From chicken nuggets to hot wings, from marinated chicken breasts to sliced deli turkey breast, Americans love their poultry. From initial stunning to fresh and further processing to final water treatment, Messer has the portfolio of gas technologies and experience you need to get more, quality product safely out the door.

Industry-Leading Poultry Chilling and Freezing Technology

Our family of cryogenic freezing and chilling systems enables us to implement temperature control solutions at any step of your process. Whether you're looking to add a new production line or add throughput to an existing one, our experienced team can help conserve labor and increase productivity while improving the security of your cryogen supply.

 

We increased production from 4,500 lb/hr average production to rates to 6,600 lb/hr, with peaks of up to 8,000 lb/hr. These production increases help give us the flexibility to respond to demand increases and tight labor markets.

Wesley Simpson, Plant Manager, Tyson Foods

Poultry Freezing Solutions from IQF to Spirals


From small startups to large-scale operations, Messer’s pioneering cryogenic freezing solutions can help you achieve your production goals. 

Messer’s proven industry workhorse, our configurable family of spirals offers high dependability, easy maintenance, and large freezing capacity in a small footprint that easily integrates into your process. 

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Shorter in length, our unique high-capacity design occupies less space on the production floor (typically 60% less floor space than conventional tunnel freezers for the same production rate). 

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To boost existing mechanical freezing capacity during peak loads or production increases, many of our customers utilize our CRYOASSIST system to rapidly crust-freeze food products, locking in valuable moisture prior to further processing or freezing.

Our Messer Wave Impingement Freezer is perfect for chicken wings, diced chicken, and a variety of other Individually Quick Frozen (IQF) poultry products. Learn how Tyson Foods converted their CO2 tunnel to the latest IQF nitrogen solution.

Wave Impingement Freezer

Advanced Chilling Systems for Poultry


Our precise liquid nitrogen chilling solutions alleviate production bottlenecks and CO2 supply uncertainty while preventing dangerous manual labor with dry ice. 

Messer’s other leading poultry chilling solutions include: 

11.18.25 IPPE 2026 Press Release


The new Messer KwikChiller
technology delivers high-capacity chilling with nitrogen when floor space is at a premium. Developed in collaboration with poultry processors to chill fresh poultry in combo bins, successful installations demonstrated:

  • Yield improvement results at a high production capacity.
  • Rapid, uniform temperature control for ready-to-ship product.
  • Nitrogen chilling with an integrated exhaust, a safer alternative to shoveling CO2 pellets.
  • Products: whole breasts, split breasts, tenders, trim and wings.

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If processors prefer to use CO2, the Messer Combo Chiller also eliminates CO2 pellet handling, reduces labor, and removes cooling variability. The weight-based CO₂ dosing system delivers accurate, consistent temperatures for even product distribution for downstream processing and fewer product returns. The on-demand CO₂ cuts sublimation losses, removes pellet storage and improves safety with a dedicated exhaust.

With over 150 installations, these proven systems use liquid nitrogen injected through proprietary precision KRYOJECTOR® nozzles to chill poultry with cutting-edge efficiency. This hygienic system provides batch-to-batch consistency, prevents plugging, and retrofits simply into your existing system. 

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This patented Cross-Flow Tunnel Freezer utilizes high-velocity crossflow cryogenic gases to achieve rapid chilling and freezing of hot and steamy products.

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Why choose Messer for Food Grade CO2 and Nitrogen for Fresh and Further Processing?


As an industry leader in poultry processing, we continue to support the National Chicken Council, National Turkey Federation, Southwest Meat Association, and the Poultry Federation. By listening to our customers and conducting product testing onsite or at the Messer Technical Center, we work to develop and refine differentiated technologies that solve the industry’s latest challenges.

Our latest innovative technologies are backed by:

  1. Messer’s decades of hands-on experience chilling and freezing poultry products.
  2. End-to-end process support, from selecting the right solution to turnkey installation.
  3. A robust nationwide gas supply network.
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