Blentech is an industry leading manufacturer of processing systems. Though we continue to achieve excellence in food production, our systems can also be used in pharmaceutical, chemical and biochemical applications. We creatively blend function, durability, sanitary design, safety and performance into the design and construction of Blentech systems.
Blentech has been designing equipment for 30 years that is of unparalleled quality and maintains its functional value for decades while delivering product consistency and driving down operating costs. Listen to our founder, Darrell Horn, talk about the past 30 years of innovation at Blentech and our team discuss the exciting things to come.
Based on market demand for improved quality consistency and food safety, Blentech developed and introduced the VersaTherm blending. The result was improved processing efficiencies and product quality of ground meats. The VersaTherm was a breakthrough in thermal processing, filling an industry void in the cooking of a wide range of viscous products, particularly ground meat. The success and rapid market acceptance of the VersaTherm firmly established Blentech as a leader in the thermal processing equipment industry and the sole supplier of many large restaurant chains seeking centralized production.
The BlenTherm single agitator blending cooker handles low to moderate viscosity soups, sauces, and meat slurries with ease. This system incorporates many of the advantages of our flagship VersaTherm blending cooker into a single agitator cooker that is the gold standard of soup and sauce production. It is the answer for processors seeking to increase productivity, product quality, and process efficiency.
The ContinuTherm continuous solid screw agitator cooker is a versatile cooking system configurable for a broad range of products and cooking techniques.
The CheezTherm dual solid-flight cooker is the tried and true solution for processed, analog and dairy-based products that can be cooked with the direct injection of culinary-grade filtered steam. It is the answer for cheese and dairy processors seeking to increase productivity, product quality, efficiency, and profit margins.
The SteamTherm single agitator blending cooker is ideally suited for the full-absorption batch production of rice, staged rice dishes (pilau, paella, biryani, and risotto), pasta, and specialty grains. All water added is fully absorbed into the product. There is no waste of utilities, thus making this process conservative from an energy standpoint.
The VersaWok single agitator stir-fry cooker uses thermal oil as a heating medium and can produce authentic stir-fried products quickly and easily. This system rapidly sears and tosses meats, poultry, fish and vegetables with results comparable to that of a professional chef. Furthermore, the VersaWok can be effectively employed for high-temperature browning, candy coating, fried rice, and flash frying applications.
The ContinuWok continuous stir-fry cooker can produce authentic stir-fried products quickly and easily at high throughputs. This system rapidly sears and tosses meats, poultry, fish and vegetables, and rice with results comparable to that of a professional chef.
The HydraTherm is a specialized continuous cooking system for rice, pasta, and grain products. Employing a full absorption cooking format and delivering only enough utilities to hydrate the product to the operator specified level, the HydraTherm is a waste-free system that conserves energy and drives down operating costs.
The Infinity Cooker is a continuous cooking solution configurable for a broad range of products transferrable by pump. The infinity cooker began as a revolutionary mozzarella cheese stretcher cooker, but now has a rapidly growing application set.
The MultiPro is a high speed batch cooking, cooling, emulsifying, gentle folding, and mixing system capable of handling almost any product with a wide range of shear sensitivities.
The QuadTherm is a compact, high-efficiency continuous heat exchange system for rapid heating or cooling of almost any product of low-to-high viscosity that is transferrable by pump. A well-mixed heat exchanger ensures even heating/cooling and eliminates the risk of undercooked products. The QuadTherm rotor and scraper systems undergo a great deal of computerized and empirical qualification and are further scrutinized under strict QA protocols.
Blentech manufactures a wide array of ancillary equipment including surge hoppers of varying
geometry for a variety of applications. We engineer these key ancillary systems so they integrate
with other Blentech and OEM systems to create complete production lines.
Blentech specializes in the integration and optimization of vacuum processing systems. Many food, flavor, pharmaceutical, and fragrance products are heat sensitive at the moderately high temperatures of their atmospheric boiling points. Processing is carried out under vacuum to minimize thermal degradation. Blentech provides highly efficient vacuum cooking/cooling solutions for the food, biotech, pharmaceutical, neutraceutical, and cosmetic industries.
