The frozen food market is booming and projected to reach a value of more than $282 billion globally by 2023. Because food-production facilities reach so many people, it's important for them to have the sanitary cold food storage equipment they need to ensure consumer health and safety while keeping energy expenditures down and costs low. Freezer spacers offer an ideal solution.
About Freezer Spacers
Our freezer spacers are easy to use — place one between each layer of goods as you stack a pallet. By doing so, you can dramatically improve the circulation of cold air throughout the entire load. What's more, freezer spacers can reduce blast freezing times by up to 30 percent. They're also easy to clean and sanitize, so you can use them again and again. We offer freezer spacers for sale made from high-quality materials, including 100% recyclable plastic and sturdy aluminum. You can choose spacers that comply with FDA regulations regarding safe food handling and storage.
What Types of Freezers Spacers Are Available at Material Handling?
Cherry's Material Handling, the e-commerce extension of Cherry's Industrial Equipment, offers two types of freezer spacers for sale: plastic and aluminum.
Plastic
Our plastic freezer spacers work well for freezing perishable items such as food, meat and poultry. They include raised areas with spaces that enable cold air to flow between containers freely for quick, uniform freezing. They're also easy to clean and sanitize via power washing and wiping, allowing you to use them repeatedly. Plastic freezer spacer options include:
- Egg crate: Egg crate freezer spacers are lightweight and nestable and can handle extreme temperatures.
- MAXI-design: Allows up to three more times the airflow than standard spacers for faster freezing.
- Open-profile: The open design is ideally suited for blast freezing applications.
- Structural foam: Features thermoplastic injection molding that increases rigidity and facilitates stacking.
Aluminum
Our aluminum freezer spacers offer exceptional durability while allowing maximum air circulation. Aluminum is a conductive material, so it enables the air to move more quickly into the food for faster freezing. What's more, the material can withstand higher temperatures than plastic freezer spacer materials, which makes it easier to clean and sanitize. Despite its relatively lightweight, aluminum is surprisingly strong — you can use these freezer spacers with your heaviest loads.
Health and Safety Benefits of Using Freezer Spacers for Sanitary Storage of Frozen Products
When you're considering how to keep meat and poultry cold — and keep many other perishable products at the correct temperatures — sanitary freezer spacers offer several health and safety benefits. They are useful in a variety of food-related industries, including cold food storage, beverage processing, frozen food storage and dairy production. Both types of freezer spacers, plastic and aluminum, provide benefits for the sanitary storage of frozen products.
1. Germ Resistance
Aluminum and plastic freezer spacers resist bacteria and viruses. Materials such as wood absorb moisture and have many pores and cracks, offering a hospitable environment in which microorganisms can flourish. Alternatively, plastic and aluminum are inhospitable to the growth of germs. Their smooth surfaces keep microorganisms from finding footholds where they can thrive and reproduce.
2. Efficient Cleaning and Sanitizing
Cleaning and sanitizing aluminum and plastic freezer spacers is easy. You can power-wash them with water and detergent and then wipe them down with a sanitizing product that's safe for use around food products. Because freezer spacers are so efficient to clean, employees will be able to remove contaminants easily. And if freezer spacers will be used to store different types of products, their ease of cleaning and sanitizing also helps cut down on cross-contamination.
3. Reduced Disease Transmission
Because they are easy to clean and resist microorganisms, freezer spacers help minimize the spread of disease. They are unlikely to harbor contaminants, and if a freezer spacer does become contaminated, a quick washing and disinfection can get it clean again. These features mean sanitary freezer spacers are unlikely to spread bacteria and viruses between workers or between people and products.
4. Reduced Foodborne Illness
Using plastic freezer spacers in the food industry helps control the growth of bacteria in food by providing reliable temperature control because of the unobstructed airflow they allow. Preventing the growth of bacteria by keeping foods at consistent, safe temperatures helps reduce the chances of food spoilage and the likelihood of foodborne illness.
5. Increased Public Confidence
Disease outbreaks related to food products have been in the news often enough for many people to worry about the possibility of becoming ill from contaminated food. Using sanitary freezer spacers allows food-handling facilities to ensure the public that their products are safe to consume.
Why Choose Material Handling as Your Freezer Spacer Distributor?
Cherry's Material Handling enables you to purchase freezer spacers and other material handling equipment online at competitive prices. We cater to the needs of small- to mid-size companies — you can order in small quantities if that works best for your operation. You'll also find that buying from us is a fast, hassle-free process. Our compact, easy-to-navigate website makes it easy to find the ideal product. The product demonstration videos on our site are also available to assist you in your research of the products we offer.
We also provide reliable service and support every step of the way. We don't take a "cookie-cutter" approach to selling equipment. Our team includes well-trained, knowledgeable product specialists who will take the time to learn about your operation. After identifying your material handling challenge, we'll recommend a product that solves 100 percent of the problem. We can even provide custom solutions if an "off-the-shelf" unit doesn't quite meet your needs.
Explore Our Complete Selection of Freezer Spacers Today
Take a moment to browse our current inventory of plastic and aluminum freezer spacers for sale. If you have questions or need assistance, feel free to give one of our product specialists a call at 224-435-5234 or contact us online at your convenience.
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