Scotsman Industries: Sixty Years of the Ice Machine

Founded in 1950, Scotsman Industries first began manufacturing a variety of products including lanterns, chests, heaters, and a single model commercial-sized ice machine. By 1960 the company's focus had shifted to solely producing ice machines, still a relatively new market.

Over sixty-years later Scotsman Industries is one of the largest ice-machine manufacturers in the world. The company produces over three-hundred models of ice-makers as well as other related products such as storage bins and water dispensers. The company has authorized distributors and agents in more than one-hundred countries across the globe. Not only does the company service a geographically diverse clientele, Scotsman Ice Systems offers products specifically targeted to an array of different industries.

Scotsman Ice Systems offers products designed for health care environments, educational institutions, and other businesses as well as machines built for personal, residential use. Within the restaurant business, Scotsman offers ice machines specifically designed for all levels of the industry, from convenient stores and fast food joints, to casual and fine dining restaurants.

Due to Scotsman's wide array of customers, it only makes sense that the company offers a variety of different styles of ice including cubes, flake, superflake, scale, nugget, dice, contour ice. Out of all these the nugget variety has the most devoted fan base, so much so, Scotsman launched the "Luv the Nug" campaign, an online community dedicated to the appreciation of the "original chewable ice". At www.luvthenug.com, ice-chewing enthusiasts can locate restaurants close to home with Scotsman nugget ice machines, request their favorite restaurants to start serving nugget ice, and even buy Nug merchandise.

In addition to producing a wide variety of products, Scotsman Industries strives to create energy efficient machines. The Scotsman Prodigy offers over sixty models that meet Energy Star qualifications. The Prodigy's "smart ice machine technology" uses decidedly less energy than competing machines. The Prodigy is also fitted with automatic controls that allow customers to monitor and control the machine's production. Environmentally friendly innovations such as these cut consumption and cost at the same time. In addition to the sixty Prodigy models, another twenty-five Scotsman ice machines not only meet Energy Star requirements, but are rated for maximum Consortium for Energy Efficiency (CEE), which exceeds even Energy Star standards. Because of the company's dedication to energy efficiency, Scotsman Industries was awarded the 2011 Award for Energy-Efficient Product Design by Energy Star. Also, in 2010 the company earned the award for Overall Best in Class by Foodservice Equipment & Supplies magazine.

For over sixty years, Scotsman Industries has produced Ice machines for both residential and commercial customers. With over three-hundred models, locations in over one-hundred countries, and products specifically designed to best fit a wide variety of industries, Scotsman Ice Systems has become one of the largest ice machine companies in the world.

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