Tempered Beef Trim Block System

Birchwood Foods

Challenge

Birchwood Foods, a provider of fresh and frozen, raw and fully cooked beef, pork, and poultry products needed to find a way to quickly break tempered beef trim blocks back into their originial pieces for treatment with an antimicrobial spray.

One of their larger fast food clients changed the requirements needed to supply beef for their burgers, and Birchwood Foods was in need of an integrated system to take beef trim blocks from their microwaves, break them apart without cutting or grinding, spray the pieces down, and take to further processing.

Their current system required 22 employees over two shifts moving product from one part of the facility to another — not a very efficient or cost effective method to compete with other processors.

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Key Solutions

Upon meeting with the client and visiting the facility, we designed, fabricated, and installed a complete system as well as a brand new piece of equipment not on the market to take their boxed beef trim blocks from a microwave, break them apart, and deliver to a treating system.

Custom Equipment Design and Fabrication
Processing Line Layout
Conveyor Design and Fabrication
Platforms and Ergonomic Stands
Control System

Results

The results speak for themselves. Upon installing the new Fusion Tech solution, Birchwood Foods saw a drastic improvement in production capabilities and reduction in operating expenses.

Decreased labor expenses from 22 employees working over 2 shifts down to 7 employees working 1 shift.

Birchwood Foods loves their Fusion Tech solution so much so that they continue using Fusion Tech for their processing equipment needs.

reduction in labor

whole shift eliminated

100%

production goals with decreased labor

Fusion Tech worked with us to take our current operation of processing frozen beef trim blocks that took 2 shifts and 22 employees to reach our product goals and reduced it to a 1 shift operation manned by 7 people. They designed a new piece of equipment for us that took our semi-frozen trim blocks and gently broke them up so we could treat each piece to eliminate any bacteria. We told them what we needed the system to do, and they went to work researching options and designing a system that met our needs and saved us time and money. We are able to process the same amount of product in 1 shift that we did in two. I would highly recommend working with the team at Fusion Tech.

Charlie TamburelliOperations Manager – Birchwood Foods

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