A refrigerated drum turns through a water trough, ice builds on it a fraction of a millimetre at a time, and a blade lifts it off as a 1.5–2.2 mm flake. Irregular, flat and cold — −5 to −8 °C straight out of the chute, so it pulls heat out of product far faster than a cube ever will. Four models, and three of them share one cabinet.
All air-cooled. Three models share one 760 × 880 mm cabinet.
| Model | Output kg/24h | Power W | W×D×H mm | Bin kg | Voltage | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OLC-PB200 | 200 | 770 | 760×880×1725 | 150 | 220V | |
| OLC-PB300 | 300 | 1,023 | 760×880×1725 | 150 | 220V | |
| OLC-PB500 | 500 | 1,760 | 760×880×1865 | 150 | 220V | |
| OLC-PB1000 | 1,000 | 3,450 | 1220×960×2050 | 450 | 380V |
Flake 1.5–2.2 mm · 220V except PB1000 (380V) · bin and power on each model page.
OLC-PB200, PB300 and PB500 are the same machine at three compressor sizes. Identical 760 × 880 mm footprint, identical 1,725 mm height on the first two — the only thing that changes is how much refrigerant the system moves. If you are fitting out a boat, a narrow prep room or a counter run that cannot grow, this is the reason to buy from this range: you can step up an output class later without touching the floor plan.
OLC-PB1000 is a different body — 1,220 × 960 mm, and the only model on this page that needs 380V three-phase. At 3,450 W a single-phase supply is not realistic, and most cold stores and processing halls are already wired for three-phase. Tell us the site voltage and we confirm the version before quoting. Dimensions are the complete unit; bin capacity is the bin supplied with the machine.
Floor space does not change when the output does. That matters where flake ice is actually used — on a boat, in a prep room, behind a counter that cannot grow.
On a fishing boat or in a processing hall, the cabinet is usually set into a fixed position with the chute facing the work area. Buying the next size up later costs a new machine — buying it now, into the same 760 × 880 mm slot, does not cost a new layout.
A refrigerated drum turns slowly through a trough of water. Where the drum leaves the water, a film of ice starts building on the cold metal, and by the time that section of drum has travelled about a third of a turn the film is 1.5–2.2 mm thick. A fixed blade sits against the drum at that point and lifts the film off in one continuous sheet, which breaks into flakes as it falls into the bin.
Two things follow from that. First, the ice never sits in a mould, so no two flakes are the same shape — that is normal, not a defect. Second, because the ice forms on metal held at around −20 °C, it leaves the machine at −5 to −8 °C, several degrees colder than a cube. Cold ice plus flat pieces that stack around a product instead of rolling off it is why flake chills a fish in minutes where a cube would take much longer.
What it will not do is sit in a glass. A flake melts fast by design, so for drinks you want cube, crescent or nugget ice — all of which we also build. Flake is a working ice, not a serving ice.
Most buyers arrive already knowing they want flake. The rest are choosing between three ice types that all look like "ice" on a spec sheet and behave nothing alike in use.
Temperatures are what the ice reads on a probe as it leaves the chute, not the evaporating temperature inside the machine. They are the reason flake is specified by food-safety teams: colder ice held in contact with product crosses the danger zone faster.
Six buyers, in the order they usually contact us. Every one of them is buying contact and speed, not appearance.
Flake wraps the fish instead of weighing on it. Chills the core in minutes and does not bruise the skin, which is what the buyer sees first.
See recommended models → 02Made on board as the catch comes in, so the fish never waits for ice. Sized to the hold, not to the quay.
See recommended models → 03Laid as a bed under the product. Flat flakes give an even surface, so nothing sits in a puddle and nothing is half-buried.
See recommended models → 04Added straight into the bowl cutter to hold the mix below the temperature where fat smears and bacteria multiply.
See recommended models → 05Flake melts evenly through a dough, which chilled water does not. The reason industrial bakeries specify it over any other ice.
See recommended models → 06Packed around pallets and in insulated boxes for the last leg. Cheap per kilogram of cooling, and it fills voids a block cannot.
See recommended models →Four models is a short list, so the real question is not which one — it is how big. Three rules of thumb cover most of the enquiries we get.
Kilograms of ice per kilogram of product. Take the low end if it is used the same day, the high end if it travels or sits overnight.
For a bed about 4 cm deep. Measure the display area, not the shop floor — and add for the top-up through the day.
Set by the recipe rather than the batch size. Tell us the target dough temperature and the batch weight and we work it back.
Worked example. A processor handles 500 kg of fish a day and it leaves the same afternoon. At 0.5 : 1 that is 250 kg of ice — OLC-PB300, with headroom for the cleaning break. If the same 500 kg goes out on a truck the next morning, it needs close to 500 kg and the answer is OLC-PB500 in the same cabinet. Above that, two machines beat one big one: a single unit has to stop for cleaning, and a processing line does not.
Add 15–20 % to whatever the arithmetic gives you. Ice demand is set by the busiest day of the week, and every machine on this page is rated on a 24-hour average at standard conditions — in a 35 °C room with poor ventilation, expect the top of the range to come down.
Machines from this plant run in more than twenty countries across the Gulf, Southeast Asia and Africa.
Flake, cube, nugget, granular, snow, crescent, large cube. One supplier for a mixed order.
Certified production. Certificate coverage confirmed per model before you quote it.
Spec sheets, FOB pricing and lead time answered by the sales team, not a form robot.
You can, and in some markets people do — but it is the wrong tool. A flake is thin by design, so it has an enormous surface area for its weight and it melts within minutes, diluting the drink as it goes. For anything served in a glass, take cube (slowest melt), crescent, or nugget if the drink is meant to be chewed. We build all of them in the same plant, so a mixed container is not a problem.
It stays cold for days in a well-insulated bin, but it does not stay loose. Flake compacts under its own weight and sets into a mass, and once it has set you are breaking it up with a shovel instead of scooping it. The working rule is make it the day you use it. If you must hold it overnight, keep the bin closed, do not top it up on top of old ice, and plan for the bin to be emptied and cleaned between batches.
OLC-PB200 or OLC-PB300 — both are 760 × 880 mm and 1,725 mm tall, and between them cover 200 and 300 kg a day. If the vessel needs more than that, OLC-PB500 is the same footprint 14 cm taller, so the mounting position does not change. For a marine installation tell us the vessel type and the power available on board — we confirm what we can build for that supply before quoting, rather than after.
Because of the load. OLC-PB1000 draws 3,450 W; on a 220 V single-phase supply that is over 15 A continuous, which most small kitchens and shops are not wired to carry. On 380 V three-phase the same load is a normal circuit. The three smaller models run on 220 V / 50 Hz single phase as standard at 770–1,760 W. Other voltages and 60 Hz are set at build time — tell us the destination country and we confirm.
Yes, more than a cube machine does. The drum is a thin, cold, continuously wetted metal surface — hard water scales it, and scale on the drum directly costs you output and eventually blocks the blade. A filter ahead of the machine is part of the installation, not an accessory. Send us a water analysis and we will tell you what the supply needs before you ship.
The drum and trough need a clean and sanitise cycle every shift in food use — that is a hygiene requirement, not a machine limitation, and it is why the trough is built to be drained and reached without tools. Production is CE and ISO 9001 certified; tell us the models you intend to import and we confirm certificate coverage in writing before you commit. Lead time is quoted per order because it moves with the shipping schedule.
Send the product, the daily tonnage, how long it has to hold and the site voltage. You get a model recommendation, FOB price and lead time — usually within 12 hours on a working day.