History
Unitherm is known throughout the food processing industry for its innovative approach to the design and creation of machines and systems to maximize yields and reduce processing times, while enhancing safety and profitability.
Unitherm started in the United Kingdom in 1985 with a stainless steel fabrication shop, custom building equipment for food processors. As business evolved, Unitherm started manufacturing increasingly more technical equipment. Word of Unitherm’s unique design ability and approach to problem-solving quickly spread and we found ourselves working head-to-head with engineers from companies around the world to develop custom cooking systems.
Importantly, our Founder and Chief Innovator, David Howard, still guides the business to this day. Such stability and continuity is very rare in an industry buffeted by continuous business turmoil and change.
Conforming to Regulations
All Unitherm products are designed and manufactured to meet HACCP, USDA and EEC regulations. Unitherm engineers are familiar with many government requirements for hygiene and quality control, in both the United States and Europe. From crevice-free, fully-welded stainless steel construction to approved pumps and motors for each cooking or chilling process, all Unitherm products conform point-by-point to these stringent regulations.
Trials and Tributes
Superior product design and innovation, coupled with quality craftsmanship, allows us to guarantee your product outcomes. Our constant testing and attention to feedback give us an edge in the cook/chill market.
We invite you to visit our factory to conduct product trials using our full-size production units.
Philosophy
From our founding in the United Kingdom in 1985, we at Unitherm have dedicated ourselves to embodying three core elements as the guiding principles of our firm. They are SAFTEY, EFFICIENCY, and INNOVATION.
Safety
We believe nothing is more essential to the food processing industry than the assurance to the end customer that the food they eat hold to the highest standards of food safety. People must have unquestioned confidence and trust in the foods they eat. Unitherm is dedicated to the delivery of machinery and processes that not only meet the state of the art for safety, but beyond that, we are dedicated to setting the next standards.
Efficiency
A globalizing world, bounded by rising input costs, shrinking margins, and increased competition, demands that firms and factories stay on the cutting edge of production technology, the edge where profits are made and market share is won.At Unitherm, our mission is to help carry the standard of cutting edge production forward. We will never rest on past successes, in the drive to make the next leap forward in production efficiency.
Innovation
At Unitherm, INNOVATION comes from the integration of our focus on SAFTEY and EFFICIENCY. In the 25years since our founding, we have been a pioneer changing the way foods are handled and processed:Post-lethality treatments, such as our approach to infrared pasteurizing, defined by FSIS as the new gold standard. We were the first to move into continuous in-bag pasteurizing for whole muscle meats.
- Introduced pasteurizing for ready meals to the US
- Introduced impingement technology for freezing in 1990.
- Introduced a continuous crusting process for vastly more efficient log slicing.
- Our continuous in-line brander and smoker for turkey and hams has dropped smoke times to less than 10 minutes, resulting in massively less shrink and higher profits.
- HYGIENE: we introduced stainless steel floor drains, curbing and boot washers that actually work. Critically, the designs emphasize crack and crevice free designs to eliminate the areas pathogens hide.
- Our drains and P-Traps can be fully sanitized, a critical element under the new drain swab regime at FDA.
News
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