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FEBRUARY TIP: Crinkle cut sticks of carrots, beetroot, radish, potato etc. with GS 10-2
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KRONEN Tip: Crinkle cut sticks of carrots, beetroot, radish, potato etc. with GS 10-2
Target: Cut long crinkle sticks of root and tuber vegetable
Machine: Belt cutting machine GS 10-2 with the 4 mm wave cutting disc knife
Result: optimum neat cut with long sticks
Capacity: About 200-300 kg vegetable can be cut per hour. The capacity depends on the cutting thickness: Cutting sticks with a larger diameter results in higher capacities.
With larger capacities the result will be a mixture of longer and shorter sticks, because the product orientation will change.
Process:
- Equip the machine with the 4 mm wave cutting knife:
- Belt speed: 20 %
- Knife speedt: 55 %
- Down holder: 75 %
- Product temperature: 4-6 °C
- The vegetable is cut in slices first. Important: Longish vegetable such as carrots or radish have to be pre-cut and placed crosswise on the infeed conveyor.
- Those crinkle slices are put back on the conveyor in an oriented way if possible to do a second cut which results in the crinkle sticks.
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JANUARY TIP: Cutting 5,2 mm sweet pepper rings with HGW and PGW
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Cutting 5,2 mm sweet pepper rings with HGW and PGW
Target: Cut sweet peppers of up to 90 mm diameter in 5,2 mm rings
Machine: Manual and pneumatic grid cutter HGW and PGW with the new 5,2 mm slicer with serrated blades
Result: excellent, perfect cut sweet pepper rings without breakage
Capacity: Two sweet peppers can be processed at once within 10 seconds. These are 720 sweet peppers per hour and 115 kg per hour (sweet peppers of 160 g in average).
Process:
- Cut out the stalk and its base, which are too hard for the blades.
- Do not clean the product further, as this would reduce significantly the resistence of the product to squeezing and would make the rings brake.
- Product's temperature should be ambiant.
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