Plate freezing technology leader DSI Freezing Solutions opens its new test centre this week. The new facility’s focus is on collection and analysis of freezing data for R&D as well as commercial purposes.
Unfortunately the opening didn't take place to a backdrop of popping of champagne corks and a throng of international guests. Covid-19 has stopped any hopes of that. Instead, it’s an almost regular working day for engineer Mikkel Bøggild, who started the compressor and switched on the test plate freezers.
All the same, he’s excited that the day has come.
“With this test centre, we can optimise machines and products even further. We combine our freezing technology and our CorePoint measurement equipment with software to measure and analyze our customers’ data,” he said.
The test centre consists of a 30 kW facility and scalable freezers, that can be rebuilt depending on requirements – to be able to test vertical and horizontal freezers of varying sizes – as well as a significant amount of measurement equipment, all of which enables DSI Freezing Solutions to see and present the measurements in real time – at site and online.
This makes sense during a global pandemic, but it is also relevant for DSI Freezing Solutions’ many international customers.
At the test centre, food manufacturers will be able to scrutinise their products for optimising purposes with help from experts with great knowledge of plate freezing in all relevant industries, such as fish, meat and poultry and fruit, vegetables and liquids. For instance, it is possible to look into how various freezing temperatures, different batches and types of packing may affect the freezing process. But instead of doing it on site and slowing down production, the manufacturer can continue the daily production while testing at the test centre in north Denmark.
DSI Freezing Solutions CSO Michael Wounlund makes no secret of the fact, that the purpose of opening a test centre is commercial.
“For our potential customers, the test centre brings an opportunity to examine if plate freezing is really a cheaper alternative to their existing freezing solution,” he said.
“We often see that the potential savings in operational costs amounting to 30-40 % because plate freezing is much faster, but also because we are able to customise our freezers to exact needs. But when a company is looking into converting their production, they need numbers to support the business case. And with the test centre, we can assist them.”
DSI Freezing Solutions recently presented a new aim, to optimise their customer’s results while protecting the environment – and the test centre suits this purpose.
It will be possible for potential as well as existing customers to test and develop processes as well as products. At the same time, DSI Freezing Solutions are able to develop their portfolio of applications and products while continuing the R&D focus on developing sustainable freezing solutions and maintaining the position as market leader within plate freezing technology.
