Custom Food Processing Systems
GEM Equipment, established in 1969, grew up serving the Pacific Northwest french fry potato industry. Services furnished include engineering, manufacturing, installation and rebuilding of food processing equipment. This equipment is custom designed for specific applications. GEM has manufactured large belt blanchers for the french fry potato industry since 1975, fryers since 1985 and batter application systems since 1990. Other items in the company’s product line include conveyors, tote dumpers, hydro pump systems, fryer filtration systems and Flodin Rock Traps. Computational Fluid Dynamics is used to assure that this company’s french fry fryers perform as expected. GEM Equipment is widely recognized for high quality after sales service.
Featured Product - Rotary Blancher
A rotary blancher consists of a reel, which is an auger wrapped with a perforated skin, rotating in a tank of water. An infeed chute drops the product into the reel. Paddles, fastened to the skin and reel end at the discharge, lift the product out of the water and transfers it to the discharge chute. Rotary blanchers perform well for free flowing product. Most rotary blanchers operate with the bottom third of the reel immersed. If the product sinks, a center tube design, using bearings at each end to support the reel, makes it possible to operate with the bottom half of the reel immersed, providing considerable higher capacity.