The patented Blentech ‘wave-vane’ system overcomes the disadvantages of other designs by delivering strength in effective end-to-end mixing, tumbling and rapid discharge. The ‘wave-vane’ system is excellent for a wide variety of products. The smooth curvature of the helical vanes is gentle on products such as skinless bone-in chicken, beef rounds with minimal degradation when tumbling bone-in hams.
Many products can be transferred via positive displacement pump; however their flow and viscosity characteristics are such that they cannot be consistently drawn into the pump by gravity alone. The pump cannot maintain its prime and will not pump material consistently at the desired rate – with cavitation resulting in the most extreme cases.
Whether the process involves batch, continuous or batch-to-continuous process steps, loading raw materials, receiving discharged finished products and transfer of in-process material from one stage of production to the next in an efficient manner are critical.Blentech manufactures a wide range of ancillary conveyors designed to answer the challenges of material handling.
Blentech batch mixers can heat, mix, blend, cook, cool and chill. Horizontal agitation is a highly effective means of blending a wide assortment of products; from dry powders to low viscosity liquid products to high viscosity meat emulsions. Horizontal mixers blend products in multiple dimensions; lifting and folding the batch while stirring it about the vessel trough. Our vast blending expertise allows us to identify ideal mixer configuration for any application.
Blentech is an application driven company providing a range of solutions for the production of food, biotech, neutraceutical, pharmaceutical, and cosmetic products. We specialize in bringing innovative processing solutions to the market.
Customer-focused consultations and product demonstrations determine process specifications, parameters, and application details that drive the design process. The final execution of our processing lines encapsulates our attention to every detail.
With the opening of our state-of-the-art test center in late 2014, Blentech invites existing and new clients to come to our facility and validate their applications on our permanent demonstration installations. The new test center will be complete with an analytical/sensory lab for product evaluation and data collection.
Our clients know what makes excellent ready meals. Blentech specializes in process engineering, scale-up, improving process efficiency, and profitability.We deliver the success our clients seek combined with a deep understanding of the global ready meals marketplace.
Moving seamlessly from loading, chopping, sautéing, searing, cooking, simmering, emulsifying, cooling, discharging, and cleaning – we have your solution. Blentech scales kitchen sensibilities to blend process engineering and automation to create systems which always deliver the gold standard.
Blentech Technology Advantages:
Our user friendly automation packages will simplify each process stage. Historian data collection systems enable the collection and archiving of key process parameters, allowing the user to make strategic, data-supported process changes to maximize production and minimize quality issues.
We pride ourselves on our ability to provide value-added solutions for both domestic and international clients and help them achieve their vision. Our experience, technical expertise, and cultural diversity are applied to the needs of our clients with passion and enthusiasm. With installations on 6 continents preparing premium ready meals, we’re confident that we have the solution for you.
Our Offering:
Soups and sauces play an integral role in the comfort food repertoire of cultures all over the world. Industry leading ready-to-eat soup and sauce producers work closely with Blentech as we provide reliable solutions that optimize low-to-high viscosity soup and sauce production.
Blentech Technology Advantages:
Our user friendly automation packages will simplify each process stage. Historian data collection systems enable the collection and archiving of key process parameters, allowing the user to make strategic, data-supported process changes to maximize production and minimize quality issues.
We offer and deliver a deep understanding of staged recipe construction: producing stock and preparatory sautéing of mirepoix/soffritto, caramelizing onions, cooking vegetables/meat/fish, staging ingredients for layered flavor development, liquid volume addition, emulsification for smooth textures found in classic sauces, and a variety of product cooling options.
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Hand-held filled products have had a special place in many cultures for centuries. Blentech is your partner and specialist in the production and pasteurization of fillings for products including burritos, empanadas, pasteles Boricua, pastelillos, pot stickers, spring rolls, samosas, alcapurrias and sweet/savory pastries – just to list a few.We deliver the success our clients seek combined with a deep understanding of the filled products market.
Blentech Technology Advantages:
Our user friendly automation packages will simplify each process stage. Historian data collection systems enable the collection and archiving of key process parameters, allowing the user to make strategic process changes to maximize production and minimize quality issues.
Our diverse team has an extensive amount of experience learning how to achieve the right flavors and textures for specialty cultural products on an industrial scale. We are confident that Blentech technology can produce authentic fillings while streamlining and increasing the efficiency of your operations.
