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The year of 2018 is an anniversary year for KRONEN, the company in Kehl at the Rhine celebrates its 40th company anniversary, but it is also a year of changes in the Management Board: Rudolf Hans Zillgith, Senior Manager of the family company, announced the realignment at the Anniversary Gala on 27 September. In addition to Rudolf Hans Zillgith and Stephan Zillgith, Eric Lefebvre and Johannes Guenther, both having been executives at KRONEN for many years, will become new members of the Management Board as well as company Associates..

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At the in-house exhibition KRONEN presented numerous news on 3200 sqm at its own venue in Kehl at the Rhine, Germany, on 28 September. One major topic was KRONEN’s “Internet of Things” concept. On the eve of the show customers and partners were invited to join the gala evening. With this event KRONEN celebrated its 40th company anniversary including the “KRONEN Award” ceremony. More than 240 participants from 45 countries accepted the invitation and travelled to the Black Forest region.

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Shelf life and food safety is a major requirement in the salads, vegetables and fruit processing Fresh-cut industry. Now, KRONEN has further developed its UVC disinfection lock adapting it to the needs of the users. By means of Ultraviolet-C radiation technology the surface of vegetable and fruit products as well as of packaging materials and tools passed through the lock is disinfected efficiently and without using heat or additives.

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The K-series is the most widely used model beyond the KRONEN vegetable and salad spin-dryers and is in action hundredfold around the world. Now, it has been redesigned: The result, KS-100 PLUS, has a new look, and especially the technological aspects were on focus when further developing the machine.

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KRONEN GmbH, together with partners, is currently developing a new solution for reducing germs in the process water used during the washing cycle of Fresh-cut salads. The goal is to increase the microbial safety of packaged ready-to-eat products without using chemical additives. The project named SiMoHyP is one of three research projects KRONEN is conducting at the moment.

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KRONEN was founded in 1978 and thus celebrates its 40th company anniversary in 2018. Since ten years the machine building company has been organizing an in-house trade show with supporting program every two years, inviting the sector to its headquarter and production site in Kehl at the Rhine, Germany. About 250 participants from around the world are expected to visit this year’s event on 27 and 28 September 2018.

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User report: Grönsakshallen

Gronsakshallen is one of Sweden’s biggest fruit and vegetable wholesaler and fresh-cut producer. The company invests in a modern, automatized production and offers a web shop for its customers, in order that they can order online flexibly.

Now KRONEN installed a new processing line at the production site in Hagersten, with which large amounts of salad and vegetable can be processed in a continuous process. The results: higher productivity, better resource management and maximum product quality.

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Cube, strip and slice cutting machine KUJ V with serial number 1000 goes to Russia, to the renowned supermarket chain Azbuka Vkusa.
The premium chain which is widely spread in Moscow and St. Petersburg processes Fresh-cut products and delicacies at its own plant. With this KRONEN delivers one more of the KUJ series to Russia: There is no other country in which this machine is as requested.

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KRONEN and the Spanish company CITROSOL are collaborating with the Spanish technological centre CNTA in the prototyping of a new industrial washing process.
With the project aqUAFRESH the partners want to improve the food safety of processed fresh fruit and vegetables and to reduce water consumption during processing.

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With this year's Anuga FoodTec in Cologne from 20 to 23 March the second important international trade show took place, after Fruit Logistica in February..

At Anuga FoodTec KRONEN met the international industry and showed its competences once more. Live machinery presentations, a lecture on a highly innovative topic and not to forget: our "Live Cooking". All this made the participation a real success!.

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KRONEN GmbH displays its new machinery and solutions live and in function at Anuga FoodTec 2018 in Cologne, Germany, from 20 to 23 March.

Furthermore, the company informs about the development of a new process to increase the microbiological safety of packaged fresh-cut products in a lecture at the Forum in the Congress Center East.

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Participation of KRONEN GmbH in this year’s Fruit Logistica 2018 in Berlin from 7 to 9 February was again a real success.
KRONEN displayed new machinery and solutions, live and in function and thus the company was attracting many producers of Fresh-cut and convenience food from Germany and around the world.

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The demand for avocados increases and thus the fresh processing of large quantities of the fruit become more and more important as well.
KRONEN GmbH meets the requirements of the Convenience and Freshcut market and introduces the worldwide first avocado processing line, which allows the peeling and coring of big amounts within very short times and thereby creates a visually attractive product.

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KRONEN GmbH presents a comprehensive portfolio of new machines and solutions – live and in function – at Fruit Logistica 2018 in Berlin from 7 to 9 February.

Furthermore, KRONEN celebrates its 40th company anniversary in 2018. This, too, will be displayed at the stand A-04 in hall 3.1.

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The novelty could be seen in many variations at the PMA Fresh Summit in New Orleans, USA in October. KRONEN cube, strip and slice cutting machine KUJ V allows the making of rice from different kinds of vegetables.

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Up to 600 kilograms of potatoes per hour are produced by the new KRONEN potato processing line, which recently has been put into operation at the LENTA supermarket chain in St. Petersburg.

LENTA is one of the largest retail chains in Russia and the country's second largest hypermarket chain. LENTA operates 195 hypermarkets in 78 cities across Russia and 53 supermarkets in the Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk and the Central region.

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A lot of experience and sophisticated technology for an optimal washing result, as well as the individual modification options of the machines – with these facts Kronen has once again convinced a Freshcut company, which is a leader in the English market as a manufacturer and supplier of convenience products.

With the GEWA 3800V PLUS washing machine delivered to England in April 2017, salads and vegetables are thoroughly and gently washed in a continuous flume washing process without mechanical submergence.

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From February 8 to 10, 2017, the FRUIT LOGISTICA 2017 was once again the meeting place for the international fruit trade for three days. Kronen was also represented at the trade fair as an expert for the salad, vegetable and fruit processing industries.

Many visitors were enthusiastic about the exhibited machine highlights. Especially the innovative novelties - and the associated possibilities - were always the starting point for many informative talks and discussions. Especially the live demos of the Kronen novelties - the SPIRELLO 150 vegetable slicer and the high-performance washing machine GEWA XL - proved to be a crowd puller.

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According to individual customer requirements, Kronen engineers have developed a GEWA washing machine with integrated water filter. The challenge was to develop a filtration system that would clean itself and not interfere or interrupt the wash water process.

Furthermore, the customer wishes of kosher food production were taken into account in machine development.

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