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This is a special PotatoPro Newsletter to inform you on the
upcoming auction of the equipment of former Jay's Foods
Inc. Snack food
factory in Chicago on January 24, 2008 by Rabin Worldwide. This
is a unique opportunity to acquire used potato chips processing
lines, Heat and Control batch fryers to produce kettle style
potato chips or Hayssen Ishida packaging machines and much more.
Paul van Eijck
An Era comes to an End
On January 24th, 2008 eighty years of potato chip manufacturing
on Chicago's south side will come to a close with the public
auction sale of equipment from Jays Foods manufacturing headquarters
on East 99th Street. This announcement follows the bankruptcy
court's acceptance of a $24.8 million bulk sale of the majority
of the firms assets to another party.
The Jays brand has always been considered a quality snack product
throughout Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Missouri, Minnesota
and Iowa. Unfortunately, even with a 60% market share in the
ready-to-eat popcorn category in these states, Jays flagship
manufacturing plant could not offset the rising costs of cooking
oils, raw materials, energy, and labor costs - all while competing
with snack food giant Frito Lay (which has nearly 70% market
share nationwide).
The equipment auction is being conducted by Rabin
Worldwide of San Francisco and is open to the public. The
auction will include
batch frying systems utilized to make the Krunchers kettle style
chips, four continuous fry lines which produced the bulk of
Jays regular & barbeque potato chips, two popcorn systems which
were recently producing the famous O-Ke-Doke popcorns, as well
as 18 Ishida packaging machines.
We highlight a few of the many lots of the auction below.
 The auction includes 5 Heat and Control
batch frying systems, previously used by Jay's to produce their Krunchers
Kettle Style potato chips. These batch frying systems
typically consist of 2 Heat and Control BF-180 fryers with BF-stir
with an Urschel model CC slicer mounted on the travelling frame,
an oil storage tank, a filter, fire extinguisher systems and
roof mounted exhaust fans.
Read more...
 The auction includes four continuous chips processing
lines with equipment such as Salvo fryers, Urschel model CC
slicers, mostly mounted on potato chips washers and
Van Mark potato peelers (7 brushes), destoners and metering
hoppers.
Read more...
 The
auction includes two popcorn popping lines (Cretors, 1000
and 650 lbs/h) with Flo-Thru hot air popper, Flo-Thru rotary
sifter and Hance model 175S stainless steel bucket elevator
with associated screen and hopper, Both popcorn lines
include flavouring drums, equipped with Acrison dry
ingredient feeder and liquid feed system. The complete
Tortilla production line (in storage) mostly exists of Casa
Herrera equipment.
Read more...
 The
auction includes 18 Hayssen bagging units with Ishida
14 head weighing units in various different configurations. Also
metal detectors, robotic case palletizing and conveying
systems are among the auction lots.
Read more...
Those interested in learning more about
the auction can visit www.rabin.com
for complete listings and photos
or call +1.415.522.5700
.
More information: call
+1.415.522.5700
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