Entry Level Ultrasonic Food
Cutting & Portioning
Telsonic’s ultrasonic technology has The company specialises in creating a
established itself the process of choice for wide range of fresh store-ready products
food cutting and portioning applications, within their Redditch manufacturing
across many different product types. facility.
Much of the equipment delivered by The product under consideration for this
Telsonic is installed within high volume, application was frozen Seafood Mousse
and often highly automated, production which is produced with various fillings
cells designed and built by the UK’s food and manufactured in a slab form ready for
sector system specialists and integrators. portioning.
There are, however, instances where This seasonal product however proved
production volumes are such that high difficult to cut and portion manually
levels of automation are not required, but when using traditional mechanical
where the introduction of a simpler semi- methods due to its delicacy and variable
automated ultrasonic system would still consistency. Trials using Telsonic’s
deliver tangible benefits. ultrasonic technology were undertaken
Seeking to improve quality and
consistency on their frozen Seafood
Mousse products, Redditch based Blue
to determine if the process could deliver
the accurate and neat portion control
required.
Earth Foods turned to Telsonic UK to Following the successful outcome of the
configure an entry-level ultrasonic cutting cutting and portioning trials, Telsonic UK
system. were commissioned to produce a semi-
Blue Earth Foods Limited is a major
automatic stand-alone machine.
supplier of chilled seafood products to The system has been built upon
leading retailers throughout the United a stainless steel framework and
Kingdom and Europe. incorporates lockable castors to allow
portability.
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At the heart of the machine is a Telsonic
AC750 actuator 20kHz/1200W cutting
system, encased within a stainless steel
cover. Other ultrasonic components
include a SE2012 IP67 Converter and
a MAGW02012E generator which is
mounted within a stainless steel control
panel.
A single 100mm wide 20kHz titanium
slotted cutting blade sonotrode is used to
portion the product.