types of ice
Ice for commercial, industrial and production processes comes in a variety of forms.
Scale Ice
What is Scale Ice?
Scale ice means sub-cooled ice where the temperature range of the ice scales may vary between - 6°C & - 12°C.
Scotsman Scale Ice machines manufacture ice in a range of thicknesses: The ice ranges from 1.5 mm, as preferred by the meat processing industry, to 3 mm. as demanded by the fishing industry, to best suit processing and transport requirements.
Supermarket specialists use Scale Ice to prepare a layer of scale and flake ice on fish and seafood displays. The result is a combined effect of longer lasting freshness and natural appearance of the fresh food, with slower ice melt than with flake ice.
Scotsman scale ice machines are available in both fresh and saltwater variants for both ice formation and as a coolant.
Scotsman Salt-Water units are purposely designed to cope with the rigours of on-board life.
Flake Ice
What is Flake Ice?
Flake Ice is ice in its most natural shape.
Extruded at a temperature just below zero degrees it is available from Scotsman in two different levels of moisture, with superflake having the driest and most compressed individual flakes of ice.
Scotsman flaked ice suits a wide variety of applications including fisheries, laboratories and industry.
Flake ice offers the best solution for maintaining refrigerated and moisturised perishables where long-lasting freshness and natural appearance need to be guaranteed.
The Scotsman ice making system is based on a flooded stainless steel evaporator which maximises heat exchange between refrigerant and water and which can be accurately controlled and monitored.
Formed ice is then forced under pressure through the Scotsman bronze icebreaker, which removes excess humidity from the ice flakes.
This proven technology is acknowledged as the best guarantee of constant ice quality and long lasting, reliable operation.
Scotsman flake ice machines offer the widest range of machines and production capacities available. Compact or split, self-contained or modular, Scotsman machines will fit virtually any space and capacity requirement, and have been selected as the choice of the most demanding food processing and industrial production companies around the world.
