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Quotes - Engineering - SalesLooking up your frame by make
Replacement buyers usually know two things for certain: the make on the nameplate and the fact that the plates are tired. This page starts from the make. Each entry below leads to a page on that make's dairy frames and tubular units as owners meet them, what to read off the nameplate, and what we need to quote new plates, gaskets or a complete equivalent unit.
Make first, then the frame
The make narrows the search but does not finish it. One maker may have built dozens of plate patterns over the decades, in several gaps and chevrons, so the serial number, plate count and compression dimension still decide the match. Model names on these pages come from each maker's own published literature; where a maker does not publish a field, the page leaves it out rather than guessing.
If your make is not listed, the same method works from a nameplate photo and a few measurements.
Have these ready
- Make and model as stamped on the nameplate
- Serial number and year of manufacture
- Plate count per section, with a hanging list if you have one
- Tightened pack length
- What the exchanger does now: product, flow and temperatures
covered by the look-up pagesTen makes are covered on nine pages, chosen from the frames dairy plants ask us about most, and a frame from any other make is matched the same way.
Makes in the look-up
The 10 makes below, on nine pages, are the ones dairy plants ask us about most often. Brand names are the trademarks of their owners and are used here only to help you cross-reference the equipment on your floor. Each name opens that make's page.
Plate pasteurizer makes
Alfa Laval frames turn up on many HTST lines; owners usually need new plates and gaskets for one section, matched by series, size and plate count.
Plate and tubular makes
AGC frames are found in many dairy and cheese plants; owners typically need new plate packs, or a new unit once the duty grows.
A line HeatX sells
Paul Mueller builds Accu-Therm plate exchangers that HeatX supplies new; this page gives sizing help and leads to our Mueller line site.
No legible nameplate?
How the look-up pages are put together
Each make's page follows the same order: the dairy equipment that make has published, what an owner should read off the frame, nameplate and plates, and what we need to quote new parts or a new unit. The pages name products only as their makers publish them and carry no drawings, photographs or logos of that equipment.
Apart from Paul Mueller, who's equipment HeatX sells, nothing on these pages implies a relationship with the makes named; the cross-reference is there to help you identify your frame. What we supply is new equipment sized to your duty and matched to the frame or footprint you already have.
Where a maker's published data leaves a gap, such as the channel gap or port size of an older pattern, the page says the field was not confirmed instead of filling it in. Those are the fields we confirm from your photos and measurements before any plates are ordered.
Makes change hands. Several names stamped on nameplates in dairy plants today belong to companies that have since merged, been acquired or renamed their product lines, which is why the APV page carries two names; the Kelvion and Sondex page instead covers two separate makers that plant records often confuse. The nameplate on your frame is still the right starting point, whatever the company is called now.
If the frame in front of you matches none of the makes here, or its nameplate is gone, start from the frame itself: the same measurements identify it.
The make narrows the search; the serial and plate count finish it
Model names come from each maker's published literature, and unconfirmed fields are flagged as such.
Request a QuoteLook-up questions
Yes. The make pages list published product families, not every pattern ever built, and older or regional models are often missing from current literature. The serial number, a plate photograph, the port size and the plate count per section are what actually identify the plate, so send those with the make and we will work from them.
They are specified to. New plates are matched to the frame's hanger and port geometry, gap, chevron and compression dimension, which we confirm from your nameplate, photos and measurements before ordering. Where a dimension cannot be confirmed from what you send, the quote says so, and we resolve it before the order is placed.
For two reasons. APV is now carried by SPX Flow, and equipment keeps its original nameplate after a merger or renaming, so owners search by either name. Kelvion and Sondex are different: two separate makers with separate owners, shown on one page because plant records often mix them up and the page shows how to tell the frames apart.
No. HeatX supplies Paul Mueller plate exchangers new, so that page gives sizing and selection help for Accu-Therm plate units in dairy duty, with the details to have ready before a request, and points to our Mueller line site for the full range of models and options.
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