Enhance the quality and flavor of your meat products with the advanced alco Tenderizer ASC. Designed to deliver outstanding results, our tenderizer utilizes cutting-edge technology to provide your products with numerous small incisions or optional perforations.
The process is seamless: your products are carefully guided through a pair of precision knife rollers, powered by a reliable belt system. These rollers deliver offset incisions from both below and above, ensuring thorough and consistent tenderization. What sets our tenderizer apart is the ability to adjust the cutting depth according to your specific requirements. With height-adjustable knife rollers, you have complete control over the level of tenderness.
The benefits are remarkable: This type of processing improves the product’s tenderness, dimensional stability, and cooking behavior as well as the absorption of coating media such as marinades. High-quality components, a proven design, and a multitude of adjustment options meet the food industry’s highest standards for hygiene, flexibility, individuality, and safety.
Features & Benefits
Distance between knife rollers is height-adjustable, enabling setting of cutting depth
Opens up muscle fibers for marination without destroying muscle integrity
Particularly high frequency of the incisions possible through a reduced gap between the blades or special toothing of the blades
Perfect product delivery by swivelling infeed and outfeed conveyors
Maximize myosin protein availability for improved water binding characteristics, reducing cook-out, and improving product yields
Optional Cuber-Insert for perforating shaped meat products like burgers
High operating safety
Can be driven on four heavy-load steering rollers and rotated 360°, with parking brake and height adjustment
Details
Blade height adjustment for setting the intensity of the incisions on the product
Reduced blade gap and special toothing raises the frequency of the incisions through the smaller gap of the toothed disc blades with finer teeth and a smaller tooth gap
The extended outlet belt acts as an additional conveyor line for gentle transfer to subsequent machines
A spindle height adjustment sets the height of the entire machine by means of a handwheel
The optional perforation reel perforates shaped meat products like hamburgers
JBT has a long history of providing turnkey process system solutions to a variety of industries. Our core competencies are in the design, custom fabrication and installation of products for stainless steel process systems including process tanks and vessels, skidded systems and process modules, heat exchangers and more.
JBT Bevcorp’s MicroBlend is available in a variety of combinations including:
Carbonated soft drink blenders offer optional CO2 or N2 injection with water deaeration and product chilling
Hot fill and non-carbonated blenders are manufactured without the gas injection, deaeration, and product chilling
Multi-stream blenders enable the addition of multiple streams of flavors and ingredients to the finished product
Micro2 Advantage Series Blender
Our MicroBlend Division’s newest piece of equipment is the Micro2 Advantage Series Blender. This improved blending system, built behind the original MicroBlend thought process, has new and improved features including:
Reduces oxygen and nitrogen levels in the blended product
Product achieved with low parts-per-billion levels of O2 and N2
Traditional deaeration methods no longer used, reducing processing hardware; vacuum pumps, vessels and membranes no longer needed
Simpler process; reduced blender and operating costs
Less volatile product at the filler; improves operating speed and temperature requirements
Deaeration occurs in CIP loop with improved sanitary design
Upgrades available only to Series 3 MicroBlend blenders
Trade-ins available (MicroBlend blenders only) on new equipment purchase
To achieve optimum results, changes may be required on existing fillers
The MicroBlend System
The MicroBlend blending system from JBT Bevcorp is the only patented mass flow based multi-stream blending system that offers precision blending to an accuracy of ± .1% with a repeatability of ± .025%. The MicroBlend blending system has achieved its ability to measure, blend, carbonate and calculate product strength and yield information due to the capabilities of the Micro Motion Elite Mass Flow Meters and the specialized software developed for this process.
Flow, density and temperature each play a crucial part in calculations performed in the MicroBlend system. The system uses Mass Flow Meters to measure the syrup, water and CO2 streams with blending ratios ranging from 2-to-1 to as high as 30-to-1. All quality, yield, efficiency and production records are displayed in real time as well as logged for review and can be ported to a supervisory computer.
Features & Benefits
Virtually eliminates losses due to off-spec product
Reduces downtime due to flavor or tank changes
Continuously monitors syrup concentration to reduce variances and improve product quality and yield
Calculates the exact amount of gas to be injected into the blended beverage.
Virtually eliminates product loss or empty containers left on the line due to its automated container cut-off feature
Continuously control brix and ratio
Alarm and shut down if product is not within operator specified range
Elevate finished product brix/ratio on start-ups
Shut down if sugar is introduced during a diet run
Continuous record of events and line conditions
Automated changeover
Automated container cut off
Details
Logs a constant record of events (operator changes, brix, tank changes, etc.)
Alarms and shuts down blend process if out of standard conditions occur for brix, ratio etc.)
Has elevation feature for start-up brix or ratio to make all product charge-ups the same
Informs operator when the syrup is at full strength at the blend unit on charge-ups
Variable blend rate lets operator choose the rate for desired containers per minute
Extremely accurate proportioning and monitoring; product accuracy of ±0.2%
Reads brix in true brix, not refractive brix, same as parent company
Records line speed, filler efficiency and actual and projected cases
Configurable inventory and production alarms
Can be totally hot or cold sanitized with no plumbing changes
Cost Savings & Payback
Our customers claim that our MicroBlend blending system has less than a two (2) year payback. The MicroBlend blending system saves money on changeovers in two ways. First, when water is used to push syrup to the blend unit; the MicroBlend blending system decreases the amount of water proportional to the lowering syrup brix until the blending rate cannot be maintained and automatically shuts down. All blended product in the system is at standard and can be used with maximum syrup yields.
