BioHof Niedermayer chooses a Sormac potato processing line
Green pastures and picturesque villages, interspersed by forests and gently rolling hills with panoramic views of the countryside. This more or less describes the landscape in the ‘Weinviertel, the ‘Wine Quarter’. This area is one of the four quarters of Lower Austria, with the other three being Waldviertel, Mostviertel and Industrieviertel. Near the small town of Hollabrun, on the western limit of Weinviertel, about 40 kilometres to the north west of Vienna, is the village of Aspersdorf. This village is home to BioHof Niedermayer, a farm that grows potatoes organically. The farm is run by Martina Niedermayer: “Successive generations of farmers have grown potatoes on our farm. We are located in the most important potato growing region of Austria. This status is emphasised by the concept of ‘Genuss Region’( Region of Delight), a concept which firmly focuses on local and regional Austrian specialties.”
To ensure the quality of the carefully cultivated organic potatoes is maintained from the field, via storage and then to the kitchen - and ultimately the consumer's plate - modern technology is essential. “On the one hand because consumers increasingly demand better quality, and on the other because there is a growing demand for peeled and processed potatoes”, according to directors Martina and Johannes Niedermayer.
To meet this demand, BioHof Niedermayer has recently built a new hall, where their own potatoes are stored, pre-processed and processed. For this new production hall, Sormac supplied an entire peeling line consisting of a de-stoner SO, a MS-Combi knife peeler, a wet dosing hopper, an inspection table, a cutting table and an automatic weighing machine AFW-40/DB.
The MS-Combi makes a separate pre-peeling and peeling machine superfluous. Plus, the potatoes do not have to travel from one machine to another, which saves space and costs. In the first section of the MS-Combi the potatoes are pre-peeled by pre-peeling plates, before they are peeled in the peeling drum. The compact MS-Combi is particularly interesting for small and medium sized companies active in potato processing .