Thurne has added a new meat portioner to its range of class-leading slicers and portioners.

The PortionX Meat Portioner was developed with high volume case ready beef and pork processing in mind, and utilises a combination of new, innovative technologies to provide significant performance improvements.

The portioner uses new product conditioning and scanning technology to ensure consistent handling of variable product and to optimise portioning performance for superb weight control and maximum yield.

Multi-dimensional active forming technology – patent pending – enhances the portioner’s ability to gently form primals of variable size. This eliminates the need for dedicated forming moulds for each primal. Only a small number of change parts is needed to handle a variety of primals within a size range, with fewer changeovers required.

Dynamic primal positioning and active product support ensure optimum product control for maximum yield and excellent laydown. The gentle blade action of the orbiting head produces high-quality, evenly cut portions – from individual and layout steaks to clearly defined shingled groups of thinner cuts such as minute steaks.

The PortionX meat portioner can be integrated into existing lines, where processors benefit from a reduction in downstream manual handling. The steaks and shingled groups produced are ready for packing with high on-weight rates, eliminating the need for manual collation and styling, and minimising rework required to achieve target pack weights.

The IBS 1000 Bacon Slicer offers high quality retail and wholesale back, belly and middle bacon slicing for manual packing operations in a compact footprint.

The slicer was developed based on proven technology to suit small and medium sized processors who are looking to improve slice quality while increasing throughput and yields.

Features & Benefits

• High speed bacon blade of up to 1650rpm for consistent slice thickness and integrity
• Small, space saving footprint
• Fast reload of <6 seconds
• Gripper fed for minimum butt ends (80-100g typical)
• Yield improvement of 1.5 to 2%
• Hygienic, stainless steel construction to ‘ready to eat’ product standards; CE marked
• Simple to operate and maintain
• Optional Underleaver for layout and platter food service drafts

Vision Option

• Adjusts the thickness of each slice to significantly improve first time on-weights, reducing rework rates and giveaway
• Slicer on-weight percentages in excess of 90%
• Anticipated giveaway of 1% or less for on-weight packs
• For best performance, a process weigher is recommended to provide weight feedback

Fully Integrated Systems

Thurne supplies slicing and packing lines for the production of all common retail and food service bacon packs. As part of The Middleby Corporation, we can cover all steps of the production process: from pressing and loading of bacon primals to slicing and packing drafts into thermoformed packs, with optimum performance.

You benefit from:

• A safe, balanced and effective line
• Maximum performance
• Single source supply and support
• Simplified line certification

The Thurne PolySlicer 1000 offers versatility, slicing accuracy and high throughput. The slicer is the ideal choice for processors who require a compact, versatile and easy to use machine with a large slicing aperture for efficient multi-log slicing of stacks, shingles or wafer-thin slice packs.

• High speed involute or orbital blade option
• High performance involute blade running at up to 1500 rev/min
• Orbital blade for delicate or large products running at up 600 rev/min
• Product retraction eliminates sliver slices
• Variety of pack presentation formats
• Compact footprint
• Optional Interleaver can be retrofitted
• Optional Variety Conveyor can be retrofitted
• Optional Stacker for tall stacks <100mm

Interleaver Option

• Independent cutting of paper and of product
• Optimisation of the product blade for the application and increased blade life
• Twin lane operation running at up to 700rpm
• Can interleave single slices within a shingle or stack (<80mm) and/or insert a sheet under complete groups (underleave)
• Controllable paper positioning for excellent presentation
• Easy access for quick reel change and cleaning
• Available for retrofit at a later stage

Fully Integrated Slicing Systems

Thurne supplies fully integrated slicing and packing lines for cooked and cured meat packs.

You benefit from:

• A safe, balanced and effective line
• Maximum performance
• Single source supply and support
• Simplified line certification

The Thurne IBS4600 has established itself as the industry frontrunner slicing solution for precooked bacon processing. Four independent feeds, four independent blades, four independent cameras, combined with Thurne vision technology has forged a bacon processing revolution known the world over.

IBS4600 is the world’s first slicer to have 4 independent feeds, each with its own vision system that gives weight control of individual slices, regardless of belly size. High yields with low giveaway are the norm thanks to the precision and control that delivers constant weight portions with remarkable consistency. End user and consumer appeal is enhanced because the end product has a uniform appearance, texture and quality and can be sorted into fixed weight /fixed count packs.

Undercooking is completely eliminated further enhancing accuracy of finished, cooked slice weight. Likewise, over packing is eliminated, giveaway is greatly reduced and an extremely good return on investment is realized.

Features & Benefits

• Users are experiencing double digit percentage increases in raw slices per pound
• Achieves in excess of 7% more Grade 1 cooked slices
• High pack weight accuracy with extremely low giveaway
• Low maintenance cost
• Fast ROI
• Interface with microwave oven for consistent cooked weights
• Available for 3 lane and 4 lane operation

The Thurne one bacon slicer is a dedicated high performance slicer for turkey and belly bacon applications and provides unprecedented yield and throughput to retail and food service bacon producers.

This dedicated bacon slicer produces consistent slices day in and day out, without thick-thin slices or slivers, while providing great first time on-weight performance and low giveaway for drafts of fixed weight and slice count.

Features & Benefits

• Produces in excess of 100 retail drafts per minute
• Produces up to 140 10-slice food service sheets per minute
• Top-spec cut face vision system with fat & lean detection enables slicer on-weight percentages up to 95% as well as grading functions
• Giveaway of less than 1% for on-weight packs
• Accurate, continuous feed with compact autoloader maximises throughput
• Selection of discharge options enables optimization of retail and food service drafts
• Debris conveyor delivers trim and end pieces outside of the machine guarding
• Remote Electrical Cabinet
• Use of optional Thurne Loading Module enables buffering of up to 12 bellies

Fully Integrated Bacon Slicing Systems

Thurne supplies slicing and packing lines for the production of all common retail and food service bacon packs. As part of the Middleby Processing & Packaging Brands, we can cover all steps of the production process: from pressing and loading of bacon primals to slicing and packing drafts into thermoformed packs, with optimum performance.

You benefit from:

• A safe, balanced and effective line
• Maximum performance
• Single source supply and support
• Simplified line certification