SAUSAGE INDUSTRY WE KNOW A THING OR TWO ABOUT

As a producer of linked products, you Do you want to achieve long-term customer you an attachment which is very easy to are faced with new requirements and loyalty and extend your retail listing integrate: quick and easy to connect, it big challenges. In a highly competitive periods by offering convincing products? will offer the dependability you need to environment, you have to set yourself deliver your promises immediately and apart with your product range and ideas: To achieve all that, you need to use from the very outset. All of this is about it’s all about the sausages you produce, production equipment that offers a satisfying your demanding customers. and what makes them different from other lot of flexibility and almost limitless products on the market. upgradeability. We look forward to being able to solve your challenges with you, since we are It used to be enough to adapt existing VEMAG lines can produce an sausage specialists through and through. products for more diversity, and customers almost endless range of products. Easy And your products are what we live for. would respond enthusiastically, whereas to adjust and retool, they make your today, new, different product concepts are production lines true all-rounders. And needed. Trending products and snacks, if you ever need anything which the as well as alternative eating habits, equipment you have installed does not influence expanding target groups among cover, VEMAG Maschinenbau GmbH’s consumers. modular machine range is sure to offer CONTENTS

4 Endlessly Diverse Products 6 Efficiency And Precision 8 Filling 10 Grinding And Separating 12 Applying And Changing Casings 13 Portioning And Linking Cutting And Depositing Sausages CONTENTS 14 Grouping And Loading 16 Adjustable Hanging Of Sausage Loops 18 The VEMAG Modular Principle For Maximum Flexibility 20 Our Machines And Everything That Goes With Them 22 Strong Together For Your Success Nothing Can Beat It: 26 The VEMAG Double Screw

Machine Analysis And Production Planning With 28 Smart Link 4.0 30 VEMAG: Your Reliable And Competent Partner

SAUSAGE INDUSTRY 3 ENDLESSLY DIVERSE ­PRODUCTS

The global sausage industry produces a vast variety of sausages that differ in their production, composition, appearance and taste. New creations are always emerging as well.

VEMAG helps give you freedom in production. Our flexible, modular range of machines allows you to extend your product portfolio whenever you want to: from Viennas, to modern snacks, all the way to sausages in alginate casings. The possibilities of production offer you a fantastic choice.

Classic Sausage Products:

• Frankfurters • Viennas • • Cocktail Sausages • Veal Sausage • Sausages • Salami • Fresh Sausage, • Fresh Brats A WIDE RANGE OF END PRODUCTS

International Specialities

• Italian quality Products such as Salametti • French fresh Sausage such as Chipolata and Merguèz • Polish Mini Kabanossi • Russian Sosiski and Sardelki • Chinese Rice Sausage and High-Temperature Sausage • Spanish Snacks and • English • American and Italian Brats and much more

SAUSAGE INDUSTRY 5 EFFICIENCY AND PRECISION Opening up of opportunities in processing.

Loading Efficiently depositing sausages in programmable quantities and groups, such as in trays and thermoformed pouches

Hanging Smoke sticks of different lengths can be efficiently loaded by quickly adapting sausage loops and hook spacings

Cutting Linked products can be safely cut and separated thanks to VEMAG’s optimised cutting technology CORE PROCESSES

Filling Gentle handling of raw materials and a uniform feeding guarantee maximum product quality and a perfect downstream processing

Grinding and Separating The market’s most compact filler-grinder technology featuring direct, straight-line product flows for less smearing, and perfect long-term pressure control

Applying and Changing Casings Semi- and fully automatic casing changing for optimised casing yield in the production process

Portioning and Linking Results are highly reproducible, which means a uniform product profile thanks to VEMAG’s leading linking technology (e.g. divider belts)

SAUSAGE INDUSTRY 7 FILLING FILLING Infeed – inlet – feeding system – outlet: Each stage of filling individually adjustable to create a unique product.

