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Standard product lines designed for the food and pharmaceutical industries offer a wide array of cooking options, times and temperatures in a smaller footprint that have just a $5-$10/operating hour maintenance costs.
In 1988 Checker Machine began manufacturing a line of low-tension, direct- inject spiral steam ovens. Between 1988 and 2014 they manufactured more Spiral steam ovens than anyone else, and shipped them to four different continents. In 2015, Anderson Dahlen acquired the Checker spiral steam oven business with the idea of combining it with their own linear steamers and expanding the total product offering. Along with that purchase Anderson Dahlen added several key Checker design, sales and manufacturing people to their staff to assist them in their new endeavor. With these additions Anderson Dahlen has over 40 years of experience in spiral steam oven manufacturing, application analysis and installation.
Our spiral cookers put more cooking power into a smaller space at a lower cost than any other system.
We serve the dairy, meat, poultry, seafood and packaged product industries with steam cookers. We serve the pharmaceutical and manufacturing industry with low temperature spiral dryers.
The original Checker Steam Oven team had been designing, building and installing machines for over 25 years. Anderson Dahlen has some of the most advanced manufacturing techniques in the upper Midwest. Combining these two attributes make for a winning scenario. Our customers are some of the worlds largest food companies in the world. Fortune 500 companies that have demanding applications that require the machine to run around the clock 6-7 days a week with over 99.5% up-time. Checker Spiral Steamers have performed up to their intended design criteria in every application that they have been put in, a 100% success rate. We have never had a machine removed because it did not produce the desired results. How many manufacturers can say that? We also design and build linear steamers which can stand alone or be installed as a booster.
A fortune 500 company comes to Anderson Dahlen with a problemhow can we increase capacity, boost yield and improve the production environment on a pizza topping production line, without increasing the footprint of the existing equipment.
The Anderson Dahlen team creates a unique solution by replacing an inclined discharge conveyor with a sealed, inclined, linear booster steamer which achieves all the necessary improvement in the customers process. The customer goes on to incorporate horizontal and inclined booster steamers to additional production lines. Our steamers, whether spiral or linear, can be incorporated into existing lines to increase capacity, yield or both.
Another Customer comes to us with the following requirement: How can we change a batch bagel steaming process, with multiple process temperatures, which step up from lower temperatures to higher temperatures, and turn it into a continuous production process. A process like this is common in batch processing, but, is more difficult in a continuous process production line.
Our solution was to create a multiple zone spiral steamer, all on a single spiral, which mimicked the batch process to achieve all the necessary product parameters.
You guys do spectacular work such perfectly polished seams! Thank you for getting it overnight-ed to me. Anderson Dahlen is first on my list to get the special things done from here on out. Tim, Wonder Works Unlimited
Thank you to you and your team who assisted me during my visit. Both the customer and I were hugely impressed with everything from start to finish. The actual FATs were one of the smoothest that I have experienced in 20 years. I look forward to working with you in the future. Martin Kelly, Thermo Fisher
We want to let you know how much Brian and I appreciate you, Greg, Nathan, and the rest of the Anderson Dahlen team for helping us to complete the test assembly and collect the test data on time during our visit. Your help truly exceeded our expectations. We thank you for showing us your manufacturing plants. Vincent Lee, Plasma-Therm NES
Thank you to Gary and the fabricators who helped us remove the scratch and refinishing our aluminum part. You saved us a ton of time and kept us on track for an on time delivery to our customer. We definitely owe you one! Clint Bitterman, VP-Co Owner of Master Tool & Mfg Inc.
Their willingness to spin a large part well off axis made it possible. Their attention to detail made it a success. Equally praiseworthy is their communication during the manufacturing process, assuring the best part. John Rogers, Engineering Technician Lead, University of Washington Dept. of Aeronautics & Astronautics
