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PINHALENSE WEEDING EQUIPMENT NOW AVAILABLE FOR EXPORT
Pinhalense has been manufacturing weeding equipment for over a year now, with sales restrict- ed to the Brazilian market. Clients who visited Pinhalense last year had the opportunity to see this equipment being manufactured, and some also saw field demonstrations of the tractor- mounted machines that can be used for most crops, including coffee. In March 2011 the company announced that
the equipment will now be available for export, and said it had opened a new manufacturing facility to make the product and other equipments in its well- known range of coffee harvesting and processing technology. Pinhalense’s third factory will be in Espírito
Santo do Pinhal in the state of São Paulo on a four acre plot bordering the main road to the town, a strategic road for the coffee business because it links the producing regions of Mogiana and South Minas to each other and to Santos harbour. The new manufacturing facility is in a 60,000ft2
warehouse fitted with state-of-the-art machine tools, modern material and product handling equipment, and an eco-friendly painting station. Plans already exist for the construction of a sec- ond warehouse of the same size, next to the first one, as sales expand and the product line grows. The main product now available for exports is
tractor-mounted weeding equipment that may be used for both soil clearing before planting and weeding between the rows of perennial crops such as coffee. In both cases, the organic materi-
DELTA CAFÉS SELECTS NEUHAUS NEOTEC GRINDER
Delta Cafés, one of the leading coffee pro- ducers in southwest Europe and a market leader in Portugal, recently ordered roll grinder technology from Neuhaus Neotec in Germany for a demanding application grinding coffee for the production of cap- sules and pads. Delta Cafés was founded in 1961 in Campo Maior, where the com- pany still has its head office. When it start- ed producing coffee it had a daily output of less than 30kg, but has expanded sig- nificantly over the years to the extent that the company’s well-known logo is not only found in Portugal and Spain but in many other European countries and outside Europe.
al cut by this hammer-mill type of weed-cutter and is left on the surface of the soil. The cutting shaft operates close to but above the soil in order not to disturb topsoil. The field performance of the new equipment
has been so satisfactory that all sale estimates have been surpassed and the construction of the new factory had to take place much earlier than expected. The new weeding equipment is connected to
the PTO of a tractor with a minimum engine size of 25hp, and is available in widths from 0.90m to 2.20m (35in to 85in) and with options to operate behind the centre of the tractor or skewed to either side if weeding below the branches of perennial crops is required.
Pinalense’s new range of
weeding equipment is now available for use in coffee farms
BUHLER TO HAVE MAJOR PRESENCE AT INTERPACK
Buhler has announced that it is exhibiting 11 new machines at the for thcoming Interpack exhibition in Dusseldorf, Germany. Interpack 2011 takes 12-18 May 2011 and Buhler will be in Hall 03, Stand 3C43/D28. The new range of products
includes solutions for a wide variety of tasks in chocolate, cocoa, coffee and extrusion processing as well as drying and optical sor ting. In cocoa these include the
PreGrind beater blade mill and FineGrind bead mill. Also to be exhibited by the company is the ShearMix mixer for the Buhler DoMiReCo dosing/mix- ing/refining/conching process; and the ChocoStar Compact line concept for production capacities of 500-1,500kg/hr. Coffee equipment includes
the Roastmaster 20, a 20kg drum roaster with a user- friendly innovative automation system, and the GrindDefine 600, a new coffee grinder for the ground coffee (capsule market).
May 2011 C&CI
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