The filling process plays an important part powerful vacuum performance and gentle in the industrial production of sausage feeding of the filling material all ensure products. Different parameters such as that the downstream attachments and The benefits: geometry, component size and function, automated line systems are perfectly from the inlet to the outlet, all influence supplied with top-quality product. • Excellent product quality fundamental product characteristics. You • Gentle processing decide which properties your product • Reduces giveaway and therefore should have, and we adapt our machine Our powerful vacuum fillers convey your saves money fully to your requirements. This helps you products carefully and along the shortest • Adapt and improve your achieve perfect weight accuracy in your possible feeding distance, with minimised products perfectly products, a drastic reduction of giveaway dwell time: This prevents smearing, and big savings on resources and costs. minimises leftovers and guarantees perfect Continuous product infeed, constant, hygiene.

VEMAG filling technology for products the way you imagine them

SAUSAGE INDUSTRY 9 GRINDING AND SEPARATING GRINDING

Gentle grinding for the best ­possible The benefits: product presentation. • Straight product feeding without VEMAG machines help you achieve a VEMAG filling-grinding technology features dead space, in which residue consistent particle size, excellent colouring extremely short, direct product feeding could accumulate. This guaran- and a clear texture for a perfect product without corners or turbulence, which tees outstanding hygiene, less presentation. The quality of your raw guarantees hygienic products of the pressure and better products material is always our top priority. During highest quality. It also means optimum • Clear particle size and an attrac- the grinding process, the creation of heat temperature consistency. VEMAG filling- tively coloured end product is avoided and the grinder’s diameter is grinding technology can easily handle • High degree of standardisation adapted to the application, preventing a very cold, stiff mixtures when producing build-up of pressure which would cause particularly challenging products. changes to the product texture.

SEPARATING Safely remove unwanted particles to achieve top quality. The benefits:

When producing your products, unwanted VEMAG separating technology features • Upgrades the raw material components such as bone particles, gris- separate conveying equipment to facilitate • Efficient processing: simplified tle and sinews are separated out, so that perfect, reduced separating weights, which product preparation, shorter you end up with a raw material in which means less giveaway and a longer service process steps you can be confident and which can be life in your production facilities. • Top quality products and processed in line. This ensures that your dependable product safety product is safe and that it exhibits excel- • Efficient processing enabled in lent qualities. continuous line solutions

More efficiency: Raw materials are ­processed over a short distance

SAUSAGE INDUSTRY 11 APPLYING AND CHANGING CASINGS

Do you produce sausages and want to re- positioned on the linking horn and stabi- duce casing change times? Do you want to lises them during loading. This prevents increase your output and are looking for an mis-loading and kinks in the casings. An The benefits: economical solution that pays off? Quick, integrated servo casing feed assists the easy casing changing reduces downtime, linking function and ensures that the ca- • Casings loaded very which helps increase productivity. sing is gently and consistently advanced, quickly and safely for accurately linked sausages. • Casing change times Applying and changing casings is espe- dramatically reduced cially dependable and safe using VEMAG • Effective output raised: machines. The unique VEMAG gripper prin- noticeably increased net ciple ensures that the casings are perfectly tonnage per hour

The VEMAG gripper principle helps stabilise while the casing is loaded PORTIONING AND LINKING

Identical length, identical weight, identical The complete filling and linking process calibre: our portioning and linking ma- proceeds exceptionally quietly and evenly chines achieve very reproducible results with extremely gentle handling of the cas- The benefits: for a consistent product profile and highly ing. Even the most fragile casings can be accurate weights – regardless of what kind linked without a hitch. • Fully automated linking of casing you are using. eliminates manual interventions Intelligent sensors detect casing ends and • Higher yield due to accurate breakages, and also enable perfect syn- lengths and gentle processing chronisation between the linking unit and • Rework is reduced by a linking the filling process. This facilitates clean technique that protects the work at a very high speed. casings • Giveaway is reduced by very accurate weights and intelligent special features such as portion compensation

Sensor-controlled divider belts treat casings extremely gently

SAUSAGE INDUSTRY 13 CUTTING, PLACING AND HANGING SAUSAGES CUTTING AND DEPOSITING SAUSAGES The pathway to full automation for your traditional products.

