At SPG 2015, Danish company Semi-Staal A/S is presenting a new project for shrimp manufacturer NAQUA.
The project includes doubling NAQUAs eight sorting stations, which enables the company to increase its production capacity by 75%.
The new project is part of NAQUAs objective to be the shrimp manufacturer with the most automated production worldwide. Doubling the number of sorting stations will alleviate the bottlenecks in production.
“Each sorting station is manned by 16 employees that sort the shrimps manually. By doubling the length of the stations, it is possible to increase the production capacity by 75%. The sorting stations are both preceded and followed by automated processes and therefore, NAQUA needed to optimise the manual sorting process,” explains Nicolai Meyendorff, managing director of Semi-Staal A/S.
Semi-Staal A/S sent a construction engineer to NAQUA to look at the facilities and to find a solution for obtaining the increased production capacity that the shrimp manufacturer wanted. NAQUA also required that the project was to be carried out without impairing the working conditions for the employees.
“In order to meet this our construction designer has sketched every element of the sorting stations so that when we build the new elements they are matched to the existing. This means that there will be no difference when it comes to height, width and functionality between the existing and the new parts of the stations,” says Nicolai Meyendorff.
The doubling of the sorting stations will be carried out in two-to-three weeks during June 2015. Concurrently, Semi-Staal A/S is carrying out number of other projects for NAQUA.
Seafood Processing Global 2015
Pavilion of Denmark, Hall 4, Stand 6015
