MODERN EQUIPMENT FOR MEAT INDUSTRY

Abstract

Now there is a wide scale of both new and capitally repaired equipment for meat industry. Modern hi-tech equipment and the possibility of complex automation of the production processes play an important role in the maintenance of the production quality. In the article the main types of the equipment for meat processing used on meat-packing plants and meat manufacturing plants, their classification and technical characteristics are presented. Meat industry is one of the basic branches of food manufacture representing the large complex including a considerable quantity of industrial sites with wide spectrum of automation. Much attention is paid to the equipment of slaughter shop, shop of primary processing of raw materials and line of finished production. Versions of units for cattle stunning and draining of blood, sawing up of carcasses, processing of by-products, crushing of raw materials, packing of finished products and other industrial equipment applied at all stages of technological process of meat manufacture are given. Product variants are presented for the manufacture of which this or that equipment can be used. The described equipment allows to increase productivity of production, to reduce time of manufacture of an end-product and to improve labour organization.