Multi-Stream Blenders
For production with three or more streams, Bevcorp’s Multi-stream Blenders meet the current needs of the juice industry, as well as many other food and non-food manufacturers. Based on the recipe requirements, which can be stored in the blender’s memory, individual streams are enabled or disabled. The number of streams is essentially unlimited and each stream can be controlled to the flow meter’s specification of .1%. The units of measurement can be mass or volumetric.
To achieve the various flow capacities, each stream has specific control valves designed for potential flow rates. Flow controllers have multiple deviation alarms programmed with warnings to shut down based on severity. Each stream has its own priming mode and settings for initial startup sequencing. Rinsing and CIP are also delivered to each stream or its reservoir.
MicroBlend Functionality
These blenders utilize specialized software to allow graphics, component totals, density, temperature and event and historical data logging. The historical data allows review of the production records and specialized reporting.
Each stream will monitor:
Mass flow in lbs/min
Total lbs
Temperature
GPM
Density in gm/cm
Total gallons
Brix relative to sucrose
Control output percentage
Historical trending consists of:
Stream flow set point
Product tank level
Stream GPM
Product temperature
Control output percentage
Product tank flow
Product density
Product brix
Carbonated Soft Drinks (CSD)
Bevcorp’s CSD blenders are manufactured with either CO2 or N2O injection. CSD blenders can be equipped with either membrane or vacuum water deaeration. Bevcorp also provides product chillers with a reputation for quality.
Blend-Only (Juice)
Hot fill and non-carbonated blenders are manufactured without the gas injection, deaeration, and product chilling. Juice blending systems are manufactured in 304L or 316L SS depending on customer specifications. Mineralized waters can be blended at approximately 25-to-1.
When your machinery is down or not performing at optimal efficiency, time is money. JBT Bevcorp understands the value in having ONE SOURCE to call. That is why we have expanded our support to include setup, service, audits and trials for Alcoa/CSI and many other OEM capper brands.
JBT Bevcorp now adds best-in-class capper technical support to our filler, blender, handling, and seaming expertise. With one call you can now access service and technical support for your entire filling line – saving you time and money.
Service Offerings
Service and troubleshooting
Audits for Alcoa / CSI Cappers
Preventative Maintenance and Preventative Maintenance programs
Rebuilds
New closure trials and set-up
Training backed by seasoned experts
Case-by-case consulting and support for many OEM brands
Skilled technicians with over 100 years of combined experience
JBT Bevcorp’s MicroBlend field service technicians have extensive field repair experience on MicroBlend blending systems, as well as a variety of other systems. We can provide repairs, overhauls, preventative maintenance and upgrade kit installations.
Have a service emergency? Call us at 440 954 3506.
Blending Service Benefits
Repairs and Troubleshooting
Equipment overhauls
Audits and system evaluations
Installation of machine upgrades and kits
Preventative maintenance for MicroBlend blending systems
Phone technical support
Audits
MicroBlend Processors
Process engineers can perform audits and evaluations to:
Ensure system is operating at optimum performance level
Verify calibration of components for flow, temperature and density integrity
Evaluate operating procedures
Provide software program backups
Inspect and identify items that may need replacement or repair
A&B Process Systems carries extensive experience in the design, fabrication and installation of batch process systems and blend mix tanks and kettles for dosing of liquids, slurries, gases and bulk solids via loss-in-weight and gain-in-weight designs. We utilize a variety of flowmeter and load cell technologies, and can customize a variety of blending systems from agitation to low and high-shear mixing. Tanks and custom agitators can be skidded for specific applications. Click the image to watch a time-lapse of a tank with a turbine agitator and static baffles. Illustrating the flow pattern of an ingredient (red) being added to a batch and the time it takes to incorporate to a uniform/homogeneous mixture.
Features & Benefits
Small plant footprint
Very versatile and flexible
Available in several different options
Easy to clean (optional Clean-In-Place system installation available)
Each agitator type specializes in pre-determined applications, which makes it highly performant
Details
Our batching and blending systems have several applications depending on the type of blenders used.
All are designed and fabricated in conformance with 3-A, USDA, cGMP, ASME (U&R), BPE, FDA and API standards
We offer a wide range of sanitary and industrial Clean-in-Place (CIP) systems, CIP tanks and CIP units to reduce cleaning time and costs. We can apply a CIP system to single and multiple tank systems, with or without a common base. We also design and fabricate custom CIP systems, CIP tanks and CIP units based on your unique specifications. Our CIP design criteria is based on present 3-A, USDA, cGMP, ASME (U&R), BPE, FDA and API standards. Process control can be achieved through existing PLCs, self-supporting control systems or manual operations.
Features & Benefits
Improved operational hygiene and cleaning efficiency due to reproducible cleaning processes
Improved product quality, recovery and purity due to enhanced plant hygiene
Reduced expenditure of time and personnel for manually performing the cleaning tasks
Reduced pollution and production costs through the effective use and reuse of water, cleaning chemicals and boiler condensate
A safer, more consistent method of plant sanitation
We can provide the required hot water and/or steam processing when it is not readily available. Our water heating systems are designed and manufactured to meet specified performance criteria as well as cGMP requirements.
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