Vemag
Vemag was exhibiting its new alginate sausage casing equipment. The CC215 is an attachment for the production of sausages in this type of casing. The products can either be discharged on a hanging unit or individually on a belt. According to Vemag, the alginate line has been developed with extra long dividing belts for these sausage types, and has a portioning rate of up to 800 pieces per minute. It is ideally suited to fresh grilling sausage products, such as breakfast sausages, merguez, snack sticks, or even long smoked sausages.
The firm was also showcasing its high-speed mince portioning and loading kit, as well as its automatic meatball loader – which won a gold award in the International FoodTec Awards at the show. The MMP223 mince portioner is suitable for beef, pork and poultry mince production lines, and claims to divide mince into "precisely weighed portions at high speed, while reducing giveaway to an absolute minimum". It is capable of up to 200 portions of 500g each, per minute. While the meatball loader (AML273), is an attachment for Vemag vacuum fillers, producing round or elongated products that are then loaded into trays.