Sweden 23 July 2018: The Swedish Fish Processing Machine manufacturer – SEAC AB – located on the Royal summer Island of Öland, Sweden (in the Baltic Sea) – is one of the main suppliers for very small fish. During recently demo test for customers all around the world, SEAC made an extraordinary test, to fillet and belly clean small sprats; baltic herring and anchovy down to 6-8 grams. During this test we processed six different end products from the same fish in the SEAC FPM-400 Nobbing and Filleting machine.
All over the world You can find different manufacturers of such and until recently no one had the technique, how to process fish smaller than approx. 25 fish per kilo. The Swedish company – SEAC AB – and it’s founder – Ulf Groenqvist - started to develop fish processing machine for smaller fish. During 2010-2012 SEAC introduced a brand-new machine program, SEAC FPM-machine. SEAC FPM-400 Is today the one and only filleting machine for very, very small fish in the world.
Because fish becomes smaller in the Baltic Sea but also in the Mediterranean Sea from 1990’ and ongoing. The same result has been seen on many more places all over the world. SEAC FPM-400 machine have been on the market for several years and a tremendous development have been made on SEAC machines and results have been made on the technique to process new fish species, but also on new end products.
The tests started with smaller Baltic herring and vendance (40-70 fpk) and next step was sprats and anchovy. Two very popular fish species, but due to its smallness Is very difficult to process by hand. It Is almost impossible to hold a 10-gram fish and then try to fillet it by hand.
Normally no fish processing machine in the world can compare its recovery or (yield) with hand filleting but now when we are close to the edge of smallness of fish a machine works even better than hand filleting. Add then that with a processing machine You avoid injuries during filleting; machine works constant while human gets tired after a while and you improve the hygienic standard inside the factory.
Perhaps most important is the capacity. The machine can do up to 400 fish pockets/min. The SEAC FPM-400 (Nobbing and Filleting machine) reduce the number of operators with up to 40 people.
