From the farm to the fruit and vegetable wholesaler with a huge convenience range: Kuttner in Austria introduces new healthy bowls to its range.

Ever since convenience products were first introduced to its range, the family company Kuttner has been processing its vegetable produce with KRONEN machines.

The VitERz.fruit research project at the BMKW Innovation Day for SMEs:

Since May 2020, KRONEN’s development team and the German Institute of Food Technology (DIL e.V.) have been working on the development of a prototype line that can guide fruits onto a measuring flume separately with perfect orientation so that they can then be classified.

Foodlink from the USA uses cutting machines and a hygienization system from KRONEN to process ingredients:

Foodlink, a food bank in New York State, produces over 5,000 healthy meals a day to feed those in need in the Rochester community, and also supplies schools and day cares, and their own Community Café.

Be it in sandwiches or ready-to-eat mixed salads, tomatoes are an absolute must and an extremely popular ingredient worldwide for meals ranging from fast food to everyday dishes and right through to haute cuisine. Against this background, the processing of tomatoes also plays an important role in the fresh-cut sector, in which ensuring optimal processing hygiene and excellent cutting quality, even in the case of ripe fruit, are particularly important.

GEWA AF and GEWA XL: for the gentle and economical washing of large quantities:

With the GEWA AF and the GEWA XL, KRONEN is bringing two high-performance washing machines and new hygiene standards to the market. The newly developed GEWA AF pre-washing machine uses a new and unique “Active Flume” washing system. It was specially developed to wash floating, leafy products, to submerge light, delicate products without mechanical stress, and to handle production peaks.

Baby leaf lettuce is a flavorsome and particularly delicate alternative to conventional salad leaves. It comes in many different varieties and is therefore ideal for freshening up a salad mix with leaves in various shapes and sizes. Unlike heads of lettuce, preparing baby leaf lettuce for processing involves less work because the leaves do not have to be separated first. That said, the sensitive leaves of baby leaf lettuce have a low bulk density and therefore place high demands on the processing procedure.

Celebrating the premiere of the DEW 200 dewatering press:

The IFFA 2022 will mark the premiere of the DEW 200 dewatering press, which is somewhat delayed due to the postponement of the event as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. The press was actually developed in cooperation with a sausage manufacturer back in 2020. It facilitates the quick and gentle removal of excess liquid from canned, pickled or defrosted vegetables, thus helping to avoid long draining times.

A multitude of international visitors experience innovations live and in the virtual showroom:

The international KRONEN team was delighted to welcome a multitude of visitors from around 55 different countries at two recent trade shows.

Potatoes are cultivated in many countries worldwide and are one of the world’s most important foodstuffs. From raw produce to ready-to-eat convenience products, they are processed in a wide variety of ways and come in all shapes and sizes, especially in the areas of restaurants and hotels, fast food, and catering.

Innovative food processing technology:

Hygienisation of whole fruits and whole vegetables – the DECONWA Prep: a unique washing system developed by KRONEN that improves hygiene and as a result extends the shelf life of end products.

Clean core removal and dividing peppers: 3,360 peppers per hour, with the semi-automated PDS4L.