BOC CRYOGENIC IMPINGEMENT FREEZER BOOSTS PRODUCTION, REDUCES COST FOR KING & PRINCE SEAFOOD

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BOC CRYOGENIC IMPINGEMENT FREEZER BOOSTS PRODUCTION, REDUCES COST FOR KING & PRINCE SEAFOOD
22 September 2006 - BOC Gases

King & Prince Seafood Company has replaced two freezers with a single, BOC cryogenic impingement freezer at its Brunswick, Georgia processing plant, enabling it to increase production while lowering costs and reducing yield loss.

John Clay, plant engineer, King and Prince Seafood, said, "In order to increase production, we needed to replace our spiral and immersion freezers with a single piece of equipment capable of running many different products. BOC’s impingement freezer has allowed us to double our production output and has provided an added bonus of reducing our per unit nitrogen consumption."

Andy Gardenhire, account manager, BOC, said, "We understand the competitive nature of the seafood industry and recognized the opportunity to deliver value beyond production increases to our customer. Our cryogenic impingement freezer does this by allowing King and Prince to reduce operating costs while running up to 16 different products in a small footprint."

K&P, which is headquartered in Brunswick, processes shrimp, lobster, stuffed flounder and crab cakes and markets them to large restaurant chains.

Food processors look to BOC for its knowledge, skill and experience in delivering reliable engineered solutions to address their atmosphere, microbe and temperature control requirements. BOC provides a range of offerings that help customers consistently deliver the highest quality food product to their customers, including ozone and UV light pathogen intervention systems, chilling and freezing technologies, modified atmosphere packaging, state-of-the-art food monitoring and control technologies, water management services and a precision-controlled, continuous grinding and blending system to help customers achieve total process control in their plants.

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Through its PGS line of business, BOC supplies gas and related solutions to the chemicals, petroleum, glass, water services, electronic packaging, fibre optics, hydrogen energy, metals and food industries. BOC helps meet customer needs in a variety of ways, from the supply of a single gas or application through to designing, constructing and operating fully integrated gas and utilities schemes.

The BOC Group, which serves two million customers in more than 50 countries, is one of the largest and most global of the world's leading gases companies. It employs some 44,500 people worldwide and had annual sales of over £4.3 billion in 2003. Further information about The BOC Group may be obtained on the Internet at www.boc.com

The BOC Group has an international portfolio of companies grouped for management control and reporting into three lines of business: Process Gas Solutions, Industrial and Special Products, and BOC Edwards. It also has a specialist logistics business, Gist.

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