MAREL SOLUTIONS SQUARE THE CIRCLE BY MEETING STRICT QSR REQUIREMENTS

The QSR (Quick Service Restaurant) sector is a rapidly growing market for poultry processors around the world. QSRs, however, are highly demanding customers for the processors supplying them. Consistency must be the watchword for any QSR production line. Products should have a constant high quality and uniform width, length and weight.

Marel has many years of experience supplying QSR solutions worldwide. It has a wide range of solutions for portioning, slicing and splitting fresh deboned chicken breast and thigh meat. These systems produce strips, fillets, nuggets and cubes.




Safe food
Food safety is of crucial importance to QSR chains. Marel SensorX technology helps the customer ensure that all deboned breast and thigh meat destined for use in QSR products is free of bone and other contaminants. SensorX also weighs all meat going through the system. Used in combination with IRIS FI vision technology, this gives processors complete control over the raw material going into a subsequent downstream process.

Portions and trims
One such process is the cutting of fresh boneless breast or thigh meat into a wide variety of products with the same weight and dimensions. The twinlane Marel I-Cut 122 is the flagship of the I-Cut range. This machine can cut two different product specifications at the same time at throughputs of up to 2,000 cuts per lane. It offers a choice of cutting angles and numerous cutting patterns.




Icing on the cake
For processors serving QSR chains, Innova intelligence is the icing on the cake. Innova software monitors minute by minute yield, throughput, giveaway and order fulfillment, providing plant management with a highly effective production tool. In this way, Innova ensures profitable use of all raw material and high efficiency.

Processors supplying the sector are looking to optimize throughput and yield while minimizing labor and giveaway. With its technology and equipment, Marel squares the circle!