Making fish fit the tin
An example of cuts made by the BAADER 218
At ESE this year, Baader introduced its new BAADER 218; a heading, nobbing and cutting machine for small herring, sardines and sardinella.
The machine has been designed so that these small fish fit easily into the tin.
The machine cuts the head first and the vacuum nobbing device follows the head cut device and sucks the guts by means of vacuum. This is followed by a fish counter which gives the manager exact information about the amount of processed fish.
The tail cutter cuts the tail at an exact position and the piece cutter can cut the fish into pieces. The customer determines if the position of this cut is done from the head end or from the tail end in a defined length.
The customer can also decide to use vacuum nobbing or mechanical nobbing.
The working range is approximately 14-25cm at the speed of up to 400 trays per minute.
This machine can be used as a standalone version with manual feeding.
Baader says that its R&D department will work on the filleting section soon and an automatic feeding section will be another further development.
Four of these machines have been sold to PepsiCo in Brazil.
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