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The Tönnies Group has built its bovine animal competence center in Badbergen, Lower Saxony. The cuts of beef are vacuum-packed in thermoforming and shrink-wrap machines, a course of that has turn out to be extra efficient than ever following renovations at the web site: Now, energy-saving Atlas Copco variable-speed vacuum pumps are used to create vacuum situations at two central stations.What used to be a mixed slaughterhouse has become a “bovine animal competence center”: For many years, cattle and pigs had been slaughtered and butchered at the same time in Badbergen on behalf of other companies. In 2017, the Tönnies Group took over the location and decided to base its whole slaughtering operation in Badbergen – up till that point, this had taken place at the company’s primary site in Rheda-Wiedenbrück. In 2020, Tönnies Beef reopened the site after extensive conversion and renovation. เกจวัดถังแก๊ส invested around 85 million euro in the constructing and state-of-the-art expertise at this web site in a small town in northern Lower Saxony, between Oldenburg and Osnabrück. The slaughtering, butchering and ending processes are based mostly on the most recent cooling technology, machine-based butchering and highly automated selecting and shipping strains.
Several hundred tons of meat go away the location every day and 95% of the animal – practically every thing – is utilized. This allows Tönnies to fulfill different eating habits around the globe: While German consumers choose lean beef, meat with a thick layer of fats is in style in Scandinavia and other European countries, according to the manufacturer’s web site.
Efficient screw vacuum pumps present forming, low and fine 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 purpose, 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 techniques to hoover pack the tubular/shrink luggage and thermoformed plastic trays, and to keep the meat really recent. They work in two stations and supply 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 up to 40 mbar (absolute), as nicely as four small boosters that lower the strain even additional to 3 mbar. One of the screw pumps provides the forming vacuum for the thermoforming roller machines, which solely require round one hundred to 150 mbar for the forming process. The other vacuum pumps in this station are linked to the boosters. One of the pumps is redundant at any given time: This is also the case within the second vacuum station, which includes five 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 automatically insert the cuts of meat into the tubular bags, that are reduce to the proper dimension beneath a vacuum bell.” Under the hood, all ambient air is then evacuated in two phases until the strain is around three mbar (fine vacuum).
“With the forming vacuum – or thermoforming vacuum, as it’s additionally known as – the plastic tray is shaped by slicing the foil roll,” says the Technical Manager. After filling เกจวัดแรงดันไทวัสดุ with smaller items of meat, the shell is “wed” to the quilt movie: The software closes and seals the packaging hermetic at 3 to five mbar using the fine vacuum. Sorting machines assign the individual trays and tubular baggage to bigger bins, which are then used to choose customized boxes for buyer orders.
Efficient speed regulation reduces energy requirements by a third or extra
Waldemar Metzger has been working in Badbergen for 20 years and has been a half of the planning and execution phases of converting the mixed 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 expertise is worried, with the ability to range the velocity of the GHS vacuum pumps is essential to us and saves energy,” stresses the Tönnies worker. “Compared to fixed-speed machines, you possibly can reliably minimize down power necessities by round a 3rd – maybe even by half, depending on the variety issue.”
The controls on the vacuum pumps have a user-friendly plain textual content show, which also signifies the working hours and maintenance intervals. Since the Atlas Copco pumps could be linked on to an exhaust system, it was attainable to make use of air-cooled pumps. According to the producer, this improves the local weather of the room; it’s now not essential to have the extra room cooling often required when using central vacuum techniques.
The challenge 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, prepared to make use of – including a four hundred m pipeline within the converted slaughterhouse, measuring in places to a diameter of DN 300. His company, Eugen Theis GmbH, was founded in 1984 and specializes in vacuum expertise. In 1999, Hornberg took over the enterprise from its founder, Eugen Theis, and 20 years later, in late 2021, sold it to Atlas Copco after he could not find a successor. “Our two youngsters are pursuing other career paths,” he says. Hornberg himself stays Managing Director even after the company was sold to Atlas Copco and is wanting forward to important progress beneath the umbrella of one of the world’s largest suppliers of vacuum pumps. The company already operates all through Germany: “From Flensburg within the north to Regensburg within the south and Halle (Saale) in 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 take care of the machines.
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