Salmon Processing Equipment, systems, and software

• From source to shelf • Standalone units • Complete systems • Software • Global service

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The company

Marel salmon divsion in Stovring, Denmark.

Who we are?

Innovation through partnership

Marel is the leading global provider of advanced processing systems and services to the Poultry, Meat and Fish industries.

With offices and subsidiaries in over 30 countries on six continents and a global network of over 100 agents and distributors, our expertise in local markets and requirements helps us deliver the best fish processing innovation for your needs.

With roots in the fish industry all the way back to the company’s origins developing onboard scales, Marel combines its extensive knowledge of fish processing with heavy investment in product development to create innovative equipment, systems, and software for processing whitefish and salmon, both farmed and wild, onboard and ashore. With manufacturing facilities in 16 locations worldwide, we serve the fish processing industry from three strategic centers with distinct industry knowledge:

Marel thrives on imagination, ingenuity, and its strong partnerships within the industry. Our cutting edge equipment and software components help you operate at peak productivity in all markets, irrespective of the size of your operation, and our products positively and directly enhance the overall quality and value of seafood.

Onboard and wild salmon – based in Seattle, USA Whitefish – based in Gardabaer, Iceland Salmon – based in Stovring, Denmark All three centers have a dedicated R&D team to ensure that we are providing you with the latest technology in processing equipment for all stages of the fish processing value chain, ranging from single scales to integrated production lines and turnkey systems, onboard and ashore.

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Product range Marel provides you with the latest technology in advanced equipment and integrated systems for use in every stage of the processing value chain for both wild and farmed salmon.

PRIMARY PROCESSING

SECONDARY PROCESSING

Gutting & Deheading

Filleting

Grading - Whole Fish

Trimming

Desliming

Pinbone Removal

Weighing

Skinning

Fillet Washing

Grading - Fillets

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VALUE-ADDED PROCESSING

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Portion Cutting

Checkweighing

Portioning

Labeling

Spicing

Marinating

Slicing

Packing Lines

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Primary processing Gutting & deheading For wild salmon, Marel gutting equipment provides your operation with a fast, efficient way to prepare your salmon for freezing or filleting. Our gutting equipment is constructed with FDA-approved materials and is fully adjustable to your process line requirements. We provide both manual and automatic deheading systems. Manual de-heading is often included in the desliming unit with 1 or 2 work stations. With an automatic system, the unit is fed by one operator and the fish is delivered automatically into the filleting machine. This ensures a uniform cut, reduces your operational costs, and optimizes the overall yield.

Grading - whole fish Our Whole Salmon Grading and Distribution System’s extremely high level of automation ensures a seamless flow of fish from slaughtering to dispatch. The comprehensive system consists of two distinct processing areas: a gutting area, and a packing and distribution area. The complete system is powered by Innova Software Solutions, giving you managerial overview and control of every stage of the production process.

Desliming To ensure a high level of hygiene, Marel has various units for removing slime, blood, and bacteria from the salmon. Using high water pressure, the units thoroughly rinse the product and thereby reduce the bacteria count significantly. The deslimer unit can be used before gutting, or before or after the deheading process. Water consumption is kept to a minimum by recirculating the water through a filter in the deslimer rinsing system.

Weighing Marel bench, floor, and hopper scales can be combined with our comprehensive range of weighing indicators, computers, printers, labelers, software, and accessories to suit your individual processing needs. Our scales can be used as standalone installations or as a part of your complete production management system. Our hopper scales are designed for weighing a continuous product flow into batches for packing or yield monitoring.

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Secondary processing Filleting Our salmon filleting machines are among the best and most efficient on the market. Filleting is one of the secondary processes where there is great potential to increase yield, and Marel’s latest salmon filleting machine, the MS 2730 Filleting Machine, is equipped with new tools that can improve the yield results significantly.

Trimming Marel is the leading global provider of trimming systems for salmon. Trimming methods vary from one factory to another, depending on factors such as throughput, labor costs, and traceability requirements. Whatever the set-up and scale of your production, we can provide the ideal system – ranging from highly advanced automatic systems to basic manual trimming. Most of our manual lines are designed as active lines, whereby trimming is conducted on the conveyor belt while it is running, with throughput depending on fish size and trim level. All Marel trimming lines fully comply with the most stringent industry requirements. They are ergonomically designed and can be delivered with height adjustable working platforms.

