On track with goal 26 6/2013 Foto: MPS Schlachten & Zerlegen Slaughtering & Jointing To meet this goal, in 2011 they built a completely new abattoir with car-cass coolers for the sole purpose of slaughtering pigs and sows. This hall is located next to the current abattoir whe-re different species can be slaughtered. Having finished construction, they are now able to simultaneously slaughter up to 40 cattle and 250 pigs (125 sows) an hour, thereby doubling the current fig-ures for fresh meat production. The building is now 4,000 m² larger, of which 1,000 m² is for collecting and pro-cessing by-products, such as blood and intestines, 1,000 m² is for the new slaugh-tering area, and 2,000 m² is for the quick chill tunnel system and a large number of carcass cooling rooms. This extension represents an investment of more than € 10 million for Snellman. The abattoir The abattoir for pigs and sows includes ergonomic conveyor systems for remov-ing white and red organs, elevating plat-forms for the majority of operators and non-slip floors in all areas. The building also uses daylight in the building wher-ever needed in combination with suffi-cient neon lighting, and employs a mul-tiple approach with sanitary sluices from the various social, changing and sanitary areas. Snellman’s slaughtering line is from MPS meat processing systems in the Nether-lands, while the group stunning sys-tem Backloader and the automatic live-stock handling system from Butina, the robotised carcass splitting system from Durand, and the effluent treatment system from MPS Aqua, all MPS subsidiaries. The system includes: A CO2 group stunner including automa-tic separation and loading of livestock. A vertical (hanging) scalding tunnel system in combination with the double Tarzan dehairing machines. A complete automatic carcass finishing line with a decontamination furnace for hygienic carcass production. Inkjet stamping for carcass track and trace. Automatic separation and removal of in-edible materials at various points during the slaughtering process. Automatic re-trimming conveyor sys-tems to avoid any cross-contamination risks. A quick chill tunnel conveyor system with various temperature zones. An equaliser carcass cooling zone with fully automatic warehousing and grad-ing selection of over 45 options. Automatic conveyor systems directly con-nect the cooling zone to the cutting and deboning area, thereby ensuring an on-demand delivery of the required carcass grade and number of carcasses to the de-boning area. Gambrels are automatically washed, stored and returned to the gamb-relling tables from the various production rooms. Mr Snellman: “By separating the slaugh-tering lines and creating a specific line per species, we have already noticed an incre-ase in the quality of the final product be-cause of the improved hygienic conditions, which the use of separate carcass cooling systems has also contributed to.” The company has been able to reduce the ope-rational costs per tonnage of fresh meat because of the efficiency of the separate slaughtering lines. Additional efficiency is still possible with the implementation of further slaughtering automation, such as the Durand carcass splitting saw. Snellman Oy in Pietarsaari on the Baltic coast, whose activities include slaughtering and meat processing, is “right on track” with their goal to increase annual production by 17%.
FT_06_2013
To see the actual publication please follow the link above