Vezet:
Vezet is one of the largest fruit and vegetable processing businesses in the Netherlands and leads the market in freshly sliced, ready-to-cook vegetables. Vezet aims to be the best and most progressive developer, producer and highly valued supplier of fruit and vegetables that have been processed to prepare them for immediate use. It is precisely for this reason that Vezet has opted to co-operate with Sormac for machinery to dry their leaf vegetables. Vezet recently expanded its machinery park with three, new large type SC-940 centrifuges from Sormac and a smaller SC-740.
Working innovative centrifuge:
Bert Haffmans, owner and director of Sormac, explains how this innovative centrifuge works in a few words:
“In a leaf vegetable centrifuge with a vertical drum, the leaves move upwards as the drum revolves. The leaves bunch together, which can cause bruising. With a horizontal drum it's difficult to distribute the leaves evenly, so the leaves end up in an uneven layer with a lot of damage as the result.
The Sormac centrifuge SC-940 has an inclined, completely smooth drum, without a central shaft or other protruding parts that could damage the leaves. This drum is suspended in a magnetic field, so it is kept in place and rotates evenly and smoothly. The centrifuge is loaded while the drum is slowly rotating, to achieve a uniform distribution of leaves over the inside of the drum. Thanks to the drum's size, the leaves form a very thin layer. As the drum revolves faster only slight, even pressure is exerted on the leaves which keeps the risk of damage to the product in the drum to a minimum. At the end of the cycle the drum slows, and helped by the incline the product gently glides onto the out-feed belt.
The rotational speed of the centrifuge is settable, so it can be set to the optimal speed for various types of leaf vegetable. Although the machine processes in batches, a constant product flow product to and from the centrifuge is possible as the in-feed belt for the following batch is loaded while the previous batch is bring dried.”
Sormac is proud that a renowned company like Vezet has chosen the centrifuge that takes the best care of delicate products!
As from April 1st 2010 spare parts are available from US-stock for our US and BC/Canada customers.
Please contact:
REYCO SYSTEMS INC.
P.O. Box 1120
Meridian ID 83680-1120
Mr. Alan Page
Telephone: 001-208 888 2449
Fax: 001-208 887 9948
E-mail: apage@reycosys.com / info@reycosys.com
Sormac Improvement System (SIS) on e.g. onion peeler!
For machinery construction companies there is no better or more reliable development partner than their own customers. This fact has been recognised by Sormac for years – which is why the Sormac Improvement System [SIS] has been set up. This is a databank which accurately registers all the remarks and suggestions from customers (and also from our own employees) about Sormac machines and analyses the information so it can be used to improve the features of machines in the future. This system means that Sormac machines are partly the result of the experience and input of numerous users. Sormac is grateful to its customers for their positive criticism and suggestions for improvements!
Alva Verse Vruchten in Hasselt, Belgium is a wholesaler in fruit and vegetables, and includes an integrated vegetable cutting facility operating under the name Fresja. Alva Verse Vruchten is both a distributor and a fruit and vegetable processor. Thanks to excellent cooperation with local growers and with the major Belgian auctions, fresh produce is supplied seven days a week. Their customer base includes retail organisations, care institutes and the processing industry. The produce is supplied unprocessed and processed. Pre-sliced vegetables are produced daily in the company's own, modern 2,000 m² cutting plant, which operates fully according to HACCP and BRC standards.
Alva processes a lot of onions, namely aromatic Spanish onions. The company already had a Sormac line dating from 1999 with a USM-1 for this purpose. After 10 years of faithful service, the company wanted to replace this machine by one with more possibilities and greater ease of operation. Thanks to years of experience in peeling onions, the directors Vanstraelen at Alva knew exactly what they wanted. It gives us great pleasure to see that practically all their ideas have been incorporated in the USM-X100.
Sormac boosts its profile as a builder of dependable machinery and the market leader!
The annual Fruit Logistica trade fair in Berlin, the leading event for the fruit and vegetable sector, attracted a record number of visitors in three days. Once again, the Sormac stand was buzzing with visitors. Various new, technologically advanced machines were presented, including:
- The world’s most silent onion peeler;
- The centrifuge for drying leafy vegetables with a larger drum (higher capacity) and even less risk of damage to the produce.
Extension delivery program:
To top all this, Sormac presented a new processing line aimed at the lower market segment for a broad range of produce (including carrot pieces, leek slices, chopped onions, Julienne potatoes). Other attention grabbers were the GWM vegetable washing machine, the HS centrifuge, the BSM belt cutter and the DC dicer. Visitors to the stand could see the processing machines in action.
