Meat and poultry processors
Boost processing quality and uptime
Uncontrolled humidity and condensation compromise food and worker safety, and can cause production slowdowns. The solution? Optimized dehumidification. Eliminate maintenance delays and shutdowns and ensure hygiene and quality at your meat and poultry processing plant with a customized Munters dehumidifier for food processing.
Control moisture to ensure product quality
Preventing condensation is crucial in the design and operation of meat processing facilities. By effectively managing water vapor and directing dry air towards the ceiling, the objective is to lower the dew point, eliminating condensation, reducing the risk of microbial growth, and significantly cutting down sanitation dry-out time. This not only ensures product integrity but also maintains compliance with regulatory standards such as HACCP, which guides efforts to maintain the highest standards of food quality and hygiene.
Temperature control is insufficient since some microbes can survive extreme temperatures. Humidity control, keeping relative humidity in the 40-60% range, inhibits all microbial growth and reduces virus transmission. Sanitation, temperature control and optimized meat processing dehumidification solutions eliminate condensation and prevent the growth of bacteria and mold.
Control climate to maximize uptime and safety
Increase the throughput of your production process by taking control of your climate with a Munters dehumidifier for food processing. Ensure food safety and shorter defrost cycles and sanitation cycles. Munters dehumidifiers dry out the cleaned process room overnight, eliminating mold and other health dangers. Increase meat and poultry production throughput and quality when you add Munters climate control to your process.
Applications for meat and poultry processors
Optimize processing humidity levels
A stable, hygienic climate all year round is vital to ensuring quality and hygiene during meat and poultry processing. Desiccant dehumidification prevents condensation from forming, particularly in refrigerated processing areas, eliminating product contamination caused by contact with condensate. A Munters dehumidifier for food processing helps achieve the critical hygiene standards required to secure regulatory compliance, such as HACCP, while maximizing product quality.
Control moisture in your cold storage
Undesirable moisture in cold storage areas and freezers leads to frost buildup, dangerous working conditions and higher risk of food safety issues. Melting ice or pooled condensate can damage products and promote bacterial growth. Cold storage condensate can reduce profit margins and adversely affect customer relations.
The answer? Remove moisture before it enters the cold storage area. A Munters dehumidifier for food processing sends dry air to the ceiling, which helps eliminate maintenance events and shutdowns caused by uncontrolled humidity. Optimized climate control improves product quality and increases output. Munters tailored dehumidification systems help reduce contamination and keep cold storage working safely and efficiently.
Since meat and pultry are processed and packaged in cold premises, condensation easily forms on ceilings and cold surfaces. Production workers can spend a significant amount of time removing condensation from overhead pipes and ceilings. If not managed, condensation can drip onto packaged products, causing bacteria to form.
Munters desiccant dehumidifiers for food processing help control humidity by removing moisture from air. Dry air pumped out to the ceiling can reduce sanitation cycles and condensation issues while enhancing food safety and production. Condensation removal reduces microbial growth and improves working conditions.
Munters provides innovative dehumidification solutions to help maintain the optimal humidity levels in your meat maturation room. Aging meat promotes fungal growth, forming a crust on the meat. However, high humidity levels accelerate fungal growth, thickening the crust and promoting product loss due to trimming.
With Munters advanced dehumidification technology, you can control the precise humidity levels in your maturation room, improving product quality. Trust Munters to optimize your meat maturation process and enhance the overall meat flavor.
Select the right food processing dehumidifier
The desiccant rotor is the standard for all high-performance industrial dehumidifiers. It allows the dehumidifier to remove moisture to the levels required by the process. Desiccant rotors are the most energy-efficient method for creating humidity-controlled environments.
Desiccant rotors may look similar, but when it comes to performance, they couldn’t be more different. Munters has designed a rotor which adsorbs more water and performs more consistently than the competition. This means higher energy efficiency, a more compact physical footprint and lower operating costs.
Munters will meet your needs
With decades of experience leading the dehumidification industry, Munters knows what it takes to provide customers with superior service and solutions. Munters dehumidifiers for food processing can deliver consistent and precise environmental control to meet various specifications throughout your plant.
Each facility may require a different solution based on location, climate, equipment and ingredients. Munters is here to help. We offer a complimentary site review to better understand your needs. We can then tailor a solution for your process, ensuring high product quality, GMP/HACCP compliance, energy savings and increased throughput.
