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Kronen :

Germany: Innovative cutting & coring technique for lettuce with flat stem

The newly ddeveloped top & tail machine TT 450 is designed for coring lettuce with flat stem (e.g. Frisee, Endive/Escarole, Romaine/Cos) and cutting leaf tips.

It allows - with a simultaneously improved yield of up to 6 % - a considerable increase in productivity by up to 110 % per person (Frisee and Endive/Escarole).



The TT 450 is characterised by its easy-to-use-operation:
  1. The operator (2 persons possible) places the lettuce heads onto the automatic infeed belt.
  2. The lettuce will be transported to the cutting blades and is kept in place with down holders for a correct and soft product guiding.
  3. The lettuce core and the leaf tips are cut in one pass, which might be necessary with dry leaf tips or brown discoloration. Length of stem (10-60 mm) and of leaf tips (120-450mm) can be variably set. You can choose both functions together or only the coring function.
The TT 450 is equipped with an automatic waste separation which can be perfected by appropriate waste and outfeed belts.



The solid industrial machine is completely made of stainless steel AISI 304 and can easily be cleaned and maintained due to (7) hinged doors and removable covers.

Kronen says one of its strong points lies in its ability to respond to customers individual requirements, implementing further developments and appropriate adaptions.

At any time, customers can make an appointment to come to the company with their products. They are tested in a demonstration process, allowing the interested parties to be convinced, directly on site, of the performance of the machines, their future-proofness and accessories. The machines can also be specifically adjusted, set and optimised according to particular customer wishes.



Stephan Zillgith, the managing director of the company, says of his corporate philosophy, that he sees cooperation between the Kronen design engineers and the customers’ wishes as the cornerstone of success. "Nowadays the demands are more difficult, since the pressure to develop innovative products and consequently the variety of products is becoming increasingly great due to unceasingly new, faster and more unusual trends. Continual further development, precise observance and analysis of customer wishes along with a constant presence at diverse trade fairs at home and abroad – wherever our customers are – and application-oriented demonstrations are essential in order to consolidate our market leadership in the area of salad and vegetable processing machines for medium production volumes and further expand for larger facilities. Accordingly, air passengers, for example, on almost all of the airlines in Europe and overseas benefit via the airline catering operations from our machines’ innovative technology, as do the customers of major international fast food chains. Our strengths lie in fruit, vegetable and salad processing, but we are also by all means able to offer advantageous solutions for meat, fish and poultry processing."

"With this approach, whether it is a matter of individual machines or complete production lines, today we are regarded as a reliable solutions specialist and competent partner in the foodstuffs technology arena."

For more information: www.kronen.eu
Esther Müller
KRONEN GmbH
Tel: +49 (0)7854 9646-47
Fax: +49 (0)7854 9646-547
esther.mueller@kronen.eu
www.kronen.eu
 
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