Convenience food manufacturer Hazlewood Foods is using Temperature Data Loggers with thermal barriers to enable ovens to be set up correctly and accurately, and for the oven profile to be checked
Hazlewood Foods is one of Europe's leading manufacturers of convenience foods, produced mainly under customer's own brands.
They supply all of the major UK retailers and many in Continental Europe.
In their continuous quest to respond to the needs of their customers and consumers alike they operate development and production facilities which are amongst the most advanced in the industry.
Major investment in new production facilities provided Hazlewood Grocery Ltd with the opportunity to further improve and enhance their new facilities, maintaining and improving the quality of continuous throughput with the best use of energy.
To do this they chose dataTaker Through Process data loggers.
Hazlewood used their DT1700 Temperature Data Loggers with thermal barriers to enable their ovens to be set up correctly and accurately, and for the oven profile to be checked. The brand new production facility, that bakes a wide range of cakes and biscuits, required thermal barriers able to withstand high temperatures over a long duration, up to 180degC for 3.5 hours.
The dataTaker units have been used throughout commissioning of the new tunnel, rack and drawplate ovens, and will be used when products are made to ensure that high quality is maintained and yield increased.
Process Development Manager David Fuller states that using dataTakers has made the installation of the ovens much less fraught as baking facilities can be checked quickly.
Previously Hazlewood would have employed a consultancy firm to check temperature levels, but find that not only is the dataTaker system simple to set up and use, but much more economic.
The dataTaker Through Process Barrier System (TPBs) has been developed for industries that need to log high accuracy data from environments that are not accessible to standard monitoring instrumentation.
TPBs can be used in hostile environments with a wide range of temperatures.
High temperature applications in food production require measurement and logging of data from within closed ovens and the results are fundamental to product quality.
