The scale of our production is 60 Tonnes per 24 hrs
The bagging machine which can bag 20kg or 3.5 kg ice as required being set up for a 20kg run. The hole in the wall, at the top, is where augers bring ice from the bins and slide it down the chute, as shown in the picture.
Ozone is produced and monitored before being added to the water. Ozone is used to sanitize the water which then breaks down to form oxygen in the water.
Ice is formed by passing water in tubes with cold gas around the outside of the tubes, freezing the water into ice as it goes through the tubes. A rotating cutter slices the ice as it drops into the machine onto an auger. The ice is stored in bins in the freezer.
Safety
This is the high-speed printer stamping on the date and time, and a unique number for identification purposes.
A sample of what was printed. Shown is the day /month/year, the hours, minutes, seconds and a unique number allowing us to identify every single bag.
Bags of ice are packed, shrink wrapped on pallets and bar coded for tracking purposes.
A hand held scanner scanning a pallet of ice.
Each pallet is scanned and the data of when the ice was made, how long it was in the freezer, which truck the ice was loaded on and which driver delivered the ice are then down loaded into the computer for tracking purposes.
The introduction of this new technology has been bought about as a result of the new Food Safety regulations implemented in December 2002. Our ability to conform to the new regulations ensures our ability to sell Coolit Ice in a growing market - Supermarkets.