poultry processing

poultryprocessing
Efficiencyovercomesa
sticlry problem
An lshida screw feeder multihead
weigher installedat Germany'stop
barbecue-readychickenproducer is
deliveringhugeimprovementsin the
speed and accuracywith which
sticky marinated chicken piecescan
be weighed.
Pre-marinatedchicken for the
huge German barbecue market is a
product that requires the hygienic
handlingbenefia of fully automated
packing,particularly as it is sold in
large quantities at the warmest times
ofyear. However, the product is so
sticky that it has long resisted
attempts to weigh and pack it efticiently and at speed.
StolleGmbH & Co KG of Visbek,
in Lower Saxony is Germany's leading producer of grill-ready chicken.
The companyprocessesfresh and
frozen chicken into a range ofproducts, includingmarinated schnitzels
and breast fillets.
In today's highvolume barbecue
market, large retailers specit pack
weights, such as 5009, and source
them from a number of competing
suppliers.To remaincompetitive,
Stolle needed to carefully control
product giveaway,making weighing
accuracya maior issue.
This led the company to seek
something more accurate than the
semi-automated linear weighing system they had been using,and one
that could deliverhigherspeedsthan
20 weighments per minute, which
InternationalMeat Tooics-
was not enough to meet demand.
The solution from lshidawas its
screw feeder weigher, designedto
handlemovement-resistant
Droducts. Part of lshida'sR-Series,this
l4-head model is equippedwith
screw feeders. made of stainless
steel, rather than the more conventional vibrating feeders for each
weigh head.
Product falls from the dispersion
table at the top of the weigher onto
the screws. ïhese rotate gently, driving the product out towards the
weigh hoppers in a controlled manner. The rounded crosssectionof
the screws and the flexibility of their
spiral structure ensure
that the chicken is not
crushed or damaged.
Additional aids to
keepingthe product
moving are the
weigher's sturdy, nonstick plastic hoppers,
which are fitted with
scraPersto Prevent
product build-up.
Stolle's marinated
chickenline has
speededup to 35
weighmentsper
minute thank to the
new lshida.Accuracy
too has markedly
improved, with giveaway cut by half to
between0.5 and
1.5%.
In addition,the
lshida screw feeder
weigher, with its liftoff, drop-on contact
parts and its watertight body, perfect for hosing down, enablesexcellent hygienewith minimum
downtime. Fullchangeovercleaning,
only requiredwhen there is a
changein the marinadebeingused,
takesunder 30 minutes.
"As we work with marinated
products the layout of the weigher is
a particular advantage,"Norben
Toben, Stolle'stechnicaldirector,
told lnternationalMeat Tooics.
"The result of the installationis
that the company is now significantly
more efticient. Indeed, although the
weigher only functions at full capacity for two thirds of the year, it has
oaid for itselfin lessthan l8
months," Albert Focke, Stolle's marketing manager,added.
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Volume 2 Number I
Quality,productivityand
reliabilityare key factors
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for many applicationsthroughout the
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