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The processed meat industry relies on technologies that effectively massage, marinate and chill meat and effectively prepare raw material for downstream processing. Blentech is your partner and specialist in the massaging, marinating, and chilling of whole muscle, diced, and ground meat. We deliver the success our clients seek combined with a deep understanding of the processed meat products market.
Blentech Technology Advantages:
Our user friendly automation packages will simplify each process stage. Historian data collection systems enable the collection and archiving of key process parameters, allowing the user to make strategic process changes to maximize production and minimize quality issues.
Our diverse team has extensive experience learning how to achieve the right flavors and textures for meat products on an industrial scale. We are confident that Blentech technology can produce high-yield meat products while streamlining and increasing the efficiency of your operations.
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From ancient times to the present, the basic commodities of most diets of the world have been and continue to be rice and grains. Industry leading rice and grain producers work closely with Blentech because we provide innovative reliable solutions that optimize their production with the versatility to produce almost any grain in the world.
We understand the nuances of cooking rice and specialty grains, and as such offer fully automated batch systems and continuous processing lines that will handle soaking, washing, conveying, cooking, ingredient dosing, and cooling with one operator.
Blentech Technology Advantages:
Our user friendly automation packages will simplify each process stage. Historian data collection systems enable the collection and archiving of key process parameters, allowing the user to make strategic process changes to maximize production and minimize quality issues.
Blentech offers both batch and continuous process formats. The ContinuTherm features water bath cooking, while the HydraTherm and SteamTherm systems offer full-absorption continuous and batch cooking processes, respectively. Full absorption industrial cooking technology is one of Blentech’s most exciting innovations. We believe in sustainable industrial production practices beginning with the conservation of process utilities.
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Blentech is your trusted counterpart in innovation and taking your confectionery product line to the next level. Our highly versatile product line allows candy and confectionary food manufacturers the freedom to create while maintaining the quality and true essence of their brands.
Blentech Technology Advantages:
Our user friendly automation packages will simplify each process stage. Historian data collection systems enable the collection and archiving of key process parameters, allowing the user to make strategic process changes to maximize production and minimize quality issues.
The art of candy and chocolate making is a delicate and precise chemistry and food science is just one technical field that we specialize in at Blentech. With a strong team of food scientists and engineers, we know how to approach scientifically advanced products with our machines to ensure gold standard results.
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Blentech is your partner and expert in the processing of vegetables for use in a wide array of products. We understand the importance of particulate integrity, time, temperature, and perhaps most importantly – texture, when preparing vegetables. Blentech delivers unique and innovative solutions to win market success and generate business wins for our clients.
Blentech Technology Advantages:
Our user friendly automation packages will simplify each process stage. Historian data collection systems enable the collection and archiving of key process parameters, allowing the user to make strategic process changes to maximize production and minimize quality issues.
Our technology is designed for chopping, sautéing, blanching, stir-frying, braising and rapid cooling to set the naturally vibrant colors and retain the crisp texture present in properly cooked vegetables. We scale kitchen sensibilities to blend process engineering and automation to create systems thatdeliver the gold standard.
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Industrial jam/jelly/preserve production requires tough solutions that work and deliver value consistently. Blentech technology is positioned perfectly for this market. We understand the chemical balance and precision that must exist between acidity, pectin, and sugar levels in order to make a successful jelly, jam, or preserve.
Blentech Technology Advantages:
We offer automation solutions that allow the operator access to crucial analytical process information such as brix levels and pH during processing to ensure that the mix is balanced correctly prior to downstream processing. Historian data collection systems enable the collection and archiving of key process parameters, allowing the user to make strategic process changes to maximize production and minimize quality issues.
We have invested our resources in developing vacuum cooking and essence recovery systems. Volatile flavor compounds are captured, condensed into a liquid that can be added back into the blend to boost the natural flavors without adding any additional moisture, thus keeping the pH and brix in balance.
