Freezing, Chilling, and Stunning Poultry with Cryogenic Solutions

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Why Choose Messer?

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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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:

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.

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 and National Turkey 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:

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

Learn About Our Innovations at the Yearly IPPE Expo

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Featured Resources

Tyson Foods Boosts IQF Throughput Using New Messer Wave Impingement Freezer

Faced with production challenges, Tyson Foods in Arkansas upgraded to the new Messer Wave Impingement Freezer. The company significantly increased production, reduced the cost to freeze and improved freezer reliability.

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Impingement Freezer from Messer Helps Double Line Capacity for Kayem al fresco Chicken Sausage

When Kayem upgraded to a Messer Impingement Freezer, which provides high freezing capacity per sq. ft. and low operating costs, they essentially doubled their freezing capacity.

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Mechanical vs Cryogenic IQF: The Individual Quick Freeze Guide for Food Processors

From chicken wings to shrimp, fresh vegetables and pasta, IQF allows processors to preserve food while protecting quality. In this blog, we provide an overview of how IQF freezing works.

Video of Messer's Wave Impingement Freezer, the Latest in IQF Productivity

This freezer is an innovative high-capacity freezing solution that combines the benefits of wave product agitation with impingement gas flows to give customers new-found levels of flexibility and productivity.

How to Solve Common Yield Issues in Protein Processing

Protein processors deal with a number of issues that risk dragging down yield. Valuable product weight can drip to the factory floor, evaporate to the ceiling, or stick to a conveyor belt.

4 Ways Protein Processors Are Increasing Throughput

This guide looks at how protein processors leverage new techniques to achieve tangible gains in production throughput, efficiency, cost, and product quality.

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