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The Tönnies Group has built its bovine animal competence heart in Badbergen, Lower Saxony. The cuts of beef are vacuum-packed in thermoforming and shrink-wrap machines, a course of that has turn out to be more efficient than ever following renovations at the site: Now, energy-saving Atlas Copco variable-speed vacuum pumps are used to create vacuum situations at two central stations.What was a combined slaughterhouse has turn out to be a “bovine animal competence center”: For a long time, cattle and pigs were slaughtered and butchered at the similar time in Badbergen on behalf of different companies. In 2017, the Tönnies Group took over the location and decided to base its entire slaughtering operation in Badbergen – up until that time, this had taken place at the company’s major site in Rheda-Wiedenbrück. In 2020, Tönnies Beef reopened the location after extensive conversion and renovation. The Group invested around eighty five million euro in the constructing and state-of-the-art know-how at this site in a small town in northern Lower Saxony, between Oldenburg and Osnabrück. The slaughtering, butchering and finishing processes are primarily based on the newest cooling know-how, machine-based butchering and extremely automated choosing and delivery lines.
Several hundred tons of meat leave the location daily and 95% of the animal – virtually every thing – is utilized. This permits Tönnies to fulfill different consuming habits all over the world: While German shoppers choose lean beef, meat with a thick layer of fats is popular in Scandinavia and other European countries, in accordance with the manufacturer’s website.
Efficient screw vacuum pumps present forming, low and fantastic vacuums
“The cuts weigh between 1.5 and 9 kilograms after butchering,” explains Waldemar Metzger, Technical Manager of Tönnies Beef GmbH & Co. KG in Badbergen. The cuts are vacuum-packed for various major clients. For this purpose, Tönnies has put in a quantity of packaging lines within the halls: Seven thermoforming curler machines and two robot-operated shrink-wrap packaging machines. Efficient Atlas Copco vacuum pumps are used in the systems to hoover pack the tubular/shrink baggage and thermoformed plastic trays, and to maintain the meat really contemporary. They work in two stations and supply forming, low and fine vacuums.
The thermoforming machines provided by vacuum station 1. There are four Atlas Copco GHS 585 VSD+ variable-speed, oil-injected screw vacuum pumps that evacuate the air as a lot as 40 mbar (absolute), in addition to four small boosters that decrease the stress even additional to 3 mbar. One of the screw pumps supplies the forming vacuum for the thermoforming roller machines, which solely require round 100 to a hundred and fifty mbar for the forming course of. The other vacuum pumps in this station are linked to the boosters. One of the pumps is redundant at any given time: This can be the case in the second vacuum station, which contains 5 GHS 730 VSD+ pumps that remove the air from the shrink luggage on the Cryovac strains. “The dimension of the cuts of meat is mechanically detected by our systems,” explains Waldemar Metzger. “The packaging machines then routinely insert the cuts of meat into the tubular baggage, that are minimize to the right measurement underneath a vacuum bell.” Under the hood, all ambient air is then evacuated in two phases until the stress is around three mbar (fine vacuum).
“With the forming vacuum – or thermoforming vacuum, as it’s additionally referred to as – the plastic tray is shaped by chopping the foil roll,” says the Technical Manager. After filling the shell with smaller pieces of meat, the shell is “wed” to the duvet film: The software closes and seals the packaging airtight at three to five mbar using the fine vacuum. Sorting machines assign the individual trays and tubular bags to bigger bins, that are then used to choose customized packing containers for buyer orders.
Efficient velocity regulation reduces power requirements by a 3rd or extra
Waldemar Metzger has been working in Badbergen for 20 years and has been a half of the planning and execution phases of converting the mixed slaughterhouse to a purely beef operation from the very starting. This included the decision to purchase Atlas Copco variable-speed vacuum pumps. “As far as technology is anxious, being ready to vary the velocity of the GHS vacuum pumps is essential to us and saves vitality,” stresses the Tönnies worker. “Compared to fixed-speed machines, you’ll be able to reliably reduce down power requirements by round a 3rd – perhaps even by half, depending on the range issue.”
เกจวัดแรงดันแก๊ส on the vacuum pumps have a user-friendly plain text display, which also indicates the working hours and upkeep intervals. Since the Atlas Copco pumps can be connected directly to an exhaust system, it was potential to make use of air-cooled pumps. According to the manufacturer, this improves the climate of the room; it is not essential to have the additional room cooling usually required when using central vacuum systems.
The challenge was implemented on site by and with Oliver Hornberg, Managing Director of Eugen Theis Vakuumtechnik in Werther. He delivered the pumps to Tönnies Beef, ready to use – including a 400 m pipeline in the transformed slaughterhouse, measuring in locations to a diameter of DN 300. His company, Eugen Theis GmbH, was based in 1984 and focuses on vacuum expertise. In 1999, Hornberg took over the enterprise from its founder, Eugen Theis, and 20 years later, in late 2021, bought it to Atlas Copco after he couldn’t find a successor. “ pressure gauge 2.5 นิ้ว are pursuing different career paths,” he says. Hornberg himself remains Managing Director even after the company was offered to Atlas Copco and is wanting ahead to significant growth under the umbrella of one of the world’s largest suppliers of vacuum pumps. The firm already operates throughout Germany: “From Flensburg in the north to Regensburg in the south and Halle (Saale) within the east,” he says, outlining the reach of his firm: This additionally contains Badbergen within the (north)west, as he typically stops by at Tönnies Beef to take care of the machines.
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