Conveying success
UPM Conveyors recently carried out a challenging system update for the brand Pinnacle Foods, a specialist in the meat and poultry processing industry.
Pinnacle selected UPM Conveyors to design the complete product handling system with UPM accepting total responsibility for the complete turnkey project. This involved the handling of meat and poultry from goods in through to band saws (including inspection and sieving), dicers, flakers, mincers, undersize screening to an octofrost freezer tunnel and a multihead weigher/bagger and packing/dispatch. The resulting output is three tons per hour on a 24 hours a day, seven days a week operation.
All aspects of manufacture were carried out in-house at UPM, including fabrication programming and control build based on a central PLC touch screen to interface all belt conveyors to the multihead weigher. As a result, any problem that might arise can be managed through diverting the implicated product.
