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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 process that has become more efficient than ever following renovations on the site: Now, energy-saving Atlas Copco variable-speed vacuum pumps are used to create vacuum circumstances at two central stations.What was a blended slaughterhouse has turn out to be a “bovine animal competence center”: For many years, cattle and pigs had been slaughtered and butchered on the same time in Badbergen on behalf of other companies. In 2017, the Tönnies Group took over the location and determined to base its whole slaughtering operation in Badbergen – up until that point, this had taken place at the company’s primary website in Rheda-Wiedenbrück. In 2020, Tönnies Beef reopened the site after in depth conversion and renovation. The Group invested around 85 million euro within the constructing and state-of-the-art expertise at this website in a small town in northern Lower Saxony, between Oldenburg and Osnabrück. The slaughtering, butchering and ending processes are based mostly on the latest cooling technology, machine-based butchering and highly automated choosing and shipping traces.
เพรสเชอร์เกจ4นิ้ว of meat go away the positioning every single day and 95% of the animal – practically every little thing – is utilized. This permits Tönnies to satisfy different eating habits around the globe: While German customers favor lean beef, meat with a thick layer of fat is in style in Scandinavia and other European countries, in accordance with the manufacturer’s website.
Efficient screw vacuum pumps present 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 main customers. For this function, Tönnies has put in several packaging traces in the halls: Seven thermoforming curler machines and two robot-operated shrink-wrap packaging machines. Efficient Atlas Copco vacuum pumps are used within the systems to hoover pack the tubular/shrink bags and thermoformed plastic trays, and to keep the meat really recent. They work in two stations and provide forming, low and fine vacuums.
The thermoforming machines equipped by vacuum station 1. There are 4 Atlas Copco GHS 585 VSD+ variable-speed, oil-injected screw vacuum pumps that evacuate the air as much as forty mbar (absolute), as properly as 4 small boosters that lower the pressure even additional to 3 mbar. One of the screw pumps provides the forming vacuum for the thermoforming curler machines, which only require around 100 to 150 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 also be the case within the second vacuum station, which includes 5 GHS 730 VSD+ pumps that take away the air from the shrink baggage at the Cryovac lines. “The size of the cuts of meat is routinely detected by our systems,” explains Waldemar Metzger. “The packaging machines then mechanically insert the cuts of meat into the tubular baggage, which are reduce to the right measurement under a vacuum bell.” Under the hood, all ambient air is then evacuated in two stages till the stress is around 3 mbar (fine vacuum).
“With the forming vacuum – or thermoforming vacuum, as it’s also called – the plastic tray is formed by chopping the foil roll,” says the Technical Manager. After filling the shell with smaller pieces of meat, the shell is “wed” to the cover film: The tool closes and seals the packaging airtight at 3 to five mbar utilizing the nice vacuum. Sorting machines assign the person trays and tubular baggage to larger bins, that are then used to choose custom boxes for customer orders.
Efficient speed regulation reduces energy necessities by a third or extra
Waldemar Metzger has been working in Badbergen for 20 years and has been part of the planning and execution phases of converting the blended slaughterhouse to a purely beef operation from the very beginning. This included the choice to buy Atlas Copco variable-speed vacuum pumps. “As far as know-how is concerned, being able to range the pace of the GHS vacuum pumps is crucial to us and saves vitality,” stresses the Tönnies employee. “Compared to fixed-speed machines, you’ll have the ability to reliably minimize down vitality requirements by round a 3rd – maybe even by half, relying on the diversity issue.”
The controls on the vacuum pumps have a user-friendly plain textual content show, which also signifies the working hours and upkeep intervals. Since the Atlas Copco pumps may be linked directly to an exhaust system, it was potential to use air-cooled pumps. According to the producer, this improves the local weather of the room; it’s not necessary to have the extra room cooling often required when using central vacuum systems.
The challenge was implemented 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 – together with a 400 m pipeline within the converted slaughterhouse, measuring in locations to a diameter of DN 300. His company, Eugen Theis GmbH, was founded in 1984 and makes a speciality of vacuum expertise. In 1999, Hornberg took over the enterprise from its founder, Eugen Theis, and 20 years later, in late 2021, offered it to Atlas Copco after he could not find a successor. “Our two children are pursuing other profession paths,” he says. Hornberg himself remains Managing Director even after the company was sold to Atlas Copco and is wanting ahead to vital development beneath the umbrella of one of the world’s largest suppliers of vacuum pumps. The firm already operates throughout Germany: “From Flensburg within the north to Regensburg within the south and Halle (Saale) in the east,” he says, outlining the attain of his company: This also includes Badbergen in the (north)west, as he sometimes stops by at Tönnies Beef to take care of the machines.
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