VEMAG cutting machines cut with com- trol, making them very easy to feed into plete dependability thanks to their sophis- downstream automation solutions in a ticated technology. Our belt systems that perfectly synchronized manner. The benefits: stretch the twist point are perfectly syn- VEMAG machines offer maximum availa- chronised, and this is combined with an bility thanks to their robust, dependable • Portions separated under absolutely dependable, slicing cut which technology. controlled conditions always separates the twist point central- • Precise discharging of broken ly thanks to sensor technology, achieving portions outstanding results. Separated portions • Gentle, reliable alignment are consequently under full position con- • Accurate depositing onto conveyor belt • Optimum utilisation of down- stream process capacities Versatile automation for depositing, ­grouping and inserting

Cut sausages can easily be separated, belts for thermal treatment. This optional aligned and deposited on downstream solution is customised to your needs.

GROUPING AND The benefits:

• Portions separated under LOADING controlled conditions • Precise discharging of broken Cut fresh sausage is fed into a fully auto- lines. And then there is a quantum leap in portions mated packing process by the LL335 link hygiene. The days of manual intervention • Gentle, reliable alignment of loader. This gives you the next dimension are numbered. sausages, including ones with in highly productive, efficient production natural casings • Groups of your choice can be formed without backing up • Accurate and gentle depositing and loading into trays and thermoformed pouches • Optimum utilisation of down- stream process capacities • Fully automated process without any manual handling all the way to packaging means perfect hygiene

SAUSAGE INDUSTRY 15 ADJUSTABLE HANGING OF SAUSAGE LOOPS ADJUSTABLE HANGING OF SAUSAGE LOOPS

Viennas and Bockwurst today, cocktails and party portions tomorrow. Flexible demand means changing portion sizes, The benefits: changing casing calibres and adjusting casing types. • Variable, adjustable unloading height, making for stress-free With VEMAG hanging technology as part of work when preparing and your linking line, the demands of flexibility removing products – optimised will begin to feel like fun, since they are for your application part of our modular machine concept and • Any kind of hanging is possible – our philosophy. VEMAG hanging lines – you choose the number of now no one can make you lose your cool. portions per group, and adjust loop spacings quickly, easily and variably to different smoke-stick lengths • Intelligent hook geometry ensures that sausage loops are reliably caught • Adjustable special functions to ensure casings are used optimally and productivity is increased: compensating first and last portion, last hook moves quickly, and much more • Loop spacings can be flexibly and easily adjusted for a wide calibration range • All casing lengths (sausage slugs up to 580 mm long with LPG218)

SAUSAGE INDUSTRY 17 THE VEMAG MODULAR PRINCIPLE FOR MAXIMUM FLEXIBILITY

Modularity is what our machines are all about. And that means there are no limits to your product range. THE VEMAG MODULAR PRINCIPLE FOR MAXIMUM FLEXIBILITY

VEMAG’s big portfolio of machines, attach- filler, you can design your production the system components whose technology ments and accessories is like a box of buil- way you want using a combination of dif- and operation are tailored exactly to our ding blocks from which you can select the ferent attachments and suitable accesso- machines. That means you always have modules you want to assemble the solu- ries. So you do not have to buy a new the perfect solution from a single source. tion for you. machine for new products: all you need is the right accessories or an attachment. For you as a user, it means that once you have purchased the core system, a VEMAG VEMAG attachments and accessories are

SAUSAGE INDUSTRY 19 OUR MACHINES AND EVERYTHING THAT GOES WITH THEM

Our sausage filling lines provide you with powerful, flexible systems that can be combined with our attachments and accessories to enable a wide range of products, efficiently supporting even the most complex production processes.

