Developed and designed as an answer to specific market and customer needs, the ADVANTEC Narrow offers high-speed freezing of flat products up to 25mm thick, and chill and crust freeze of products up to 200mm thick—such as meat, seafood and fish— where freezing in a quick and highly-efficient way is vital.

Using air jet technology, the ADVANTEC system reportedly freezes foods in minutes, preserving product quality, taste and mouthfeel, and avoiding the potential damage caused by drip-loss and ice crystals. JBT Corporation says the process minimizes dehydration and maximizes yield, while also increasing product shelf-life.

The Narrow offers a solution for processors trying to cope with the rapidly increasing costs of cryogenic gas freezing. Its smaller dimensions allows processors that had been using cryogenic freezing equipment—typically with a smaller width than the standard ADVANTEC—to replace their cryogenic gas freezers with a more modern, full-impingement method, for better and longer production hours, and a more cost-effective freezing solution.

The ADVANTEC Narrow comes with all the same high-capacity performance and advanced impingement technology as the standard ADVANTEC Impingement freezer, according to the company.