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Vanmark’s hydrocutters pump product in water through a fixed array of stainless steel cutting blades. The hydrocutter skid provides quality and durability in an easy-to-install, compact integrated system. Its user-friendly, flexible operation and sanitary design make the hydrocutter skid essential for processors. Some key features include: · Pumps product in [...]

Short asparagus, protuberances, fouling, curved or crooked bars: asparagus growers and processors always have these problem using conventional knife cutting technology. The new process is so far unique in the world of asparagus, assures managing director Hermann Neubauer, who will demonstrate the latest version of the high-tech line at the [...]

Last week on QSRweb sister site, Pizza Marketplace, one Washington State pizza restaurateur discussed his hopes to use a soon-to-be-installed automated pizza assembly line to grow his Zaucer brand in earnest. Now all the way across the country in Louisiana, southeastern U.S. salad QSR, Salad Station, is hoping its use [...]

Recently, Sormac launched the spiral washer type SW-80 for capacities up to 3,000 kg/hr. Based on the successful Sormac SW-50, the SW-80 can wash sliced various (non-)floating vegetables such as ice berg, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, broccoli and many more.Product is washed intensively in the wash tank, which optionally can be [...]

JBT Corporation, a technology solutions provider to the global food and beverage industry, and food safety technology company SmartWash Solutions™ have announced the start of a new European alliance between the two companies, which has been developed to bring an innovative combination of science, technology and engineering to fresh-cut produce [...]

Key Technology has introduced the VERYX® belt-fed digital sorters. According to the company, VERYX is the world’s only belt-fed sorter that can inspect product entirely in-air with top and bottom sensors that are designed to detect and eliminate foreign material, adding that the new machine can be changed over to [...]

A plant to handle and dispatch 150,000 heads of lettuce a day all year round, with high precision and homogeneity? Robotics and automation are one of the hallmarks of the Murcian company El Dulze, a pioneer in the implementation of high-precision machinery and cutting-edge robotics for its production, handling and [...]

JBT Corporation (NYSE: JBT), technology solutions provider to the global food and beverage industry, has announced the commercial introduction of the FTNON CoreTakr. An innovative robotic system, the CoreTakr uses advanced 3D camera technology to accurately and speedily remove unwanted cores from lettuce heads used in the fresh-cut and ready-to-eat [...]

Verdeagua, a lettuce producer based in Montevideo, Uruguay, has recently put into operation a processing line for making ready-to-eat salads. The sensitive products are supplied to supermarkets and gourmet restaurants, ensuring a high standard of quality. The processing line machines were delivered by KRONEN after the Verdeagua team had been [...]

The objective of Urschel International is to cut vegetables in an increasingly effective way reducing waste to a minimum. At Macfrut, the company presented a cutting machine boasting 14 cutting stations compared to the traditional 8."The 14 cutting stations improve efficiency making processing faster with larger yields and fewer waste," [...]