Ultra-fast meat crust freezing - now in a compact footprint

When your goal is clean, consistent portioning, crust-freezing is not just a step in the process. It’s where yield, throughput, and hygiene can be won or lost.

Get more profit from every cut

Our Frigoscandia ADVANTEC™ impingement freezers set the standard in crust-freezing for pork and beef portioning. They deliver a uniform, ultra-fast crust freeze that makes logs and other portioning formats easier to portion, slice, dice, and handle. For products up to 200 mm, ADVANTEC supports a smooth inline process, reducing the need for manual steps between chilling and cutting.

If you are still relying on cryogenic gas freezing, ADVANTEC gives you a modern alternative that can match or exceed cryogenic results at a much lower operating cost, and with more flexibility. It integrates seamlessly into your portioning line, helping you maximize portioning yield and improve utilization, consistency, and throughput.

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Introducing the ADVANTEC™ Narrow

Meat processors have told us they wanted the benefits and performance of impingement crust-freezing, but needed a more streamlined freezer that could fit into tighter layouts.

ADVANTEC Narrow is our answer. It keeps the high capacity and exceptional impingement performance of our standard ADVANTEC freezer, while reducing the footprint for easier integration into existing portioning and slicing lines. If you are moving away from cryogenic equipment, it is an ideal step into a more modern, lower cost method designed for continuous, high-throughput operation.

  • Ideal for surface stabilization prior to portioning meat up to 200 mm
  • Saves up to 75% on running costs
  • Backed by 60 years of freezing expertise

Maximize portioning yield

Even crust-freezing ensures beautiful, clean cuts

Same performance, smaller footprint

Save valuable floor space with the new ADVANTEC Narrow

Uniformity and quality at speed

Fast freezing keeps your line moving and products on-spec

We’re extremely proud that ADVANTEC Narrow delivers full ADVANTEC impingement performance in a smaller footprint—helping processors cut costs, maintain quality, and add modern freezing even when space is tight.

JBT Marel Torbjorn Persson

Torbjörn Persson, Director of Global Sales Support and Product Line Management for Frigoscandia Freezers
JBT Marel

Crust Freezing Pork Products

The leaders in impingement technology

We pioneered impingement freezing in the 1990s for a leading QSR processor in the United States that needed a better way to freeze hamburger patties fast, consistently, and at lower cost than cryogenic gas. That same breakthrough is still one of the best ways to deliver fast, uniform heat removal for high-throughput processing today.

Impingement works by directing thousands of high-velocity air jets at the top and bottom surfaces of the product. These jets strip away the insulating boundary layer of air that holds heat around the food. Heat transfer increases dramatically, and freezing happens in a fraction of the time you would expect from conventional air systems.

The result is quality at speed that matches or exceeds many cryogenic outcomes, with more flexibility, stronger hygiene control, and lower running costs.

Crust ADVANTEC BEEF SIRLOIN

Cut running costs by up to 75% compared to cryogenic freezing

Cryogenic freezing can be fast, but the ongoing cost of gas adds up quickly. When you move to an energy-efficient ADVANTEC impingement system, you replace that variable gas spend with a more stable, controllable operating cost.

ADVANTEC freezers can cut running costs by up to 75% compared to cryogenic gas freezing. That change goes straight to your bottom line, while also contributing to more sustainable operations.

Crust Freezing Ribeye Beef

Improve portioning yield, consistency, and throughput

Crust-freezing helps portioning equipment do its job better. The right crust gives you cleaner cuts, more consistent portion weights, and fewer slowdowns in slicing and dicing.

By removing heat rapidly without stressing the product, dehydration is minimized and yield is protected. You get more sellable product, more consistent results, and the confidence to run at high throughput without trading away quality.

Built for complete line performance

Our ADVANTEC freezers are designed to fit seamlessly into your complete portioning line. They connect easily with other JBT Marel equipment, so you can build your ideal inline process that drives maximum yield, strong hygiene, and consistent portion quality from start to finish.

For example, ADVANTEC is a natural fit in front of our TREIF V-Cut series of volumetric portioning machines, helping stabilize raw material for cleaner, more accurate cutting at speed. Slicers and dicers like our TREIF FALCON evolution and TREIF HAWK also benefit from crust-frozen pork or beef for improved control and consistency.

Proven expertise from the pioneers of impingement freezing

Choosing a crust-freezing platform is a long-term decision, and results depend on more than the machine alone. With more than 60 years of freezing expertise, we help you translate performance into real portioning outcomes.

From early evaluation and line integration to installation, training, and ongoing service, our teams support you through each stage. You get practical guidance, responsive maintenance, and know-how that comes from building and advancing impingement freezing for real-world processors.

Talk to an expert, and see how much you could save

Request a meeting with our experts, and we’ll learn about your goals, challenges, and current setup. Then we’ll recommend the right ADVANTEC solution, and calculate what you could save by switching to ADVANTEC or ADVANTEC Narrow. If you want more detail first, you can also download the brochure  or read the article.

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