'Meeting Customer Needs', a classic term from the Marketing and Sales handbooks.

When an off the shelf machine couldn't be found - Winkworth as specialists in designing bespoke solutions in mixing were approached. We listened, understood and applied our considerable experience to produce an ideal solution. The result - Now the Melt Vessel is available off the shelf!

"In the initial planning stages, we had to ensure that the Melt Vessel would be capable of melting solid fats, butter, margarine or lard into a manageable form without clarifying or condition changes. It needed to maintain all the qualities and properties of the original source material to retain the integrity and quality of the finished product", explains Craig Dodd, Design & Applications Engineer at Winkworth.

The Melt Vessel works by gently warming blocks of cold stored product through the vessel's high surface area, oil or water optional heated cross bars. This is critical and fine temperature control provides rapid fat melting at low temperatures. This minimises fat degradation and in particular rancidity and preserve functionality in many cases. Typical applications include lard, butter, chocolate, margarine, cocoa butter and wax.

Features which come as standard include:

• Fabricated in Stainless Steel
• Precise temperature control - across melt bars
• Lightweight removable lid
• Pivoting, ribbed and ergonomic loading trays
• Hygienic design - easy clean

"Food manufacturing companies will find the Melt Vessel beneficial for improving the efficiency of their processing operation as it allows for unattended melting to achieve a consistent condition and it provides a low cost, low risk solution to pre-conditioning blocks of fat for onward processing" said Richard Walker, Winkworth Application Specialist.

If you would like further information about the standard Melt Vessel or to dicuss your bespoke needs, please contact us on 0118 988 3551.

Or alternatively you can email us at info@mixer.co.uk.