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Boxmeer, 15 June 2017
Marel Poultry and Harim Korea go sky high
Four new processing lines in a five-story plant
Marel Poultry has been chosen to equip one of the world's largest poultry processing plants.
The Harim company in South Korea will install four new Marel Poultry processing lines,
spread over five different floors in the fully modernized plant in the city of Iksan.
The South Korean enterprise Harim Co. selected Marel Poultry to be the main supplier for the
modernization of the Iksan factory. Both companies know each other very well, since the Dutch
manufacturer of poultry processing solutions already installed many advanced systems in Harim's
plants in Korea and the USA. "We have great confidence in Marel Poultry and their people. We
highly appreciate the cooperation and it's always a pleasure working with them," says Mr. Kim,
Chairman of Harim..
One of the largest
The complete reconstruction of the Iksan factory involves an extension to six (later even to seven)
processing lines. Four new high speed Marel Poultry lines will be installed, which will turn this plant
into one of the largest poultry processing facilities in Asia! A unique feature will be the impressive
visitor's center, including a 500 meters (1,640 ft) long windowed corridor which offers a complete
view of the production process in the factory. It illustrates the vision of openness of Chairman Kim.
"We like to show how our operations succeed in producing good quality and healthy chicken meat
with a strong focus on hygiene, food safety and good working conditions."
Latest technologies
The four new Marel Poultry processing lines will make use of the latest technologies in scalding,
defeathering, evisceration and chilling. Stork Nuova, the world's most efficient eviscerator with
integrated giblet harvesting line, will be at the heart of the evisceration department. All four lines will
include low maintenance, self-calibrating high speed SmartWeighers and advanced equipment
monitoring..
Conveying 20 meters high
In Korea, little land is available for building, as 75% of the country is covered by mountains. Harim
cleverly solved this problem by designing a five story high building, attached to the existing plant,
extending their existing 80,000 m2 (861,111 sq ft) production area to 150,000 m2 (1,614,586 sq ft).
Spacious air chill tunnels, which use proven Stork DownFlow "Plus" technology, will be positioned on
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the top floor. A Stork overhead conveyor system distributes broilers to all departments, keeping all
processes completely inline. In Harim's Iksan plant, this conveyor bridges a spectacular height
difference of more than 20 meters (65 ft), necessary to reach all stories. This exceptional plant will
bring poultry processing literally to new heights!
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Harim's five story plant in Iksan, South Korea, will feature four
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Marel Poultry is global supplier of innovative inline poultry processing equipment for broilers, turkeys and
ducks, providing solutions for all process stages and all capacity levels. The product range includes top quality
equipment for live bird handling, up to evisceration, giblet harvesting and processing, chilling, grading, cut-up,
deboning, bone detection, portioning, batching, end-product logistics, software solutions and service contracts
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