Manufacturing Process

Quality Assurances:

• Lang Ice Company uses Chicago city water as the foundation of its ice making
  
  
• Lang Ice Company uses several water treatment technologies
  • Culligan water softening
  • Filtering through reverse osmosis
  • UV treatment

After the ice is manufactured, it is transferred along an extensive conveyor system that dries the ice before it is packaged. Lang Ice also conveys all ice over screens to sift the snow and crushed ice particles away from the ice cubes. This process assures that Lang Ice has the highest quality packaged ice cubes in the market. Through the use of new packaging technology and automation, all retail sized packages are filled, master packed, palletized, and stretch-wrapped by machines to ensure consistent quality.

ASI Food Safety Auditing Program  (Independent Sanitation Testing)

Packaged Ice Quality Control Standards (PIQCS)

For the Food Safety and Quality of Manufactured Packaged Ice
Standards based on Good Manufacturing Practices per IPIA and FDA guidelines.  PIQCS quality control standards regulate:

• Personnel Hygiene
• Plant and Grounds
• Sanitary Operations of Facilities
• Equipment and Utensils
• Processes
• EPA Drinking Water Standards
• Bacteriological testing
• Warehousing and Distribution
• Supervision and Record Keeping Program
• Block Ice Manufacturing Provisions
• Recall Guidelines
• Pest Control Guidelines
• Independent Inspection Auditors Assure Industry Standards

Production Facts

• Manufacture up to 400 tons of ice daily
• Storage capacity of over 2,500 tons, in multiple locations
• Carry full-insurance coverage including property, casualty, business continuation, product liability, and umbrella policies.
• In business over 80 years
• One of the largest and most modern ice facilities in the mid-west