This shade-loving vegetable is not only healthy but also much more versatile than people may think: chicory can be served as a salad, sautéed as a side dish, coated in cheese and baked in the oven, or enjoyed as individual leaves with a variety of fillings. It also offers plenty of healthy nutrients and is therefore now available all year round.

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.

"For Kronen GmbH, April was dominated by the two trade fairs Fruit Logistica and Anuga Foodtec. A few weeks after the last fair, they are taking stock. "We are delighted to finally be back in personal contact with the industry after such a long break of events. It was clear that both exhibitions would attract even fewer visitors, but we are satisfied with our presentation and the contacts we were able to make," said the spokesman for the Kronen Board of Directors Stephan Zillgith. “The innovative salad processing line in the virtual showroom attracted particular interest, as did the Convenience Avocado Line, which we demonstrated for the first time at a trade show, and proven Kronen classics such as the GS 10-2 belt cutting machine.”

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.