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Marel Food Systems
Stands 5453 and 5541, Hall 4.

Live demonstrations of advanced, innovative machines and systems from AEW Delford, Carnitech, Dantech, Marel and Scanvaegt will feature on stands 5453 and 5541 at this year’s Seafood Processing Europe exhibition in Brussels.

“Seafood Processing Europe provides us with an excellent opportunity for us to demonstrate our innovative fish and seafood equipment and complete processing systems to processors,” says Director of Sales and Vice CEO of Marel Food Systems, Lárus Ásgeirsson. “Marel started 25 years ago in the seafood industry and we have been dedicated to supplying processors worldwide with machines and turnkey systems ever since. Now, by utilising the best from each of our brands we can offer our customers more exciting new products than ever before,” he added.

HIGHLIGHTS

Innova: Full production process control
Marel Food Systems has recently released Innova, a revolutionary new software designed for intelligent production control.  The technology is built on the extensive software development experience of Marel Food Systems’ global brands, AEW Delford, Carnitech, Marel and Scanvaegt and is designed to be compatible with all Marel Food Systems machinery.
Innova enables the modern food processor to optimise profits and overall production performance. It covers the complete value chain in the production cycle, from reception of supplies to product dispatch, providing all key performance indicators (KPI) for each stage and traceability from door to door. Innova monitors and controls critical KPIs in real time that can include yields, throughput, efficiency, giveaway, loss of sales, quality, stock levels and movements, traceability and profitability. Innova’s modular design provides maximum flexibility for small operations and plant wide systems.

Advanced thermoformer and tray loading systems
Marel Food Systems will be exhibiting two advanced tray loading systems designed to optimise efficiency and reduce labour costs.

The Cut & Pack Salmon Processing System comprises a Scanvaegt ScanPortioner B36 portion cutter and an AEW Delford Intelligent Portion Loading Robot (IPL Robot). This line is capable of loading as many as 160 salmon portions per minute directly into thermoformers.

The ScanPortioner B36 controls the line by first scanning the product to determine precisely where the cuts are to be made to produce fixed weight portions. It then creates sufficient space between the portions for the IPL Robot to pick them up. A vision system identifies the exact position and orientation of the portions and sends the information to the IPL Robot which automatically - and gently - picks up the portions and loads them directly into thermoformers for packing. No manpower is needed.

Marel’s IPM III and Quickloader combination makes it possible to carry out loading with desired orientation and/or portion combinations. The dual tray conveyor can simultaneously handle both portrait and/or landscape tray orientation and several different loading options are available to optimise production efficiency.
 
Labour costs are greatly reduced as only 2-3 operators are required to run the system. It is compact in size and designed to keep up with a medium sized packing machine (approximately 40 trays per min/per lane). A dual lane version is also available with a capacity of 2 x 40 trays per minute/per lane.

Next generation freezing technology
This year’s SPE show will also see the launch of the new Super Flow Easy Clean freezer from Dantech. This new freezer is movable, cost-effective, environmentally friendly and, thanks to a freezing chamber that can be raised mechanically, can be cleaned in just ten minutes. This saves considerable time and effort and and reduces excessive water consumption.
The freezer will reduce overall freezing costs by at least an estimated 15% thanks to lower energy consumption and a faster freezing process. The unit is governed by a combination of impingement airflow technology and the highly energy efficient turbulent airflow. Temperature and pressure can be differentiated thanks to the division of the freezer into separate chambers.

Automatic deheading and filleting of salmon
One of Carnitech Salmon’s most recent developments, the CT 2620 Deheading Machine, will be integrated with the CT 2630 Filleting Machine and a small trimming line.

The CT 2620 works in four steps. First, the salmon is placed in the infeed carriage and the operator activates the machine. The salmon is automatically deheaded, after which the tail is cut off and the fish automatically fed into the filleting machine with no handling required. By automating the whole process, labour costs are reduced, and overall yield is optimised.

Intelligent trimming
Designed to trim salmon fillets automatically, the Marel ITM is ideal for high value trimming of fillets into pre-defined shapes. The ITM uses an advanced vision system that ensures a high precision cut, making the entire process – from measuring to trimming – efficient and productive.
Using the latest in colour and vision technology, the ITM automatically evaluates each fillet before trimming, then calculates the most economic cut configuration based on weight, shape, and colour grade parameters.  Multiple trimming definitions are available simultaneously and the machine can trim up to 40 fillets per minute.

… and much more
Other exciting and innovative processing equipment to be featured on 5453 and 5541 will include Weigh Price Labellers from AEW Delford, Pinbone machines and Slicers from Carnitech Salmon, a Target and Speed Batcher from Marel and a StripCutter, Multihead Weigher, graders and infeed systems from Scanvaegt.

Contact information
For more information and high resolution images, please contact:
jesper.hjortshoej@marel.com
Tel: +45  89 304 356, mobile: +45 2440 2048