In recent years, industry has shifted away from producing 25-lb. individually quick-frozen (IQF) boxes of burgers to smaller trays, packages or bags of refrigerated/never-frozen case-ready burgers. A burger used to resemble a frozen, rock-hard hockey puck, but today, more than 25 feet of different fresh, refrigerated burgers are on display in the refrigerated grocery section. Premium, fresh-pack burgers have overtaken its frozen competition by consistently offering top-of-the-line, high-quality products.
Due to this market shift, Provisur Technologies Inc. has taken a fresh look at how to manufacture an extraordinary burger. Today, the challenge is to efficiently and consistently create burgers through highly automated portion control while at the same time yielding product that exhibits a home-made, random appearance. Enter the Formax HomeStyle Patty System (HPS), which manufactures formed portions with irregular, broken edges that produce a “handmade” finished appearance. HPS consists of any Formax forming machine, new or existing, and the specially designed HomeStyle Patty Conveyor, the latter of which is available for any of the Formax forming systems.