A new IQF freezer leads to gains in productivity for a frozen foods processor.
Since the mid-‘60s, family-owned, Lincoln Park, MI-based Pierino Frozen Foods, Inc. has built its reputation on quality. It now sells a range of gourmet pasta products across the foodservice, industrial and retail segments.
But when Gianni Guglielmetti, the president of the company, decided to upgrade its gourmet pasta operation, he could not have foreseen the 2015 egg crisis. Pierino purchases Grade A eggs in bulk to make pasta noodles. Because eggs have become increasingly expensive since the avian bird flu crisis began, improving processing efficiency is more important than ever for Pierino Frozen Foods.