MIGHT SOUND CORNY BUT CONSUMERS CAN’T GET ENOUGH

Are you bringing your best corn products to market?

As a leading single-source supplier of corn processing systems — we’re ready to assist.

Corn-based snacks are more popular than ever. The once humble snack segment is now dominated by new flavours, shapes and seemingly endless variety. Whether it’s tortilla chips, corn chips, taco shells, tostadas, or tortillas — consumers can’t get enough — and corn snacks are one of the fastest growing segments in the food industry.

The many variations of finished corn products (and the complexity of corn preparation) mean different processes and equipment must be used for each line. But, industrial solutions for corn processing have come a long way. Modern equipment offers maximum productivity and optimised cleaning processes, and is built to last for decades.

CORN PRODUCTS PROCESSING

As a leading supplier of industrial corn processing equipment, we know what to do with corn. We’ve invested decades of research and development to advance the quality of food products, and our commitment to the food industry has revolutionised food production.

With our equipment — you can develop and maintain a unique, consistent flavour and texture for all your cooked corn products. Our long-term relationships with corn processors around the world, has helped us gain the insight needed to develop superior corn processing systems. From masa production to forming, toasting, conditioning, and frying capabilities, our systems can produce the finest corn and tortilla chips, taco shells, tostadas, and tortillas. And our cross-capacity solutions are versatile and efficient to help you bring your best corn products to market.

CORN PRODUCTS FRYER

The Corn Products Fryer has been specially designed for tortilla chips, corn chips, tostadas, taco shells and other formed corn products. It maintains frying consistency for tortilla chips, corn chips, and tostadas by using an externally-heated continuous oil circulation fryer, which achieves higher capacities, lower production costs, and superior product quality.

This fryer provides precise temperature control, low oil volume, and the most efficient continuous fines removal produces rapid oil turnover rates which in turn allows you to produce the freshest corn products possible, with a longer shelf life. Precise frying control allows you to finetune the continuous oil circulation between the fryer, filter and heat exchanger when product load changes to maintain complete control of product quality.

Standard fryers for up to 3,000 lbs/hr (1,361 kg/hr) of finished corn chips, and 4,500 lbs/hr (2,041 kg/hr) of finished tortilla chips can be configured and these systems are built for decades of reliable operation.

airfry calling!

Responding to trends: Are your customers interested in healthier and more nutritious versions of your products?

Air fried food is trending. Recent times have seen the bench-top air fryer gain almost cult status for its ability to help consumers produce similar results to deep-fried food — with little to no oil — at home. During the pandemic, sales of the appliance rose sharply as many consumers became increasingly health conscious and found comfort in being able to cook their favourite frozen foods at home.

Today, social media pages dedicated purely to air fried food recipes have hundreds-of-thousands of followers and continue to grow. Heat and Control has worked closely with the food industry to develop an innovative system that can help you respond to consumer demand for healthier versions — of your most popular lines.

The AirFry® System is ready to help you bring your best products to market and help you take advantage of the growing air fried foods segment. AirFry creates air fried/oven fried products — with a taste, texture, and appearance that is just like fried foods — without using traditional (submersion) frying methods.

Savvy brands are exploring new recipes for traditional favourites — with lower oil content.

5 Reasons Processors Love AirFry

1. Healthier versions of traditional favourites

Provides continuous means to produce a “fried-like” product by applying a controlled volume of topical oil, followed by pressurised high velocity cooking atmosphere from an impingement oven.

Explore new recipes for:

• Breaded products: non-free-flowing (flour), free-flowing (crumb), Japanese crumb

• Chicken breasts, strips, nuggets, and other boneless chicken pieces

• Breaded seafood, such as popcorn shrimp

• Breaded vegetables, such as onion rings

• Breaded cheese sticks

• Non-breaded products, such as baked taquitos and egg rolls

2. Superior taste, texture and appearance

Creates a range of air fried products with similar taste, texture, and appearance to fried food ¬ without traditional (submersion) methods.

3. Respond to trends!

Residential air fryers have paved the way for commercial applications that cook deep-fried food in healthier ways. Adding an AirFry system to your operation is a savvy way to expand/diversify your product range and give your customers the healthier and more nutritious products they want.

4. Minimal investment

Retrofitting AirFry with an existing impingement oven is simple and requires minimal investment. It works with standard batter and breading application systems and is sized to meet your production requirements.

5. Innovative oil management

Interested in managing rising costs of oil and reliability of its supply? AirFry uses highly accurate Spray Dynamics® oil application equipment to provide complete and uniform coverage to your products — keeping oil use to an absolute minimum.

1990’s

Deep fried food is wildly popular for its crisp and crunch texture. Electric deep fryers make their way into households

EVOLUTION OF THE HEALTHY FRIED FOOD

2010

Europe introduces first benchtop air fryer

2016

Oprah’s praise of air fryers leads to huge boost in sales

2020’s

Air fryers explode in popularity during pandemic lockdowns

2022

Heat and Control develops the AirFry System to help food manufacturers take advantage of growing air fried foods market

AirFry System by Heat and Control

Flavour Trends and Seasonal Campaigns - Are You Ready to Respond?

Consumer demand for new and different flavours is rapid, and relentless. But how quickly can your operation respond? Onmachine seasoning (OMS) systems make it easy to adjust production efficiently, so you can respond quickly to trends and seasonal campaigns.

Looking for the best available seasoning solutions for your snacks operation? Our OMS solutions will give you all the tools you need — to perfectly season, salt, flavour, and coat all manner of products.

Industry’s Most Efficient and Uniform Coverage

Our OMS solutions are proven to achieve industry-leading accuracy and seasoning control. Our patented OMS application method achieves the industry’s most efficient and uniform coverage — and significant savings and flexibility — by applying seasoning to your snack products just before they enter the weigher.

FastBack Revolution Seasoning System

Our FastBack® Revolution® Seasoning System (RSS) incorporates multiple innovations in a complete system approach. It delivers consistent seasoning coverage with little seasoning waste — and the ability to produce consistent product – every item, every time.

RSS delivers superior seasoning performance by combining — our patented dynamic AccuFlavor™ Tumble Drum — the efficiency of the Modular Dust Collection System — and the advanced FastBack 260E-G3 into one compact, cost-efficient, standalone unit.

This innovative system is designed to overcome all the common seasoning challenges, at the weigher, so you can create better tasting products for your customers. Ideal applications include potato chips, snack foods, crackers, tortilla chips, nuts and trail mix.

INCREASED PROCESSING UP-TIME SUSTAINABILITY REDUCED WAREHOUSE SPACE

Keep your line running at optimal levels while a flavour change is made

Achieve maximum efficiency by using less energy, less space, and less raw material usage

OMS provides just-in-time production capability and reduces the need for warehouse space