6 ways to optimise your commercial ice cream operations

When it comes to ice cream manufacturing solutions and expertise, Tetra Pak has got you covered. Here are six of the many ways we can help you optimise your operations and support the growth of your ice cream business.

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1.     Upgrades for existing ice cream lines

To quickly keep up with growing demand or expand your offering, we can help with pre-defined upgrades of your ice cream manufacturing equipment. Upgrades improve cost competitiveness and operational performance by boosting equipment capability, efficiency, sustainability and safety.

For example, the Tetra Pak® Decoration Depositing unit is an upgrade that enables you to create precise and exciting decorations on the surface of ice cream products and bring a large variety of new exciting products to market – without the need to invest heavily.

We also offer retrofittable upgrade kits that can strengthen your existing solution with performance enhancements; protecting your original investment, including replacing equipment that is no longer available or has become obsolete.

2.     Robust, easy-to-operate and maintain equipment

We offer a complete portfolio of equipment for ice cream production – both standalone components and lines. They are designed and constructed to the highest standards for quality, durability, performance and hygiene, with special attention to safe and easy operation and maintenance.

Our standalone components will optimise your existing ice cream production line. For example, the patented start-up sequence of our market-leading Tetra Pak® Continuous Freezers helps you minimise waste, while the design of the dasher and beater gives your ice cream the best possible mouthfeel.

Tetra Pak® Ingredient Dosers, meanwhile, gently handle inclusions such as fruit pieces, nuts, candies – and even sticky jam and cookie dough. The specially designed hopper and auger and patented star-shaped outlet prevent lumping, assure even distribution and consistent product quality.

Our best-practice lines – for filling, moulding or extrusion – are standardised and based on the best proven solutions in the ice cream industry. Reliable and proven, they are highly flexible and upgradable and offer you high yield and uptime, with low total cost of ownership.

3.     Digitalisation and automation solutions for ice cream production

Whatever your starting point or your goals, we can help you take your operation to the next level through our long-established expertise in ice cream production and proven world-class, future-ready solutions.

Our experienced experts will build a digitalisation roadmap for you. Based on your corporate strategy, your technology and the systems you have in place, we perform an analysis to identify our common starting point, the gaps and the opportunities we have ahead of us. This approach helps us understand which areas of your ice cream manufacturing should be prioritised.

Tetra Pak® PlantMaster is an automation and information solution for your entire commercial ice cream manufacturing operation. The solution, which has been installed 1,250 times around the world, is flexible, scalable and customisable thereby making it future proof.

4.     Less waste, more efficiency 

For the specialised production of ice cream and all its complexities, we provide cutting-edge digital tools and solutions that reduce waste and improve line efficiency – while making sure your ice cream products both look and taste delicious.

  • Ice Cream Line Insight TM is an adaptable and easy-to-use solution that provides fact-based reports from hundreds of data points spread across your entire production line. It enables you to use relevant real-time and historical data to improve efficiency, reduce waste and secure food safety.
  • Ice Cream Video Care enhances troubleshooting with 16 cameras positioned along the line, including behind safety covers and inside the hardening tunnel, where visuals are normally obscured.
  • Ice Cream Lane Assist and Ice Cream Cone Assist work on ice cream much like lane assist works in cars, by reducing human error so products stay in the correct position with consistent ingredient distribution.

5.     The ingredients you need 

The ingredients you choose for your ice cream can have a bigger effect on your operations than you might think. For example, choosing the right fats, milk powders, stabilisers and emulsifiers for your mix can boost the efficiency of the manufacturing process, and at the same time improve product quality. We have long-standing connections with several of the world’s leading producers of ice cream ingredients and supplies, which gives you easy access to all ingredients and consumables from one single source. Among the items we can supply are:
 
  • Wooden sticks and spoons in different sizes, designs, grades, and materials; bundled or loose and hot-stamped with your logo.
  • A variety of different flavoured biscuits, including crunchy or soft brownies featuring customer logos.
  • Coatings and centre fillings in a range of flavours and types for dipping, enrobing, spray coating and pencil filling.
  • Cones and sleeves, shaped to customer needs, with or without inclusions and in the right packaging.

6.     Guaranteed performance 

Optimising operations can mean many different things, but if you are looking to improve your output, quality or the sustainability of your manufacturing operations, we can support your efforts. Starting with an opportunity analysis and benchmarking against your industry peers, we set tangible goals and then work together to reach them.  With Tetra Pak® Plant Perform we offer an outcome-based pricing model, and performance is guaranteed.

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