Back and belly trim tool Automatic trimming is available with back and belly trim tools integrated in Marel's advanced filleting machine MS 2730, significantly reducing the cost of manual trimming. The height and depth of each fish is measured at the infeed, and the trim cuts are made based on this measurement by two sets of circular knives. The fillets are delivered with the back and belly trimmed according to your preselected settings.

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Secondary processing Pinbone removal Marel was one of the pioneers of pinbone removers. Designed to match the size, shape, and structure of each fillet, our pinbone removers treat fillets very gently, resulting in an end product of particularly high quality. We offer a wide selection of both standard and vacuum pinbone machines for fresh salmon fillets. The vacuum edition removes bones and water from the fillet surface very efficiently, ensuring an exceptionally high quality level on the fillets.

Skinning Our skinning machines skin salmon and trout fillets in a variety of ways, ranging from silver skinning to deep skinning, without any loss in quality or capacity. The skinners optimize the flow of salmon processing lines and stands out for the way it skins fillets head first, leaving no skin on the tail and achieving a very high yield from each fillet.

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Fillet washing Prior to packing, freezing, or further handling, a Marel fillet washing unit can rinse off any slime, blood, and any remains from the filleting, trimming, and pinboning processes, to reduce the total count of bacteria. The fillet washer has adjustable air blowers to remove surplus water from the surface of fillets after rinsing. The unit is highly efficient, and can fit into any processing line.

Grading - fillets Our graders are highly accurate, ensuring you can optimize processing and packing performance by directing salmon fillets based on size and quality. From the robust and sophisticated CheckBin Grader that reduces overpack, to the completely modular SmartLine Grader for supreme hygiene and serviceability, all our graders come with an advanced Innova reporting function that offers you a superior overview of your production process.

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Value-added processing Portion cutting Marel has been a leading innovator of portion cutters for more than 20 years. With more than 2,000 machines installed worldwide, our equipment helps you keep pace with your customers’ constantly increasing demands. We use the latest hardware and software technology to guarantee extreme accuracy and maximize the use of raw materials, ensuring you the best return on investment. You can achieve almost 100% product utilization and therefore increase profits considerably, thanks to superior accuracy and minimal giveaway. Automation also results in extensive savings on manual labor costs. Our portion cutters have become industry benchmarks, leading the way in traceability and food safety, and helping processors maximize product yield, quality, and throughput. The Marel StripCutter is the perfect tool for cutting salmon into strips or cubes.

Portioning The RevoPortioner produces perfectly portioned products at low pressure out of trimmings and block material while retaining the texture and structure of the raw material. This can be done without the need for additives to make it stick together, thus avoiding additional costs and keeping the fresh flavor of the fish intact. The RevoPortioner provides a unique opportunity for salmon processors to add value to fresh salmon products, turning trimmings into profitable opportunities. Consistent top-quality products such as fish cakes and fish burgers are made in an energy efficient process with an unbeaten payback time. End products will always have the same shape, weight, and size, and be of uniform quality, according to your exact specifications.

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Spicing Our salt and spice dispensers enable efficient dry salting and spicing of salmon fillets before fillets are placed on smoking grids. You can use the machines for salt, sugar/salt mixtures, and various spices. The salt/spice is stored in a heated tank to keep it dry in the humid environment of a fish processing plant. The dispensers fit into your existing processing lines, or can be delivered as a part of a complete fillet line.

Marinating We offer a system for in-line wet marinating of portioned and/ or fragile salmon products like fresh or frozen fillets or portions. Marinade is sprayed uniformly on one or both sides of the product and, if desired, coarse pieces are evenly distributed. The system minimizes your giveaway and waste, saves on labor costs, and is compatible with both a single and multilane process §set-up.

Slicing Marel is the leading supplier of slicing equipment for fresh salmon and trout, ranging from single standard units to large scale production systems including packing lines. Our standard slicers are ideal for processing cold smoked salmon, marinated salmon, and similar species such as trout and halibut. For more complex operations, the Multi Angle Slicers are ideal both for standard slicing and for making products such as sushi slices, bacon cut, and raw salmon. Our slicers range from a single-lane model for small operations to the fastest slicer on the market today, for maximum throughput. Some of our slicers are equipped with a vision scanning system, enabling them to make fixed weight slices or portions with very high accuracy. Our retail pack slicers deliver slices in batches, ready for packaging, and we also provide special models for horizontal slicing.

