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Cover Story Europe’s Most Innovative Spice Production State of the Art Plant Technology sets the Bar High for Future Quality Standards. “We are building Europe‘s most innovative factory for herbs and spices,“ claims Euroma when talking about its new milestone for the future in Zwolle (Netherlands), who just recently took over Intertaste. As one of the leading producers of high-quality herb and spice mixtures as well as texture solutions, they instructed Daxner from Wels (Austria) with engineering, fabrication and installation of a fully automated plant solution centering around the well-proven Daxner Container Handling System DCS. The showcase plant was taken into operation in 2019. It was built on an area the size of 5 soccer fields, houses a 29 m high bay storage and was awarded the BREEAM Excellent Sustainability Certificate. First and foremost the plant enables Euroma, known as pioneer of gentle herb processing, to increase the production volume and reach a new level of food safety. Euroma aims to unify the entire dries processing of all exisiting factories at the new production site in Zwolle. Mr. Teun van Veen, project manager at Euroma, still remembers the start of the project well: “Euroma was preparing its visit to the Powtech. By preparing the visitors list we found the company Daxner delivering a complete concept for a spices and herbs plant. We found a reference article on the website of Daxner. We were enthusiastic about what was written in that article. First contact was made and we filled in our requirements on a questionnaire of Daxner and sent some additional information.“ An initial meeting followed and Euroma placed its first order for a pre-engineering of the plant. Fully automated Container Handling System DCS The technically impressive plant design guarantees a high throughput performance and dosing accuracy. The possibility of cross contaminations and dust formation was reduced to a minumum. According to the hygienic design requirements, all components were executed in stainless steel and designed for easy cleaning. Perfectly in sync with the fully automated Daxner Container Handling System DCS, laser operated Automatic Guided Vehicles AGV make their way through the production facility to collect the valuable dry components. The raw components are divided into large, middle and small components. Large components, like wheat flour or 10.000 l weighing bins above the high performance mixing lines 6 food Marketing & Technology • August 2021

Cover Story potato and corn starch, are delivered in tanker trucks and stored in 12 large outdoor silos. A pneumatical vacuum conveying system transports them to the day bins within the plant. Mobile bag and big bag intake stations The filling of large and middle components into day bins happens with mobile bag and big bag intake stations. Below the day bins, highly precise scales were installed. Depending on the product‘s qualities, separate day bins as well as weighing systems are assigned accordingly. This exact allocation avoids cross mixing with any allergenic raw materials. Once all of the seperate raw materials are dosed into the weighing bins, the collection process with the Daxner Container Handling System DCS combined with the Automatic Guided Vehicles AGV commences. One AGV, loaded with a 1,500 liters container, drives from weighing bin to weighing bin and fills itself with the preweighed raw materials. This concept saves time: As soon as one raw material component is picked up, the The containers move through the plant with the help of Automatic Guided Vehicles weighing bin can dose the batch for the next container immediately. Supplying the small and minor components The manual feeding of the containers for small and minor components happens on the ground floor. According to the goods-to-man-concept, all ingredients are brought to the operator: the containers with the AGV, the small components in bags on palletts and the pre-commissioned minor components in crates from the minor components storage (MCS). Therefore, the system achieves a time optimized Fully automated collection system with Daxner Container System DCS combined with FTS System food Marketing & Technology • August 2021 7

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