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The Tönnies Group has built its bovine animal competence heart in Badbergen, Lower Saxony. The cuts of beef are vacuum-packed in thermoforming and shrink-wrap machines, a course of that has turn into more 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 used to be a mixed slaughterhouse has turn into a “bovine animal competence center”: For a long time, 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 site and determined to base its complete slaughtering operation in Badbergen – up until 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. 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 latest cooling expertise, machine-based butchering and highly automated picking and shipping traces.
Several hundred tons of meat leave the site every day and 95% of the animal – practically every thing – is utilized. This allows Tönnies to satisfy completely different consuming habits around the world: While German shoppers choose lean beef, meat with a thick layer of fat is well-liked in Scandinavia and different European international locations, in accordance with the manufacturer’s website.
Efficient screw vacuum pumps provide 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 เกจ์ลมsumo . The cuts are vacuum-packed for numerous major prospects. For this function, Tönnies has put in several 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 methods to hoover pack the tubular/shrink luggage and thermoformed plastic trays, and to maintain the meat really recent. They work in two stations and provide forming, low and nice 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 as much as 40 mbar (absolute), in addition to four small boosters that lower the stress even further to three mbar. One of the screw pumps provides the forming vacuum for the thermoforming roller machines, which solely require round one hundred to a hundred and fifty mbar for the forming course of. The other vacuum pumps on this station are connected to the boosters. One of the pumps is redundant at any given time: This is also the case in the second vacuum station, which includes five GHS 730 VSD+ pumps that remove the air from the shrink bags on the Cryovac lines. “The dimension of the cuts of meat is routinely detected by our systems,” explains Waldemar Metzger. “The packaging machines then automatically insert the cuts of meat into the tubular baggage, which are minimize to the correct dimension beneath a vacuum bell.” Under the hood, all ambient air is then evacuated in two phases till the strain is around 3 mbar (fine vacuum).
“With the forming vacuum – or thermoforming vacuum, as it’s also called – 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 quilt movie: The tool closes and seals the packaging airtight at three to 5 mbar using the fine vacuum. Sorting machines assign the individual trays and tubular luggage to larger bins, that are then used to select customized boxes for customer orders.
Efficient speed regulation reduces power requirements by a 3rd or more
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 starting. This included the choice to purchase Atlas Copco variable-speed vacuum pumps. “As far as expertise is anxious, having the flexibility to vary the pace of the GHS vacuum pumps is essential to us and saves power,” stresses the Tönnies employee. “Compared to fixed-speed machines, you can reliably minimize down vitality requirements by around a 3rd – even perhaps by half, relying on the diversity issue.”
The controls on the vacuum pumps have a user-friendly plain text display, which also signifies the operating hours and maintenance intervals. Since the Atlas Copco pumps may be connected on to an exhaust system, it was attainable to use air-cooled pumps. According to the manufacturer, this improves the climate of the room; it is no longer necessary to have the additional room cooling often required when using central vacuum systems.
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, ready to use – together with a 400 m pipeline in the transformed slaughterhouse, measuring in places to a diameter of DN 300. His firm, 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 couldn’t find a successor. “Our two kids are pursuing other profession paths,” he says. Hornberg himself remains Managing Director even after the corporate was offered to Atlas Copco and is wanting forward to vital development beneath the umbrella of one of the world’s largest suppliers of vacuum pumps. The company already operates throughout Germany: “From Flensburg in the north to Regensburg within the south and Halle (Saale) in the east,” he says, outlining the reach of his firm: This additionally consists of Badbergen in the (north)west, as he generally stops by at Tönnies Beef to take care of the machines.
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