Danish manufacturer of processing industry solutions, Kroma A/S, is striving to reduce the processing cost for each kilo of processed fish.
The company says that its gutting machines can clean more than 95% of the fish so they do not require manual cleaning afterwards. The problem in the gutting process is to find the 5% of the fish that is not totally clean. So far it has been necessary for an operator to look at all fish, to define if the fish was clean or not.
More than 95% of the fish goes straight on to further processing or packing. This means the processor has to spend time and money on quality control but there is no value in this process for end-users.
At SPE Kroma will present the new VISIOMASTER, developed together with Danish company IH food. As the name indicates, the system operates by means of a vision camera. The camera takes a photo of the gutted fish while the fish still is inside the gutting machine. An industrial computer analyses the photo to determine if the fish is clean or not. If the fish is clean it will go directly to packing or further processing. The fish which requires manual inspection will go to a table where an operator will perform the final cleaning.
Kroma will also be presenting its GUTMASTER 750, which is able to process both seabream and seabass, at the SPE show.
