Go BackWe are currently on site at Castle MacLellan’s pâté processing plant at Kirkcudbright with responsibility for the design and installation of two blast chills, meat chill, vegetable chill, two new dairy chills, a blast topping chill room, a new topping blast freezer, defrost room, a freezer room and a chill store as well as prep holding chill, temperature controlled holding room and an alcohol store.
The newly installed air handling units use a sock air distribution system to minimise pollution.
Meanwhile the control system for the defrost room utilises a Eurotherm Nanodac twin loop controller with a custom designed control logic program. This bespoke programme was designed by ACE as there is no proprietary defrost room controller available.
The control system utilises the advanced Eurotherm PID algorithm providing high performance and reliability to the process. Functionality includes overshoot inhibition (cutbacks); compensation for power fluctuations using power feed-forward; linear, fan, oil and water cooling.
In recent years ACE Refrigeration has become the leading refrigeration partner to many top food processing companies with expertise in the fish and seafood industry, fruit and vegetable sectors, bakeries, dairy, eggs, poultry and meat as well as food distribution, wholesale and logistics companies.
ACE teams have carried out indemnified design and installation projects for cold rooms and freezer rooms, ice generators, chilled production facilities, Hydro Coolers, water chillers, spiral freezers, blast chillers and blast freezers.
Our refrigeration plant also incorporates temperature monitoring systems, which are both HACCP accredited, BRC compliant and conform to Food Safety and Inspection Service standards.
During the last 30 years Castle MacLellan has grown from a small operation producing several tubs of pâté a day in the back of a small delicatessen, to a major national force supplying supermarkets the length and breadth of the country offering a range of meat, fish and vegetarian pâtés.
