Idaho Steel started producing automated potato processing equipment in 2010 to be more competitive, and this is the company’s third generation of the Nex-Gem Lab Former since then.Ĭhristensen is thrilled to spread the Idaho name all over the world as he showcases new technology to customers. He bought the company from Don Lortz in 1991. Christensen’s grandfather, Lynn Bradshaw, was a frequent Idaho Steel customer who worked at a potato plant in Firth. The company began as a stainless steel fabrication shop in 1918, its website says. RELATED | This machine helps prepare potatoes for dehydration and a local company has the largest one in the world Its most famous machine is the world’s largest drum dryer, which helps prepare potatoes for dehydration. Idaho Steel Products has been a leader in the potato processing equipment industry since the 1970s, according to Christensen. Multiple clients in eastern Idaho use the Nex-Gem, but it’s a device that’s available to any food processor. If it doesn’t have those things and is not being taken care of, it won’t turn on.” It knows if it has oil to run the bearings. “It knows if it has water running, if its bearings change. “This machine is incredible,” says Christensen. See what it’s like in the animation above. It can shape 20,000 pounds of potatoes an hour. A dough-like mixture of potatoes is poured into the machine for forming. The Nex-Gem is the final step of the process. Multiple machines are involved in cleaning, peeling, cutting, cooking and mixing potatoes. “People who go to a McDonald’s anywhere in the world (will get a) hash brown patty made on the machine that was (built) in Idaho Falls.”
“Those who make hash browns for McDonald’s, for example, are always trying to come up with interesting shapes that can be released in the market,” Christensen says. He tells it allows customers to experiment with different shapes. Jon Christensen, Idaho Steel Product’s vice president of sales and marketing, is at a Las Vegas trade show this week showcasing the device.
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