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The Tönnies Group has built its bovine animal competence middle in Badbergen, Lower Saxony. The cuts of beef are vacuum-packed in thermoforming and shrink-wrap machines, a course of that has become more efficient than ever following renovations on the website: Now, energy-saving Atlas Copco variable-speed vacuum pumps are used to create vacuum circumstances at two central stations.What was a mixed slaughterhouse has become a “bovine animal competence center”: For many years, cattle and pigs were slaughtered and butchered on the similar time in Badbergen on behalf of different companies. In 2017, the Tönnies Group took over the site and determined to base its entire slaughtering operation in Badbergen – up till that time, this had taken place on the company’s primary site in Rheda-Wiedenbrück. In 2020, Tönnies Beef reopened the positioning after in depth conversion and renovation. The Group invested around eighty five million euro in the building and state-of-the-art technology at this site in a small city in northern Lower Saxony, between Oldenburg and Osnabrück. The slaughtering, butchering and finishing processes are based on the newest cooling expertise, machine-based butchering and highly automated choosing and delivery traces.
Several hundred tons of meat leave the site every single day and 95% of the animal – virtually everything – is utilized. This permits Tönnies to satisfy completely different consuming habits all over the world: While German customers choose lean beef, meat with a thick layer of fat is popular in Scandinavia and different European international locations, in accordance with the manufacturer’s web site.
Efficient screw vacuum pumps provide forming, low and nice 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 numerous major prospects. For this objective, Tönnies has installed a quantity of packaging lines in 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 vacuum pack the tubular/shrink bags and thermoformed plastic trays, and to maintain the meat really fresh. They work in two stations and supply forming, low and fantastic vacuums.
The thermoforming machines supplied by vacuum station 1. There are 4 Atlas Copco GHS 585 VSD+ variable-speed, oil-injected screw vacuum pumps that evacuate the air up to forty mbar (absolute), in addition to four small boosters that lower the stress even additional to three mbar. One of the screw pumps provides the forming vacuum for the thermoforming curler machines, which solely require around 100 to a hundred and fifty mbar for the forming course of. The different vacuum pumps on this station are connected to the boosters. One of the pumps is redundant at any given time: This can also be the case within the second vacuum station, which includes five GHS 730 VSD+ pumps that take away the air from the shrink baggage on the Cryovac traces. “The size of the cuts of meat is mechanically detected by our systems,” explains Waldemar Metzger. “The packaging machines then automatically insert the cuts of meat into the tubular bags, which are minimize to the correct dimension under a vacuum bell.” Under the hood, all ambient air is then evacuated in two stages till the stress is round three mbar (fine vacuum).
“With the forming vacuum – or thermoforming vacuum, as it’s additionally referred to as – the plastic tray is formed by slicing the foil roll,” says the Technical Manager. After filling the shell with smaller items of meat, the shell is “wed” to the cover movie: The tool closes and seals the packaging airtight at 3 to 5 mbar utilizing the nice vacuum. Sorting machines assign the person trays and tubular bags to bigger packing containers, which are then used to select custom packing containers for customer orders.
Efficient velocity regulation reduces energy requirements by a third or more
Waldemar Metzger has been working in Badbergen for 20 years and has been a half of the planning and execution levels of changing the combined slaughterhouse to a purely beef operation from the very beginning. This included the decision to buy Atlas Copco variable-speed vacuum pumps. “As far as expertise is worried, having the flexibility to differ the velocity of the GHS vacuum pumps is important to us and saves vitality,” stresses the Tönnies worker. “Compared to fixed-speed machines, you’ll find a way to reliably cut down power necessities by around a 3rd – perhaps even by half, depending on the diversity factor.”
The controls on the vacuum pumps have a user-friendly plain textual content display, which also indicates the working hours and maintenance intervals. Since the Atlas Copco pumps can be linked directly to an exhaust system, it was potential to make use of air-cooled pumps. According to the producer, this improves the climate of the room; it’s not essential to have the additional room cooling often required when utilizing central vacuum methods.
The project was applied on web site by and with Oliver Hornberg, Managing Director of Eugen Theis Vakuumtechnik in Werther. He delivered the pumps to Tönnies Beef, ready to make use of – including a 400 m pipeline within the transformed slaughterhouse, measuring in places to a diameter of DN 300. His company, Eugen Theis GmbH, was based in 1984 and makes a speciality of vacuum technology. 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 discover a successor. “Our two children are pursuing other career paths,” he says. Hornberg himself stays Managing Director even after the company was offered to Atlas Copco and is wanting ahead to important progress under the umbrella of one of many world’s largest suppliers of vacuum pumps. เกจวัดแรงดันภาษาอังกฤษ operates all through Germany: “From Flensburg in the north to Regensburg within 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 sometimes stops by at Tönnies Beef to maintain up the machines.
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