Cycle time on raw meat
Thick nuggets of fatty meat dry far slower than thin strips. Ask for cycle hours measured on a named product at a stated thickness.
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Pet food freeze dryers are sold on kilograms per batch, yet yearly output depends on how many hours raw meat takes to dry, and no listing we read gave that number.
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Thick nuggets of fatty meat dry far slower than thin strips. Ask for cycle hours measured on a named product at a stated thickness.
Listed batches work out at 10 to 12 kg per square metre. More meat on the same shelf means a longer cycle.
The largest listing needs steam at 560 kg an hour. No boiler on site means a second project.
Ask the condenser temperature, its ice capacity and defrost time between batches, which is lost output.
The biggest listed chamber uses 576 trays. Ask whether trolleys, freezer and loading room are in the quote.
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In two listings the model number tracks shelf area in square metres, the right number to compare, though it says nothing about cycle time.
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Send these with the enquiry. Without them, any number a factory gives you is a guess dressed as a quotation.
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| Require this | A pass looks like |
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| A full load of your meat, at your piece thickness, run through one complete cycle. | Cycle hours recorded from door close to door open, at or below the figure in the contract. |
| Samples from the top, middle and bottom shelves tested for end moisture. | Every sample at or below your moisture target. |
| Vacuum, shelf and condenser temperatures logged through the whole cycle. | A complete log you can export, with no gaps, handed over with the test report. |
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A hot air dryer or smokehouse, a simpler machine to buy and run.
A contract freeze-drying service until the product sells, then a chamber sized to real orders.
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We name the kind of source, how many and when, and never the factory. Listed prices are asking prices, not landed cost. Where we do not hold a fact we say so: that is a GAP, not an estimate.
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Every machine we source in this area is on the Pet food page. How a project runs, stage by stage, is on how it works, and what it costs is on pricing.
Straight answers
Vacuum pump, compressor and control brands, and the cycle data the maker can show on meat. Ask for pump and compressor makes by name.
Freeze drying removes water; it is not a kill step. How raw material of animal origin must be handled is set by Regulation (EC) 1069/2009 and feed hygiene by Regulation (EC) 183/2005, both binding your business. Ask your competent authority what your product needs.
Measured shelf area, tray count, pump and compressor makes, refrigerant data, condenser temperature reached, and a full-cycle log on your meat.
Whoever places the dryer on the EU market, usually the buyer. That name goes on the machine or its papers.
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