HP20E - FSL210 - AH212

HP20E - FSL211 - AH212

HP20E - LPG209 - AH212 - smoke stick scale OUR MACHINES AND EVERYTHING THAT GOES WITH THEM

HP10E - LGP208 - AH212

HP20E - LPG208 - TM203

HP10L - LPG218 - AH219

HP20E - LPG208 - LL335 - PC706

SAUSAGE INDUSTRY 21 STRONG TOGETHER FOR YOUR SUCCESS YOUR PRODUCT LESS RAW MATERIALS ...is Number One. …for more sales

At VEMAG, our top priority every day is to be there for our Only once your product is as perfect as you want it can we think customers in every way. We consider your product the most about improving yields. We understand that good food has to be valuable asset, and we want to protect it, refine it, improve it and competitive, which is why our own teams of experts are always make it even more professional. using and developing their knowledge to allow you to get more of your high-grade raw materials into sellable products. That That will give you an edge and your customers as well. means more profit, and also less waste. We develop, perfect and install every vacuum filler, every attachment and every complete line so that you can achieve your • Optimised weight accuracy and less giveaway allow you to objectives with a wide range of functions: deliver only what you are going to be paid for. • Higher yield reduces your costs. For example, have you ever • Excellent products, designed and produced exactly the way calculated what 1% less casing or raw material and ingredients you want them could do for your profits, thanks to VEMAG’s intelligent filling • VEMAG machine technology is highly flexible, enabling amended technology? and newly developed products to be made easily on existing • Perfect product lengths and geometries reduce packaging VEMAG lines to produce the best possible outcome problems and improve your packaging costs. They also • Optimised standards that ensure guaranteed reproducibility eliminate high waste costs. and product safety for your end-customers Together we can work out how your process combined with our Our product managers and food technologists are there to assist technology can generate added value for you, precisely by using you and are in constant dialogue with our development depart- less raw material. ment in order to make your products even better using improved machine technology.

SAUSAGE INDUSTRY 23 STRONG TOGETHER FOR YOUR SUCCESS

OUTSTANDING AVAILABILITY LESS RISK …another aspect of VEMAG Service …more customers

What happens if your product is not ready to sell on time? No VEMAG fillers and VEMAG lines offer endless features, making them low- product often means no sales, which not only reduces turnover, risk production systems that give you more time to concentrate on what it can annoy your customers a lot and even drive them into the is important. Every time we develop anything, we think about your safety arms of your competition. VEMAG Service includes lots of ways and the hygiene standards you build your business on. We were leading of avoiding that: the world in some areas while other companies hadn’t even started there.

• VEMAG machine concepts include ‘Function First’. From the • VEMAG supplies the world’s first vacuum filler with 3-A drawing board onwards, we try to make functions as durable Sanitary Standards. as possible. A good example is our vacuum fillers’ box-in-box • VEMAG fillers allow you to remove stoppers and feed units system, which doubly encapsulates electronic parts. hygienically, quickly and easily in the filling direction so you • Quick set-up times mean more time for production. VEMAG can clean them. This means you can clean seals properly lines can often start producing a completely new product because it is quick and easy to do, and practical for operators. simply by replacing a small attachment or module, which is • The vacuum channel between the feeding system and vacuum quick and easy. pump is much shorter and easy to clean. VEMAG is at the top • VEMAG trains agency and branch office technicians at its of the industry when it comes to hygiene standards. VEMAG Academy. This means our international service stand- • VEMAG feeding technology makes product distances shorter ards are always improving for your VEMAG solutions, and it and with fewer corners in the product flow. Hygiene is out- means you receive, from installation onwards, the service that standing, and the products are better. will secure your investment over the long term and make your • Fewer parts in the feeding system mean better hygiene. product available to meet your customers’ demands flexibly. There are also fewer parts to lose. SAUSAGE INDUSTRY 25 NOTHING CAN BEAT IT: THE VEMAG DOUBLE SCREW NOTHING CAN BEAT IT: THE VEMAG DOUBLE SCREW

