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1. Importance and diversity of cutting in the food industry
Food cutting is a very frequent unitary operation on agri-food production and processing lines, particularly when harvesting agricultural produce, trimming before processing, or portioning products before packaging. There are even branches of industry where product manufacture is almost a succession of cutting operations, such as slaughterhouse cutting plants, 4th range salad factories (i.e. bagged salads) or cheese pre-packaging.
These operations must meet three imperatives:
A wide variety of operations and shapes: the food industry's cutting requirements are extremely varied, both in terms of the operations to be carried out (peeling, trimming, boning, portioning, etc.) and in terms of the shape and size of the objects to be obtained: slice, strip, sliced, grated, cube, round, quarter, portion, section, steak, cutlet,...
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- (1) - MERLE (C.) - Les nouvelles technologies de la découpe automatique des aliments, jets d'eau, ultrasons, - ENSIA Dept Génie Industriel Alimentaire, Actes du Colloque organisé par CINTECH AA inc – Montréal Québec – 28 mars 1996.
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Estimated cost of a cutting system by technology
The figures given below are for information only.
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Conventional machines
Given the wide range of equipment available, it is difficult to give any kind of estimate for this type of technique.
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Machines operating on the ultrasonic principle
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