Packing lines We can provide a complete system with one or more slicing units, packing stations, and checkweighing set-ups, customized to meet your exact requirements.

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Filleting line systems Marel’s expertise and experience in designing and manufacturing advanced filleting systems is unmatched in the industry. Virtually a one-stop shop for salmon processors, we offer everything from single standalone units to custom-designed systems, including a wide range of key products for primary, secondary, and value-adding processing.

Complete filleting line from deheading to smoke trolley loading

Filleting line with automatic trimming and standard pinbone removal

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Slicing line systems Marel has extensive experience in designing slicing line systems adapted to fit your individual needs and facilities. We offer integrated systems with slicing units, along with packing stations and checkweighing equipment. Our consultants are ready to assist with advice and guidance to find the best solution for your factory.

Slicing line with 3 Retail Pack Slicers with packing line for thermoforming

Slicing line with 1 single lane slicer and a packing line for 4 operators

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End of line Checkweighing We provide a complete range of accurate and reliable checkweighing machines and systems. Whether you need a checkweigher for monitoring and adjusting the accuracy of your equipment, or for ensuring compliance with EU regulations, you can find a checkweigher to meet your requirements in our extensive range. All Marel checkweighers have been approved for legal weighing within EU and EEA legislation.

Packing and labeling Our end-of-line systems can be tailored to your requirements. We make price and/or promotional labeling and pack collating easy, so your products are ready for packing into boxes or crates with total labels to match. Marel weigh price labelers are accurate, reliable, inexpensive, and easy to operate. They deliver consistently high weighing accuracy and feature a print head capable of printing up to two million labels.

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INNOVA software solutions Innova combines Marel’s production management software and processing know-how to fulfill your individual needs, keeping in step with the salmon industry’s ever-changing processing trends. Innova empowers you to: • Control your production • Experience real-time monitoring • Improve decision-making based on valuable Innova insights The ultimate objective of Innova is to empower you to optimize overall production performance and reach your goals. This enables you to maximize yield and throughput; conform to quality standards and ensure food safety; achieve full traceability; and raise efficiency.

Innova’s process know-how empowers you to deal with daily challenges and optimize results, from reception to dispatch. Innova production management software can communicate with your other systems, such as an existing ERP system, to give you a powerful interconnected management system. Innova provides a solid foundation for reliable data collection, and ensures full traceability throughout the system. It also allows you to monitor your key performance indicators (KPIs) such as yield, throughput, quality, capacity, and labor efficiency, in real production time. These valuable insights enable you to identify opportunities for improvements, while ensuring that production conforms to quality and food safety standards.

The Innova Software Solutions portfolio ranges from simple device control solutions to total processing solutions. Based on modular designs, the solutions are scalable, thereby providing maximum flexibility for salmon processors, ranging from small operations to large, plant-wide systems.

Service & support Marel at your service We provide professional service solutions to the salmon processing industry worldwide. The Marel Service Organization spans 30 countries and performs an average of 1,000 customer visits daily. Our service departments are always available to provide any troubleshooting and assistance you may need. This includes sending a service engineer to deal with any technical issues related to your Marel equipment. A Marel service level agreement gives you easy access to regular service support. Our service engineers will check your equipment thoroughly and make sure it is properly set up for optimum performance, changing any parts if necessary.

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It’s all about salmon processing In February each year, Marel invites salmon processors from around the world to attend the annual Salmon ShowHow; the world's largest salmon processing event.. The event is staged at Progress Point, our demonstration and training facility in Copeanhagen. The Marel Salmon ShowHow showcases our latest salmon processing equipment, highlighting both fully integrated systems and a wide range of standard systems and standalone machines.

The event also includes guest speakers who address some of the issues most relevant to salmon processors today. The Salmon ShowHow is a great place to meet colleagues and customers from the salmon industry, and includes entertainment and dinner.

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Throughout the day, live demonstrations staged in the 900 m2 demonstration halls at Progress Point provide you with a unique, first-hand experience of our systems and equipment in action, while a team of our professionals is on hand to answer questions.

Marel is the leading global provider of advanced equipment and systems for the fish, meat, and poultry industries.

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