At the heart of our fillers are VEMAG dou- and the double screw. ble screws. No other feeding technology is VEMAG technology enables you to use as flexible when it comes to adapting to components such as double screw parts The benefits: your product. that are made entirely out of stainless Lots of options in terms of pitch, diame- steel. This makes it more durable, and • Ideal for adapting to your ter, length, compression, profile and much also improves hygiene levels. product more all mean one thing: your product is • Handles raw materials gently perfect. A major benefit of VEMAG double screw • Flexibility for new product ideas technology, one which protects your prod- • Outstanding weight accuracy Perfection in precise weights or whole ucts, is the first-in-first-out principle: the even at high outputs pieces of muscle – specialist or compro- filling material is continuously force-fed. A • Optimised yield providing more mise, or both? system such as rotary vanes can drag the sellable product product several times through the pump, • Uniquely hygienic feeding system Every cleaning process enables the double whereas the mixture that arrives first at • VEMAG filling- grinding technology: screw to be changed quickly. You might the double screw is what arrives first at The ideal in-line extension and want to change the product quickly, or ser- the outlet. next step for sensitive products vice parts of the pump. The feeding sys- • Easy to disassemble and clean tem consists of just two parts: the housing • Lower service costs

SAUSAGE INDUSTRY 27 RELIABLE, EXPERT PARTNER MACHINE ANALYSIS AND PRODUCTION PLANNING WITH SMART LINK 4.0

Evaluate machine data effectively and quickly – and remotely: so you can know what is happening on which line, and when. All this is possible with the latest VEMAG Smart Link 4.0.

VEMAG Smart Link 4.0 is an operating and happening right now. Filling data is trans- product data collection system which al- ferred and stored, in the filler as well if lows you to evaluate your filling data at you want. The benefits: any given time and date. VEMAG Smart Link records internal machine parameters. This means that machine data such • Be ready for IoT: Networking as product filling weights, quantities your machines improves your It means you can see exactly what is hap- achieved, machine running times and production pening at a glance. Power consumption, much more can be viewed centrally, such • Receive a constantly updated pressure levels at the sausage grinder and as at your central office. This improves insight into your primary other information can be viewed, com- planning quality. production figures. One of pared and evaluated. This allows you to the things this enables is identify any weak points that may exist, as accurate product costing well as things you can improve and con- • Optimise costs by reducing tinue. It allows you to see what is actually giveaway and using resources more effectively • Achieve production security and constant quality by optimising your machine settings • Achieve transparency and trace- ability by automatically document- ing your production data

SAUSAGE INDUSTRY 29 RELIABLE, EXPERT PARTNER VEMAG: YOUR RELIABLE AND ­COMPETENT PARTNER

Service and maintenance: we are there for you worldwide.

At VEMAG we consider service part of our hensive training, and whenever repairs are DNA: you, the customer, are always at the needed. centre of our activities. VEMAG service technicians, subsidiaries, You can rely on: agencies throughout the world: we will al- • Global support ways provide you with outstanding service • Service technicians trained worldwide wherever you are, and we define manufac- by the VEMAG Academy turer standards to keep it that way, includ- • Sound technological training ing at our VEMAG Academy. VEMAG Service • Practice-based technician and user in Germany and our offices and agencies training abroad will support you from the installa- tion of your machine, throughout compre-

The VEMAG Customer Centre: Space for innovation.

Make your vision a reality with us and discover how you can improve your production. We can show you individual components and complete production lines at our VEMAG Customer Centre. We will show you, under realistic conditions, how you can make a wide range of foods.

Experience VEMAG up close and in action — our competent advisers are there for you.

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