MEATing POINT Magazine: #08/ 2016

IFFA REVIEW - INTERVIEWS
Carl Erik Taxbro,
Vice President Sales,
SCANBELT A/S
What kind of innovations did you showcase
at IFFA?
At IFFA 2016 ScanBelt launched the new FlexiTop
conveyor belt for the food industry. The FlexiTop
is able to handle a heavy load rate, while the
surface of the belt avoids blunting of knives. It
is a 2-component moulding that combines the
superior pulling force of a Nylon base with the great
cut- and impact resistance of Thermoplastic top.
What makes your solutions unique and what
differentiates you from your competitors?
In order to come up with a product that meets the
requirements in the global food industry, ScanBelt
has cooperated closely with several key customers in
the product development stages. This has resulted
in a design with conical links for easier cleaning
around the rod/hinge area, which is an essential
function in the food industry, where the demands
for products with a high level of hygiene are strict
“ The FlexiTop has an improved cutand
impact resistance, high pulling
force and is extremely easy to clean.”
Since some of the top trends addressed
at this years IFFA were resource and cost
efficiency, as well as sustainability, what is
your contribution to these topics?
The FlexiTop has an improved cut- and impact
resistance, high pulling force and is extremely easy to
clean. Combined, these characteristics results in high
durability and drastically reduce the life cycle costs.
What would your future challenges in terms
of innovative solutions that would meet your
customer requirements?
We do not foresee any challenges in this respect
as we generally facilitate advice and manufacture
the customers’ own ideas as they are the experts –
but we do not suggest or create solutions without
input from customers.
www.scanbelt.com
Frank Loeffler,
Sales Director,
Inotec Gmbh
What kind of innovations did you showcase
at IFFA?
For the IFFA 2016, we have relaunched almost
all equipment with a new design which gives not
only a better function but also better handling
and an outstanding hygiene. For example, the
New Vario Mix Technology, works with two
interacting spirals moving in oppo-site directions.
Any product gets best mixing result in a minimum
of time. A new process sequence control allows
to vary the vacuum level during each step
independently. This pressure pulsation al-lows a
better absorption of the brine into the meat for
cooked ham production. Also new for the Va-rio
Mix Technology are high speed motor drives
which can be used for certain products with a
high percentage of dry ingredients (example Tofu).
Following the blending process, the mixed
product is fed into an emulsifier .The INOTEC
emulsifier is equipped with a 3 or 5 stage cutting
head automatically controlled by a PLC in order
to get a constant ,high quality emulsion and to
reduce the wear on the knives and hole plates.
The mo-dular design of Inotec emulsifiers allows
also the use of the new Inotec Speed Spin system
which gives an additional milling effect for
certain products. The range of emulsifiers ,with
an output from 1000 kg up to 12 000 kg per
hour, includes machines with different hoppers,
pump fed inline machines as well as vacuum
emulsifiers with step less adjustable vacuum levels.
Inotec has also launched the new Giromatic
IGS 2 as a simple tying machine specially for
high speed tying of products in natural casings.
Together with the proven Giromatic IG5 Inotec
offers the widest range of machines for this
high product safety portioning technology. The
product sepa-ration by thread is not only used
for high quality salami products but can also be
used for fine minced sausages. Tying is a cost
efficient way of portioning caliber up to 70 mm,
the hanging loops are created from the same
thread and even heavier products are closed
safely by cross tying which can be also separated
with Inotec’s sausage separation machines. The
thread can also be used as presentation tool
for the product – the presence of the product is
artisanal and hand crafted.
The INOTEC sausage cutting machines have
been developed for cutting straight, as well
as curved sausages in natural, collagen and
artificial casings .An inlet conveyor belt takes the
product and sends a signal to the knife motor
control. The sausage diameter is automatically
adjusted from 15 to 52 mm on the display. The
step less adjustable transport unit can reach up
to 2,1 meter per second and the 3 winged knife
can realise up to 1800 cuts per minute. Products
may start from a minimum length of 20 mm.
The design of the INOTEC cutting machines
incorporates the highest hygiene and safety
standards for an easy operation and cleaning.
With the new Inotec cutting machine WT 99
TWIN with 2 independent cutting lanes the
cutting of sausages is even more efficient: One
operator may work the double capacity.
Along with all these innovations , we have
introduced a complete new design with a new
operation philosophy “INOTEC touch iT”, which
allows a unique safety and complete traceability
of the production, more precision and better
machine performances. All parameters can
be configured on a wide 10.6” touch screen –
operated only by symbols.
What makes your solutions unique and what
differentiates you from your competitors?
The design, functionality and performance of
our machines sets us apart from our competitors.
Since some of the top trends addressed at this
year’s IFFA were resource and cost - efficiency,
as well as sustainability, what is your contribution
to these topics?
Better machine performances, for example,
increased transport speed at link cutters from
1,8 m/s to 2,1 m/s, improved cutting set designs
at emulsifiers together with variable speed drive
(by fre-quency converter) of the emulsifier’s main
motor and better flexibility. Less changeover times
of the cutting sets in case of product changes
and thanks to the frequency converter start up
less amperage peaks at the machine start up.
What would be your future challenges in terms
of innovative solutions that would meet your
cus-tomers requirements?
In general , our future challenges would be
oriented in steady improvement in automation
and meeting our customers requirements.
www.inotecgmbh.de
14 www.meatingpoint-mag.com | 2016