Special customer evening:
On the second day of the show, Sormac hosted a special evening for its customers in the famous Funkturm in Berlin. The reactions were overwhelmingly positive. Mr van Avendonk from Groenteverwerking Bladel commented: “Sormac arranged everything right down to the smallest details, they do more than simply construct machinery. They are a team that thinks with the customer and even thinks two steps ahead. Leading in technology certainly applies to Sormac.”
Centrifuge SC-740: from good to better!
At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Bob Beamon performed a jump that would land him at a distance of 8.90 metres. A distance no one was expected to beat. Until Mike Powell jumped 8.95 metres in 1991 in Tokyo. The moral of this story: even if it's good, it can still get better.
With this in mind Sormac recently presented an updated version of the SC-740 centrifuge. This machine can be used as a stand-alone unit, but also harmonises perfectly with a Pulstar salad washer in a salad leaf processing line.
The SC-740 has an ingenious filling system with infeed belt, so the product is always distributed evenly and at an optimal filling thickness over the drum. This fact and the almost horizontal alignment of the drum mean that no excess pressure is ever exerted on the delicate produce, so the leaves are not damaged.
The new centrifuge SC-740 features a modified cover design with a self balancing air buffer system. Combined with the patented suspension of the drum with magnetic axial bearing, this creates a more stable salad centrifuge than was previously available. An innovative blasting technique ensures that each and every leaf exits the drum clean after each charge.
The improvements added to the SC-740 centrifuge prove once again that Sormac is continually engaged in innovation: from good to better!
In the coming months Sormac will be attending the following trade fairs:
Bejo Days
28 September 2 October Warmenhuizen, the Netherlands
Agroprodmash
11-15 October Moscow, Russia
Foodtech-Packtech
12-14 October, Auckland, New Zealand
IPA
17-21 October Paris, France
PPI
19-21 October San Antonio, USA
Fruit Attraction
20-22 October Madrid, Spain
PackExpo
31 October-3 November Chicago, USA
FoodPharmaTech
2-4 November Herning, Denmark
Interpom
28-30 November2010, Kortrijk, Belgium
MS-Combi: one machine, dual processes
Knife peeling potatoes offers many advantages. For example, a smooth surface, which contributes to a longer keepability of the product and reduces discoloration of the potatoes. The dreaded ‘second skin’ that often occurs when scraping young potatoes, is hardly ever seen with knife peeling. The appearance of knife peeled potatoes is as hand peeled, a feature greatly appreciated by consumers.
Originally the choppy surface of the product was a disadvantage of knife peeling. This occurred if the potato was not rotated properly during the peeling process. Sormac’s MS-1T has, however, solved this problem. To obtain the bests results, knife peeling must be combined with pre-peeling. This requires an extra carborundum peeler. This is not such a problem if large volumes of potatoes have to be processed, but it can be awkward for medium and small sized companies, as a second machine - and extra space- is required. Plus the products have to be conveyed from one machine to the other, which also involves extra time and costs.
To make knife peeling an interesting option for small and medium sized companies, Sormac has come up with the solution in the shape of the MS-Combi. The potatoes are pre-peeled in the first part of the drum of this machine using especially developed pre-peeling plates. The product is subsequently peeled in the peeling drum in the same way as in the MS-1T. The compact and efficient MS-Combi is ideally suited for small and medium sized peeling companies as its dual purpose processing action offers the perfect alternative to using two machines.
For the technical design of the Sormac brush polisher type BRR the good experience gained with the successful CRR revolver peeler was used. Details that have proven to be good, such as the double bearings in the rollers have been copied. The brush rollers are easily and quickly changed, without any need to remove the bearings, thanks to a unique clamp system. The rotating brush polisher from Sormac has been officially presented at the Fruit Logistica. If you missed, visit the Anuga Foodtec, where this machine also will be present. Hall 10.1, stand G020.
Sormac’s range of products already included the WOS-1 and -1A and the WOA-3 and -4 for carrot topping and piece cutting. The WOS-2A has now also joined the range. This machine is ideal for processing long, thin carrots, such as the Imperator.
When mechanically peeling carrots it's important to feed them into the machine in the same longitudinally aligned direction, with the pointed end first. For carrots that only need topping, it's better if all the carrots are aligned in the same direction. To position the carrots after singulation, Sormac has developed the highly innovative Carrot Flipper type CF-60. This machine is the inventive answer to market demands which require increasing process automation.
