Revolutionizing deep frying technology
With the ProFry family, GEA introduces the latest inline industrial deep frying technology, designed for high product quality, increased profitability and advanced production insights. Grounded in five decades of expertise, the industrial fryer family features a 30% boost in oil flow and automated, inline oil quality measurement technology (patent pending). The new technology promotes an optimized frying process for both deep fried and flash fried food products.
GEA ProFry is a versatile fryer that increases capacities by 15% while maintaining remarkable resource efficiency. It equips you with all the necessary tools to safeguard your product's profitability. The innovative, state-of-the-art SmartControl HMI caters to user preferences and profiles, offering a simplified and personalized operator interface, along with easy-to-export production data for continuous process optimization and future audit trails.
Frying stabilizes coatings, enhances color and crispness, and lends that distinctive mouthfeel to flashfried and deepfried food products. Achieving high-quality fried products depends on oil quality, temperature, and flow, all of which are critical factors. To optimize your frying process and accurately predict future profitability, data is the key. GEA ProFry is developed to help you be in control of all these parameters and elevate your deep frying process.
Main applications
The GEA ProFry industrial fryer is designed for a wide range of deep and flash fried applications such as pork, poultry, seafood, vegetables and plant based products. Typical applications include tempura coated nuggets, crumb coated schnitzel, flour coated wings, home style tenders, coated fried fish and coated fried onion rings.
Key benefits
High product quality
- Uniform heating of frying oil ensures uniformly fried products, even for demanding applications such as tempura
- Advanced oil circulation system with up to 30% more oil flow and finetuning even during production
- Enhanced active sediment removal system with frequency driven drives for adaptive sediment removal of settled sediment , suspended sediment and floated sediment
- Recipe controlled automatic hold-down conveyor to maintain excellent product orientation, thus minimizing 'twins' or doubles
- Optional: Teflon infeed belt for high-speed operation of demanding applications
Resource efficient fryer for increased profitability
- Innovative design features excellent hood and kettle insulation, efficient heat transfer and accurate temperature control
- Balanced heat transfer prevents overheating of frying oil and promotes longer oil life
- Inline real-time oil quality monitoring helps efficient oil use and management
- Balanced oil flow, reducing doubles (marriages and twins) and minimizes food waste
- High cleaning efficiency thanks to optimized CIP with nozzles in the stack, renewed hygienic design and special surface treatment of the conveyor construction
- Up to 25% faster cleaning with less water and cleaning agents needed
Advanced production insights for maximum process control
- State-of-the-art GEA SmartControl HMI next level operating platform with 21’ multi-touch screen
- Personalized user experience with customizable display and alarm handling
- Insights in current and historical process data and events
- Easy exportable data
Advanced fryer technology
Enhanced active sediment removal system
The GEA ProFry has an enhanced active sediment removal system with frequency-driven drives to find the optimal speed for adaptive removal of settled, suspended and floated sediment. The crosswise scraper belt positioned at 1/3 of the way along the fryer minimizes sediment retention time in the oil. A scraper belt runs along bottom over the total length of the fryer to remove residual sediment at the outfeed. A built-in slotted screen filter and a new, patented, floating sediment removal solution remove floating coating (surface) sediment out of the fryer.
GEA SmartControl HMI (Human-Machine-Interface)
SmartControl HMI offers you a simplified, personalized operator interface and insightful, easy-to-export data. The new GEA SmartControl HMI platform runs on a PC to unlock features that were previously impossible and delivers unprecedented levels of transparency over current and historical process data and events. Through the 21.5” multi-touch screen, operators have total visibility of the process and can make necessary adjustments to keep each element in-line with optimum levels. Alarms provide alerts should any data point drift off limit. This level of process control ensures that productivity levels and product quality are maintained in perfect harmony.
In-line oil quality checks
A closer look at your oil quality is getting more and more attention. Retailers are more focused on this information and also increased oil prices drive the need for a closer control of the oil quality Till now oil quality could only be taken off-line. GEA has developed a patented system where we can online, real time measure and store the oil quality data during production.
Technical details
| ProFry thermal versions | Length |
| ProFry 650 | 5m - 6m - 7,5m - 9m - 11m |
| ProFry 1050 | 6m - 7,5m - 9m - 11m |
| EasyFry thermal version | Length |
| EasyFry 450 | 4m |
Every kilowatt counts
Energy efficiency through stable frying performance
Energy efficiency in continuous frying depends on efficient heat transfer and stable thermal conditions. By minimizing sediment build-up, balancing temperature distribution and maintaining oil stability, products are fried only as much as needed - reducing oil degradation, limiting heat losses and lowering energy use per kilogram without compromising quality.
GEA ProFry optimizes heat exchanger performance, enables lower thermal oil settings and delivers uniform frying conditions across the fryer. Combined with longer production runs and fewer heat-up, cool-down and cleaning cycles, this results in measurable energy savings in high‑throughput frying operations.
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Oil is a complex and expensive commodity; managing it efficiently saves processing costs and ensures consistently high food quality for the consumer.
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