Meyn will showcase the Maestro Plus, the new solution for in-line automatic organ harvesting for a wide variety of line speeds and bird sizes, at IPPE from 28-20 January 2020
For the poultry processing industry, labour is still a critical issue, with poultry consumption rising at a time when workers are hard to find. Meyn provides solutions such as automated breast deboning machines, configure-to-order service contracts to eliminate unplanned down-time and a new version of Meyn Connect software to optimise efficiency in poultry processing.
Automated in-line organ harvesting
The high yield of Maestro’s evisceration technology combined with new organ harvesting modules have resulted in a solution with the highest yield in the market.
The new Maestro Plus eviscerator first transfers the viscera pack to an organ shackle, positioning it for veterinary inspection. The viscera pack then goes through the intestine and gall remover (IGR). Next, the liver harvester (LH) scrapes the liver from the gizzard to be cleaned in a drum washer and presented on a liver inspection belt. The remaining heart with lungs and gizzard is separated into two streams by the heart and gizzard separator (HGS); the first stream goes to the heart and lung separator and the second stream presents the gizzards for further processing, either manually or automatically.
The launch of Maestro Plus follows over two years of testing in Europe, China and the USA.
Meyn’s tailor-made service contracts aim to reduce downtime to a minimum, including training for technicians and operators, technical support, scheduled maintenance, a parts safety stock, repair and equipment data analysis and even a full plant audit.
During the IPPE show, Meyn will offer a schedule of frequent new product information sessions showcasing its advanced product line-up. Featured products include Meyn Connect’s poultry processing performance software, a CO2 stunning system with a choice of continuous or batch stun, as well as the new Rapid Plus breast deboner M5.0 with its semi-automatic loading of front halves.
