DSI Dantech

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DSI Dantech is the world’s first singular supplier of mechanical, cryogenic, and plate technology for the food industry. The company believes in a high quality of food with staff priding themselves in the strength of their technologies. The ambition is to change the industry with innovative and cutting-edge products that benefit both the environment and customers’ budget.

DSIDantech

builds on the strong foundations of three former organisa

tions: Belgian Cryogenic Equipment and Services NV, Dantech Freezing Systems A/S, and DSI Freezing Solutions A/S. While the companies had strong positions within their respective fields, they joined forces in May 2021 with a new name and one goal: to change the market for thermal treatment food.

CEO Lars Priess stated that it was “important to create one common plat form and approach to the market”, which lead to the birth of DSI Dantech. With a new brand identity and matching web site, the aim is to stand out in the industry.

Today, the company is a market leader with a global reach and 325 employees

spread across seven main produc tion facilities and addi tional sales offices in Europe, the United States and Asia. Combined, the facilities have 100 years of knowledge within freezing, cooling, and heating solutions and more than 10,000 solutions installed across the globe. With this expertise and a constantly growing range of products, it’s safe to say that DSI Dantech is here to stay.

The strength of technology

The range of thermal treatment technology offered by DSI Dantech falls under three categories. First, there is mechanical freezing that uses a circulating refrigerant to reduce air temperature sur rounding

the food; while plate freezing is a doubl contact freezing method, where a coolant passes through the plates and freezes them quickly. Food is then placed in the freezer in between the frozen plates Lastly, DSI Dantech also offers cryogenic technologies, in which gas, usually in the form of Nitrogen or CO 2 , is sprayed across the food to instantly freeze it.

The promise is a single supplier for any freezing, cooling, and heating solutions, and with these technologies, DSI Dantech lives up to that promise. Among its products are mechanical spiral freezers, chillers, and ovens that are specially designed to minimise the cost per kilo treated product. With a unique and efficient airflow, DSI Dantech’s spirals provide faster freezing times that result in a higher quality of the

food’s quality and yield, as well as max imising the food safety. The spirals also have an open and compact design, which makes them easier to clean and maintain, avoiding corrosion of the material.

Another of the company’s stand out products is the IQF Tunnel Systems, which are ideal for freezing, cooling, and heating food without having to compromise the freshness or natural appearance of frozen food products. By conveying the food through a tunnel of circulating air, the thermal effects are efficient and gentle, so it doesn’t affect the cell structure of the food too harshly. This helps improve product quality and yield with, for instance , significantly optimised drip loss. Muchlike the spiral freezers, the tunnel systems are designed to minimise the cost

per kilo treated product and ensure a low energy consumption.

Mr Priess stated that one of the crucial aspects of the company is to “help pro mote sustainability”. According to him, by collaborating with customers and offering new technological solutions, DSI Dantech can help with a “significant energy saving while minimising product loss and optimising food quality”. This can be done by, for example, replacing traditional blast freezers with new IQF spiral, tunnel or plate technology, which save energy while minimising product loss and secure a high food quality.

While DSI Dantech offers innovative tech nologies, it’s the customisable thermal solu tions that make them unique. Every detail is based on product characteristics and

its customers’ capacities, facility space and line layout, but most importantly, DSI Dantech makes it possible to combine different thermal tech nologies, so you get everything you need from a single supplier. From freezing to cooling and heating.

Strong relations

It’s evident that DSI Dantech takes great pride in working closely together with customers as well as suppliers and other key stakeholders.

“One of our three core values is strong relationships,” Mr Priess states. “On the supplier side, we have a mixture of large international supplies and smaller local suppliers that very often offer significant advantages when it comes to flexibility.”

To the company, a good collaboration makes it easier to develop the right solutions for the customers and thereby honouring DSI Dantech’s purpose of opti mising results and contributing to the protection of the environment.

Reflecting on Covid-19, Mr Priess men tioned how amazing the entirety of DSI Dantech handled the pandemic as a team.

“Our own employees have shown fan tastic support and flexibility during the pandemic,” he acknowledged. “In cer tain parts of Denmark, where we have our main production facilities, they were under tight restrictions, but there were a lot of clever ideas and a collective can-do attitude from our employees during this time.”

that strong relationships are prominent throughout the company, and not only when it comes to customers.

Mapping out the future

The company’s future plans include both expansion and a higher focus on sustain ability. Most notably, DSI Dantech is actively seeking to increase its production and pres ence in the United States “to be closer to the market both to provide better and faster service to our customers but also to help avoid transportation cost and environmental impact”.

Mr Priess also revealed the company is currently researching and investing both time and energy into automation.

By automating more products, DSI Dantech would make it easier to lower energy consumption.

also actively working on mapping the total CO 2 usage of all aspects of the business”. By looking into and adjusting its own carbon footprint, DSI Dantech is fully committed to its sustainability agenda. For future endeavors, Mr Priess informed that the company has identified nine core markets to which DSI Dantech will endeavor to excel further. He concluded by saying: “At DSI Dantech, we always have an appetite for further acquisitions.”

With the cutting-edge technology to back up global ambitions, DSI Dantech is definitely a name to look out for. n

Mr Lars Priess, CEO