Our Offering:
Based on market demand for improved quality consistency and food safety, Blentech developed the evolutionary VersaTherm blending cooker. The result was improved processing efficiencies and product quality of meat products. The VersaTherm was a breakthrough in thermal processing, filling an industry void in the cooking of a wide range of viscous products, particularly ground meat. The success and rapid market acceptance of the VersaTherm firmly established Blentech as a leader in the thermal processing equipment industry and the sole supplier of many large restaurant chains seeking centralized production. These partnerships continue to flourish.
Blentech Technology Advantages:
Our user friendly automation packages will simplify each process stage. Historian data collection systems enable the collection and archiving of key process parameters, allowing the user to make strategic process changes to maximize production and minimize quality issues.
Blentech systems are designed for sautéing, searing, braising, and stewing meat and other ingredients for pulled and shredded meat products. All of these processes can be accomplished on one Blentech machine. Blentech scales kitchen sensibilities and always delivers gold standard solutions to win market success and generate business wins for our clients.
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Blentech is your partner for equipment designed for processed and analog cheese and dairy products. Our thermal processors are ideal for a wide variety of dairy applications including, but not limited to batch and continuous production of processed cheese, analog cheese, and dairy-based sauces. We offer thermal processing options that will allow our clients to build recipes, cook, emulsify, and cool in the same vessel. Blentech scales kitchen sensibilities to blend process engineering and automation to create systems which always deliver the gold standard.
Blentech Technology Advantages:
Our user friendly automation packages will simplify each process stage. Historian data collection systems enable the collection and archiving of key process parameters, allowing the user to make strategic, data-supported process changes to maximize production and minimize quality issues.
We pride ourselves on providing value-added solutions in a global landscape and help our clients responsibly scale their operations. Our experience, technical knowledge, and in-house expertise are applied to the needs of our clients. With installations on 6 continents preparing processedand analog dairy products, we’re confident that we have the solution for you.
Our Offering:
Annual U.S. salsa sales are about $1.1 billion, more than twice those of flavored spreads like hummus, babaganoush, tapenades and other Mediterranean dips and spreads. Still, exotic spreads are growing at a 14 percent rate. Growing consumer demand for exotic savory and sweet flavors, and a focus on better-for-you (BFY) products has helped keep the market for dips and spreads growing and has kept business strong at Blentech.
Blentech is your leader in processing equipment for dips and spreads, specializing in salsa, hummus, cheese dips, and a variety of vegetable/legume-based products. We offer both batch and continuous solutions for clients producing dips and spreads at varying throughput rates. Additionally, we offer high shear mixing and innovative continuous heat exchange options to process spreads, dips, and slurries transferrable by pump.
Blentech Technology Advantages:
Our user friendly automation packages will simplify each process stage. Historian data collection systems enable the collection and archiving of key process parameters, allowing the user to make strategic process changes for optimization.
Our Offering:
Pizza is a world-wide comfort food ranking in the top 5 favorite foods in countless countries. In a recent survey conducted regarding the world’s favorite pizza toppings, sausage and bacon ranked within the top 5. Blentech is your specialist when it comes to the continuous production of bacon products and meat crumble pizza toppings.
Blentech Technology Advantages:
Our user friendly automation packages will simplify each process stage. Historian data collection systems enable the collection and archiving of key process parameters, allowing the user to make strategic process changes to maximize production and minimize quality issues.
With completely automated continuous bacon and pizza topping lines operating all over the world, we have honed our specialization in manufacturing and optimizing these systems for our clients. We offer fully integrated systems for raw ingredient blending, pumping, particulate forming, cooking, de-watering/oiling, and finished product transfer.
Our Offering:
With the growing popularity of both artisanal and commercial bacon products, Blentech has the solution for responsibly scaling, streamlining, and increasing the process efficiency of your operations.
Blentech has developed a line of thermal processors with enough heat transfer capability to evaporate moisture and develop flavors quickly and economically. We specialize in the complete integration and automation of equipment for every stage of the bacon production process: particle reduction, raw material handling, cooking, de-oiling, rendered fat circulation/filtration/storage, finished product transfer, and filling.
Blentech Technology Advantages:
Our user friendly automation packages will simplify each process stage. Historian data collection systems enable the collection and archiving of key process parameters, allowing the user to make strategic process changes for optimization.
Our Offering:
Show: Process Expo
Location: Chicago, IL
Date: September 19 - 22, 2017
Booth Number: #2020
