Cutting line can reduce giveaway to less than 1 percent

Can guarantee performances up to 99.5 percent of good weight

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Mar 19th, 2019

BFR Systems ERMA EB80F cutting line

BFR Systems ERMA EB80F cutting line

The BFR Systems ERMA EB80F cutting line produces fixed weight portions from cheese blocks, which are first weighed and then scanned by a 3-D camera to calculate the thickness of each portion to be cut by the downstream ultrasonic cutter. The cutter can achieve output speeds up to 120 portions per min.

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