A MODEL FACTORY.

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 118, 14 November 1929, Page 5

A MODEL FACTORY.

FROZEN PRODUCTS LTD.

ICE-CREAM IN THE MAKING.

It sounds almost Incredible, but nevertheless it is a fact that last year New Zealanders consumed no less than 195,0001b of butter-fat, not in drinking milk, but in eating ice-creams. Of course, during the summer months the request, "I want an ice-cream, please," is made over the counters thousands of times daily, and a very healthful article of diet is an ice-cream if it is properly made. Pound for pound, it contains much more nourishment than meat, and it has the great advantage in the fact that amongst its ingredients are none that arc indigestible.

. The ice-creams and other delicacies made by Frozen Products, Ltd., are very well known to the public, ljut consumers would be vastly more interested in them did they know all that goes on in the new factory in Tennyson street. Hero has been installed* the very latest- machinery, and it is quite a revelation to see -the latest scientific methods used in the manufacture o£ ice-creams'and similar products. The ingredients are few —cream, milk, sugar, and various flavourings—and it is a sine qua non with Frozen Products, Ltd., that these ingredients shall be of the highest quality it is possible to obtain. All the containers' and machinery are kept scrupulously clean, so that the finished article is pure and wholesome. Great 500-gallon mixing tanks discharge their contents through homogenising machines .which ensure that all particles are thoroughly broken up, and from these the mixture goes into the freezers. As required, it is drown off for its final appearance as ice-cream, Eskimo " pie, or some other luscious dainty. One of the most interesting bits at machinery in this up-to-date factory is that which, with almost supernatural uncanniness, takes blocks of the frozen mixture, clips them into liquid chocolate, and neatly wraps them,-to be subsequently consumed as Eskimo pie. /

The whole factory abounds with labour-saving machinery, obviating handling of the products. Naturally, ice lias to be manufactured in large quantities, seeing that'l2 to 13 tons a day are used on the premises, in addition to the vast quantity which is sent out for use in housewives' coolers. A 32-ton ice tank does this job most efficiently, and the store chambers for its output is a. pleasant place to be in on a hot summer day. Four cool-stores can house and keep in good condition 50 to CO thousand cases of fruit, for fresh fruit is essential for the pure flavourings used. Then there are rooms where cabinets are manufactured for use in the home, Frozen Products, Ltd supplying ice daily, cut into convenient blocks for use in them. Last, but not ■least, this mfist interesting factory contains the testing laboratories, which ensure that all ingredients : id products reach the very highest possible standard of purity. Frozen Products, Ltd., are to be congratulated upon their enterprise in the erection and equipment of a factory which is probably second to none.—Published by Arrangement.