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The Tönnies Group has constructed 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 turn into extra efficient than ever following renovations at the web site: Now, energy-saving Atlas Copco variable-speed vacuum pumps are used to create vacuum conditions at two central stations.What was once a combined slaughterhouse has become a “bovine animal competence center”: For a long time, cattle and pigs have been slaughtered and butchered on the identical time in Badbergen on behalf of different firms. 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 main website in Rheda-Wiedenbrück. In 2020, Tönnies Beef reopened the positioning after intensive conversion and renovation. The Group invested round 85 million euro in the constructing and state-of-the-art know-how at this website in a small city in northern Lower Saxony, between Oldenburg and Osnabrück. The slaughtering, butchering and ending processes are based mostly on the newest cooling know-how, machine-based butchering and highly automated selecting and transport traces.
Several hundred tons of meat go away the site every day and 95% of the animal – practically every little thing – is utilized. This allows Tönnies to satisfy completely different consuming habits all over the world: While German shoppers prefer lean beef, meat with a thick layer of fats is popular in Scandinavia and other European nations, in accordance with the manufacturer’s web site.
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“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 main customers. For this objective, Tönnies has installed a number of packaging traces in the halls: Seven thermoforming roller machines and two robot-operated shrink-wrap packaging machines. Efficient Atlas Copco vacuum pumps are used within the techniques to vacuum pack the tubular/shrink luggage and thermoformed plastic trays, and to keep the meat actually recent. They work in two stations and supply forming, low and fine vacuums.
The thermoforming machines equipped by vacuum station 1. There are four Atlas Copco GHS 585 VSD+ variable-speed, oil-injected screw vacuum pumps that evacuate the air up to forty mbar (absolute), as well as four small boosters that decrease the strain even further to three mbar. One of the screw pumps provides the forming vacuum for the thermoforming curler machines, which only require around 100 to one hundred fifty mbar for the forming process. The other vacuum pumps on this station are related to the boosters. One of the pumps is redundant at any given time: This can be the case within the second vacuum station, which contains 5 GHS 730 VSD+ pumps that remove the air from the shrink baggage on the Cryovac lines. “The dimension of the cuts of meat is automatically detected by our systems,” explains Waldemar Metzger. “The packaging machines then mechanically insert the cuts of meat into the tubular luggage, that are cut to the right dimension under a vacuum bell.” Under the hood, all ambient air is then evacuated in two levels until the strain is round three mbar (fine vacuum).
“With the forming vacuum – or thermoforming vacuum, as it’s additionally referred to as – the plastic tray is fashioned 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 film: The software closes and seals the packaging airtight at 3 to 5 mbar using the fine vacuum. Sorting machines assign the person trays and tubular baggage to bigger packing containers, that are then used to pick custom packing containers for customer orders.
Efficient speed regulation reduces power necessities by a 3rd or more
Waldemar Metzger has been working in Badbergen for 20 years and has been part of the planning and execution levels of changing the blended slaughterhouse to a purely beef operation from the very beginning. This included the choice to purchase Atlas Copco variable-speed vacuum pumps. “As far as technology is anxious, being able to vary the pace of the GHS vacuum pumps is important to us and saves power,” stresses the Tönnies worker. “Compared to fixed-speed machines, you can reliably reduce down power requirements by around a third – even perhaps by half, relying on the range issue.”
The controls on the vacuum pumps have a user-friendly plain textual content show, which also indicates the operating hours and maintenance intervals. Since the Atlas Copco pumps can be related directly to an exhaust system, it was attainable to use air-cooled pumps. According to the producer, this improves the local weather of the room; it’s no longer essential to have the additional room cooling often required when using central vacuum methods.
The project was implemented on website by and with Oliver Hornberg, Managing Director of Eugen Theis Vakuumtechnik in Werther. He delivered the pumps to Tönnies Beef, prepared to use – including a 400 m pipeline within 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 know-how. 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 could not find a successor. “Our two kids are pursuing other profession paths,” he says. Hornberg himself stays Managing Director even after the corporate was sold to Atlas Copco and is trying ahead to significant development under the umbrella of one of many world’s largest suppliers of vacuum pumps. The company already operates throughout Germany: “From Flensburg within the north to Regensburg in the south and Halle (Saale) within the east,” he says, outlining the attain of his firm: This additionally contains Badbergen within the (north)west, as he generally stops by at Tönnies Beef to hold up the machines.
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