Hiland-Roberts Ice Cream: Plant Specifications

The Hiland-Roberts Ice Cream Plant is located in Norfolk, Nebraska, at:

700 East Omaha Avenue
Norfolk, NE 68701
Telephone: 402-371-3660
Fax: 402-371-0243

The Hiland-Roberts Ice Cream Company in Norfolk is the site of Nebraska’s only active ice cream production facility. We produce almost 10 million gallons of ice cream and frozen dessert products annually. Package sizes range from 3-gallon cans for ice cream dipping shoppes to 10-ounce malt cups for street vending and convenience stores.

We may be able to produce your quality frozen dessert products as well. Review our plant production specifications (below) and call Mitch Ayers at 1-800-373-6455 for more information on how we might serve your needs.

The Specs:

Premium Quality Fast-Hardening Systems: (Zero core temperature in six to eight hours.)

• “Tri-tray” & “Rollerbed” frozen dessert hardening systems
• Zero core temperature in less than eight hours.

Filling Equipment:

• APV 588-square tuck-tite filler with glued heat seal
• Sawvel 700E plastic 4- and 5-quart bucket filler
• Sawvel 3-gallon filler
• APV 456N-gallon plastic round filler
• MP585 Modern Packaging inline 3-cup drop
• 2300 06 Nestyle Filler
• Great Lakes overwrap capable of 4 and 6 ½ gallon bundles
• Ink Jet Printers for time and date coding of all products
• Crepaco fruit feeders for accurate mixing of inclusions

Freezer Capacities:

• 260 Crepaco Freezer
• 360 Gram Freezer
• 460 Crepaco Freezer

Refrigeration:

• State-of-the-art PLC controlled engine room
• Over 1000 tons of refrigeration capacity
• Chart recording of all freezers to insure a constant �20 degree temperature

Cold Storage:

• Seven story state-of-the-art high rise freezer

Hiland-Roberts freezer storage capabilities: 100 truck loads of ice cream

Mix Making Facilities:

• 5 – 6,000 gallon cream and condense tanks
• 2 – 30,000 raw milk silos
• 55,000 gallons of pasteurized mix storage