device can be used among winemakers, brewpubs and microbreweries.

For more information, visit www.minibrew.com.

Server Products And Rich Products Join, Topping Tunnel Created

Supplying condiment pumping equipment, Server Products teamed with Buffalo, N.Y., based Rich Products Corporation to develop equipment solutions: a holder and dispenser for their manufactured whipped topping.

The Ultimate Topping Tunnel designed specifically for Rich Products whipped topping, is a cone shaped holder that mounts steadily on a shake machine. Designed to cradle a pastry bag that Rich Products carries, the Topping Tunnel delivers toppings onto ice cream or coffee efficiently.

Rich Product pastry bags contain and internal decorator tip, accessible when the bag is opened. Resting inside the Topping Tunnel, Rich’s pastry bag is easily squeezed to decorate desserts or drinks placed below the topping holder.

The Ultimate Topping Tunnel can also decorate pie slices or anything you think deserves to be topped. Placing a pastry bag into a holder can also reduce contamination, like those bags that are set atop counters, attracting bacteria.

The Topping Tunnel is the first of many solutions to come for Rich Products.

For more information, visit www.server-products.com or www.richs.com.

Reach For Oven Mitts No More, Panhandler International’s Solution

Designed and built to last, the Panhandler kitchen utensil doubles as a handle for commercial pans and a strainer. Combined as one unit, the Panhandler is made out of heavy gauge, corrosion resistant stainless steel, with the handle itself being heat and bacteria resistant as well. Securely gripping edges of pans, the Panhandler’s “dimpled” intention adds steadiness when transporting pans from the counter to the sink.

Originally crafted by Victor Marriott, the Panhandler is convenient to use, saves money by not dropping food down the drain, reduces contamination from utilizing utensils and colanders that splash as you drain contents of a pan and keeps employees from acquiring in-the-kitchen accidents. 

For more information, visit www.panhandler.biz.