When Gianni Guglielmetti, the new President of Pierino Frozen Foods, Inc. decided to upgrade his gourmet pasta operation with a new cryogenic freezer from Linde LLC, he could not have foreseen the egg crisis coming, or fully appreciated the advantage that the new freezer now offers.
Based in Lincoln Park, Michigan, Pierino Frozen Foods purchases ‘Grade A’ eggs in bulk to make pasta noodles, and incoming ingredient quality remains paramount to success. But there is no controlling commodity pricing. Since December, more than 48 million birds have been lost in avian flu control efforts — all of which has pushed egg prices skywards.
Guglielmetti first began exploring a new way to individually quick freeze (IQF) in 2014 after learning about a new rolling-wave IQF freezer from Linde LLC, the CRYOLINE® CW (CRYOWAVE®) IQF freezer, which had proven successful for individually quick freezing diced poultry, meatballs, mushrooms, and other foods. The special advantage the CRYOWAVE freezer now gives Pierino Frozen Foods though is not just quality and productivity, but competitiveness, he says.
“Commodity prices on eggs have just gone through the roof, so it’s nice to have some efficiencies in the facility to combat that,” says Gianni Guglielmetti.
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