Not just speed
Apart from the recent upgrade to 15,000 bph [250 bpm], other forward-thinking developments at Master Good include the commissioning of brand-new chicken manure fermentation and rendering plants and the acquisition at the beginning of the year of Saga Foods. Saga, based at Sarvar in Western Hungary, produces a range of further processed and sausage products from turkey meat. “We have both deepened and widened our integration. So the ability to upgrade our primary process to 15,000 bph came at just the right time for us”, continues László Bárány. “However, it was not just about speed. Moving to the higher throughput also gave us the opportunity of eliminating bottlenecks and making production easier.”
Enhanced primary process
The main changes to the primary process were the purchase of LineLink transfer units to rehang products from defeathering to evisceration and from evisceration to air chill lines, the acquisition of a VC-20 RS vent cutter and moving the entire evisceration operation to a new, more spacious area. László Bárány is very enthusiastic about the LineLink transfer units. “They are quieter, faster and perform perfectly. We are also impressed with the ATC Active Tension Control system, which manages drive units in our three primary processing conveyor systems. LineLink and ATC give us all the confidence we need to run efficiently and reliably at our new higher line speed.“
Nuova even better at 15,000 bph
With the exception of the installation of a new high-speed vent cutter, existing Nuova evisceration and giblet harvesting equipment was relocated from the old evisceration room. “Our old evisceration department was cramped. This meant too many bends in the overhead conveyor. We now have much more space. Product infeed into the equipment is much improved. This has really helped performance. Our Nuova line now works even better at 15,000 bph than it did at 13,500 bph. Both yields and product quality are up too.”