If we already have state-of-the-art freezing facilities in place, why not also offer them to our customers? It was from this basic idea that the Hackners developed a unique service model for the food industry. Freezing, storage, packaging, labelling, defrosting to the customer’s desired temperature – CDS Hackner offers its customers all of these services. Controlled by a computer, individual customer requirements – from the frosting to the collection or delivery – are reliably fulfilled.
Freezing. The lowest temperatures and high circulating speeds guarantee short freezing times and therefore absolute freshness with minimal weight loss. We offer you plate freezing or conventional shock freezing: up to 500 tonnes per day.
Storage. CDS stores your frozen food products on computerised sliding shelves with a capacity of 33,000 pallets. Our computerised management control system offers maximum flexibility for your requirements.
 

SilberPfeil® product family:
The CDS SilberPfeil® Tube. Huge production increase and reduction in filling costs. Up to 18 metres per tube. 90% time saving compared to shirring by hand, 50% compared to shirring
machines.
The CDS SilberPfeil® Pipe. Simple handling, faster shirring, reduced production costs. As a casing, approx. 30 metres per pipe are tubed to make approx. 180 sausages without interruption.
The CDS SilberPfeil® NonStop. For the highest profitability: the world’s first hog casing that is welded together. Up to 18 metres of calibre-consistent casing per tube in one go. Increases filling capacity by approx. 20% compared to other tubed hog casings.
 

Here in Germany they are referred to disparagingly as “animal by-products”. But CDS Hackner has ventured further afield and discovered people who take a very different view.
Approx. 25 to 30% of an animal’s slaughtered weight is normally wasted and food goes unused because these parts of an animal are not popular in Germany. Instead, these so-called “animal by-products” are incorporated into pet food, gelatine or organic fertiliser. But if we take a look at different cultures, we soon see that these parts of animals are treated very differently elsewhere. This is something that CDS Hackner did many years ago. It discovered that there was a huge interest in Africa and Asia in particular. There, special meat cuts and offal are an inexpensive, nutritious part of the basic diet and regarded as an extremely popular delicacy. Particularly popular parts of the animal are the tongue, liver, kidneys, lungs, stomach, feet etc., all pre-packaged and prepared by CDS in accordance with local customs. The relationship with African and also Asian customers is meanwhile so close that the refined special meat cuts and offal from CDS Hackner are tailored to meet individual market and consumption needs.
A clear win-win situation. The pioneering achievement of CDS Hackner has only benefits all along the line: animals can be respectfully and sustainably processed, previously spurned parts of animals make a valid and important contribution to the world’s food supply and slaughterhouses have a new, reliable business partner, who has developed a new added value with its extensive expert knowledge.
Thanks to the innovative mentality and unique know-how of the Hackners and their employees, refined special meat cuts and offal are now put to effective use to make food products.
You can find an overview of all products at: www.cds-hackner.de
 

CDS Hackner supplies the pet food industry with frozen beef and pork products and the pharmaceutical industry with important raw materials for the production of life-saving medications. CDS Hackner also manufactures Graf Barf’s raw food for dogs.

Graf Barf
Feeding your pet a BARF diet is now easier than ever before with the unique BARF menus made of whole, easy to portion pieces of raw beef and lamb. They aren’t minced or puréed, but cut from the finest pieces.
There are 16 different cubes in the wholesome beef menu and nine in the wholesome lamb menu. With approx. 200 easy-to-portion raw food cubes per pack, our menus are balanced and delicious. Graf Barf offers a total of five complete menus (wholesome beef & lamb menus for adult dogs, sensitive beef & lamb menus for sensitive adult dogs, BARF newcomers and seniors, junior beef menu for dogs up to the age of one. All menu components are also available as individual cubes. In addition, our gently dried chew articles are guaranteed to give your dog hours of chewing fun and plenty of variety.

It’s simple to say what drives us: we want to offer our customers the best natural casings. And the best technology for their sausage production. Today we are a market leader in quality and innovation and can look back on almost 100 years of family tradition.

Our selection of natural casings: CDS hog casings, CDS beef casings, CDS sheep casings.
CDS hog casings, Europe. Quickly and easy to process, strong to fill – the flavour of your sausage comes into its own.
CDS hog casings, Extra. Light in colour and almost no veins, for an appealing sausage appearance. Ideal for Weißwurst (Bavarian-style veal sausage) and all types of bratwurst.
CDS hog casings, China. Calibre-consistent, with very good smoked properties, for a uniform appearance of your sausage at the sales counter.
CDS beef rounds, beef middles and beef caps. Free from fat and mucus, boil-proof and with ideal smoked properties.
CDS sheep casings Tip Top. Exact calibre, strictly selected, very fill-proof – for a uniform, appetising appearance of the sausage and a crispy bite.
CDS sheep casings 1A. Highly fill-proof, with low casing costs per kilogram thanks to a high filling weight. Also available in the extra-long “7 Metre Plus” option.
CDS sheep casings AB. Very good AB product, economically priced, good fill rate, e.g. for bratwurst spirals or Pfefferbeißer (thin peppery salami sausages).
CDS SilberPfeil® CDS natural casings support the quality of your sausage. And the innovative SilberPfeil® product family optimises production. It offers butchers and the meat-processing industry a customised system for producing economically and efficiently at the highest level.
Find out more about the SilberPfeil® product family under SilberPfeil®.

Quality assurance
The CDS quality management. The natural casings come from EU-certified slaughterhouses in Europe or from partner companies in the Middle East, South America and Asia. CDS Hackner offers consistent quality management and is certified in accordance with IFS Food Version 6 (Higher Level).
An intelligent colour management system for tubes, pipes and nets in the SilberPfeil® product family provides clear information about calibres and qualities - without any loose parts.
The CDS Fresh Pack. For the freshness and shelf life of our natural casing products: the CDS
Fresh Pack is the ideal packaging for butchers and for the meat-processing industry. Ideal to open thanks to the handy tear strip. Also available in a neutral design for resellers.