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equipment innovations

Clean Efficiency
Cleaning up workspaces in your bakery has never been more

industries. More than 80 standard commercial and industrial

important. With food safety issues garnering nationwide at-

washing machines exist to quickly and efficiently clean pans,

tention and consumers valuing the importance of shopping for

trays, totes, molds, scale parts, screens, pallets, lugs, racks, bar-

food in clean stores, it's vital that your retail bakery, cafe or res-

rels, smoke trucks, bins, vats, barrels and buckets. Batch and

taurant has a comprehensive sanitation plan in place and that it

continuous cleaning washers are available for several hundred

is working effectively.

to several thousand containers an hour.

Recent food safety incidents related to fresh salads in the

Among others, the LVO FL14 front load pan washer is the most

United States prompted severe downturns to companies com-

popular model at LVO Manufacturing. The LVO FL14 cleans

peting in the category, a pertinent example of what happens

pots, pan, bowls, or utensils with a powerful, high pressure

when one company has a problem.

wash. With a 10-horsepower pump and bass wash hubs, the
two rotating stainless steel spray arms blast away soil for great-

For bakeries, equipment manufacturers continue to develop

er cleanliness, while a hot water rinse ensures proper sanitizing

highly efficient and effective solutions.

temperature.

With waste heat recovery critical in warewashing, Hobart has

Capable of washing up to 140 pans per hour, the FL14 is fully

found that drain-water energy recovery solves multiple chal-

automatic and simple to operate. The front load design allows

lenges at once. Not only is waste heat recovered to preheat

for easy access to the wash chamber, while at the same time

incoming water, but with drain water temperatures reduced,

minimizing the amount of ﬂood space required.

the need for tempering water also is greatly reduced, saving
signiﬁcant water consumption. The new model is the CLeN
Conveyor Warewasher with Drain Water Energy Recovery.
New from Meiko, the M-iClean UM with GiO Module features an
undercounter hot-water sanitizing glasswasher that boasts an
integrated reverse-osmosis ﬁltration system. The R-O system
removes the water impurities that cause spotting, eliminating
the need for hand polishing. An illuminated door handle glows
blue for ready, green for washing, and red for messages.
Both the Hobart and Meiko machines are among the 2017
Kitchen Innovations winners from the National Restaurant Association.
For tough cleaning assignments, the Douglas Machines' LD-36
features a 15 horsepower pump, rotating wash arms and a ﬂexible racking system that holds up to 36 pans. Due to its large
cabinet size, the LD-36 also has the unique ability to clean
single baking racks that are placed in the machine horizontally.
Douglas Machines Corp. offers a full line of commercial and
industrial washers for all containers commonly used in the bakery, meat, poultry, food processing, packaging and distribution

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