Optimize your food processing operations with voestalpine HPM Meat Grinding Technology

When it comes to optimizing food processing operations, most experts agree that a key factor is the minimization of interruptions due to maintenance breaks. All too often, operations are interrupted to replace or service worn parts. Considering the high demands on tools and material in the production process, this isn’t surprising. If you run a food processing operation, you might also agree that these breaks weigh heavily on your total cost of operation.

But why accept the ordinary performance of standard tools when there is a smarter solution—one that enables increased efficiency and higher profit? voestalpine High Performance Metals (HPM) offers a range of Engineered Products designed for pure performance, enabling you to optimize your food processing operation. You can find out about our Engineered Products for Food Processing here.

In this article, we discuss one such Engineered Product: voestalpine Meat Grinding Technology. Read on to learn more about this technology and how it can keep your food processing operation one step ahead.

MEAT GRINDING TECHNOLOGY—VERSATILE DESIGN FOR ALL MACHINE TYPES AND BRANDS

voestalpine Meat Grinding Technology is designed for diverse applications such as ground beef, salami stuffing, or burger patty production and fits all common machine types and brands. The knives and hole plates are made from voestalpine premium materials and incorporate state-of-the-art heat treatment and PVD coatings.

Regardless of the machine type in which it is used, the technology offers the following customer benefits:

• Significant reduced total costs of ownership
• Higher machine availability and efficiency
• Extended part life
• Prolonged regrinding cycles
• Improved cuttings results
• Less product contamination
• Reduced energy consumption

Depending on your operational needs, the technology can be used in both grinding machines and stuffing machines.

PERFORMANCE OVERVIEW

GRINDING MACHINES

voestalpine Meat Grinding Technology for meat grinding machines is designed for bulk production and preproduction. The technology works with most common industry machine brands, including Laska, GEA, Weiler (Provisur), Seydelmann, Kolbe, K+G Wetter, etc.

Using voestalpine Meat Grinding Technology, our customers have kept their grinding machines in operation for 102 days before regrinding of the parts was needed. This is an enormous improvement from previously having to send off the standard industry kit for regrinding every 2 days.

You can find out more about voestalpine Meat Grinding Technology and how was able to reduce their operational costs by a remarkable 45%

STUFFING MACHINES

Our Meat Grinding Technology for stuffing machines is designed to improve the production of, for example, minced meat products and sausage products. Again, it is available for all common industry machine brands include Handtmann, Vemag, Frey, Risco, etc.

Using voestalpine Meat Grinding Technology in the production of minced meat, the parts were in operation for 7 weeks before regrinding was needed. Using standard technology, they had to stop times on average for regrinding in the same period.

In sausage production, customers using voestalpine Meat Grinding Technology kept their stuffing machines in operation for 360 hours before regrinding was needed. Using standard technology, they had to regrind the parts after just 6.5 hours of production.

Some of the products that can be produced using voestalpine Meat Grinding Technology for stuffing machines