For the last 20 years the fish processing and canning industries have found that fish have become smaller and smaller, meaning that that yesterday’s processing machines can no longer cope with today’s demand, as the fish are often smaller than originally envisaged by the engineers.
Swedish company Seac has been watching these changes for the last decade and has developed its own brand of processing machines for smaller fish, from approximately 25 fish per kilo down to 100 fish per kilo.
By rebuilding the former Arenco machines, Arenco SFD-300 and Arenco CIS-N, Seac has, over the last eight years, acquired in-depth experience in machines for processing smaller fish. A few years ago the company launched its own series of machines, designated the Seac FPM, on the market. The new Seac FPM-200 nobbing machine is tailor made for each type and size of fish with its own special head and fish pocket to obtain the maximum yield from each fish. The individual head-measuring device secures the best cut just behind the gill fin and compared to a standard two-knives vacuum cutting machine yield is up to 15% higher with the Seac FPM-200 machine, says Ulf Groenqvist, the owner of Seac AB.
The new Seac FPM-400 is an FPM-200 combined with a filleting machine for smaller fish. This has a capacity of up to 380 pockets/minute during heading, gutting and tailing operations and 250 pockets/minute during filleting.
Seac has been working together with Peruza, a Latvian maker of processing machinery for over 20 years and the two companies will be exhibiting together at Seafood Processing Global 2014.
Seafood Processing Global 2014
Stand 4-6335
