Coolers

Management at Lyco Mfg. has been involved with cooking and cooling food products for 50 years. The industries we serve include the Canning and Freezing of vegetables, Dry Beans and Prepared Meals. Prior to 1988 the heating and cooling of pouched products was done mostly on belts for heating and cooling applications using water deluge systems. Manufacturers of film for pouched products have traditionally recommended belts as the only way to heat or cool pouched products. Their motive for doing that was because inferior film could easily fail and develop leaks.

Customers tell us that they would rather find defective pouches before they leave their factory than reach their customers. Lyco destroyed the myth that pouch processing had to be done on belts when they started heating and cooling pouches in their rotary drum machines. We knew that the most efficient method of transferring heat was submerging an item in hot or cold water. We discovered that gentle agitation reduced cooling times by 40% to 50%. We can use gentle mechanical agitation with robust pouch material. For more fragile pouches we developed a patented process called “Hydro-Flow Agitation” which uses water to keep pouches held in suspension gently rolling around. Either method treats pouches the same and can achieve the same final temperatures as cold as 40°F. or lower.

Lyco rotary drum pasteurizers and coolers take up much less floor space and use less energy than belts. One of our early systems was at a large State of Tennessee facility in Nashville in 1995 and has been running soup items trouble free for over 20 years. We have “Simulators” which are compact machines that handle products exactly the same way production size machines (up to 28′ long) do which accurately predict process parameters and new recipes. These machines are on a skid package that can be sent to your facility with technicians to test your own products on site.