Processing – Steen STEEN STATISTICS
The company was set up in 1960 after Pieter Steen invented his first table top skinning machine.
The Steen fi sh
processing range includes skinning, de-scaling, fi n-tail cutti ng and pin bone removing machines.
In 2002 Steen expanded and moved to their new premises in Kalmthout to consolidate the continuing growth of the company and to ensure their adaptability in the future
The enti re Steen range embodies an advanced
industrial concept for an effi cient
way of processing fi sh and poultry, hinging on our 50
years of experience in mechanical engineering.
Steen has to be seen New pin bone remover performs well against the competition I 50
Belgium based Steen has been making machines for the fi sh processing industry for more than 50 years but it sti ll gets excited when a new product is launched. The company’s pin bone remover was in-
troduced on to the market late last year, aft er successful trials, and is already performing well against the competi ti on, says internati onal sales manager Laurenz Seesing. Steen knew the machine would be ‘100 per
cent’ eff ecti ve on salmon but has recently dis- covered that it works very well on other species too, including sea bream, and further possibili- ti es are now being explored. The machine was developed aft er Steen
noti ced a hole in the market for a reliable and high-quality pin bone remover for industrial use - ‘this gave us the fi nal push to design our own and we knew how to do it,’ said Seesing. The way Steen approached the challenge
was a departure from the more conventi onal machines, that required either: compressed air (and therefore a pricey compressor); were batt ery operated (‘they don’t last long because
Above: Steen’s new pin bone remover
the batt ery breaks prett y fast’); had the motor built into the handle (‘it’s light and your hands get warm but the problem is the motor is not opti mal in wet conditi ons’). ‘So now we have developed one ourselves; it has a separate box where the powerful motor is placed and we have a turnshaft going to the head of the pin bone remover,’ said Seesing. ‘In this way, we have taken all the negati ve points of the machines on the market and turned them into positi ves.’ Steen uses half a century’s experience of mechanical engineering to make a whole range of processing machines for fi sh, and also for poultry, and has bases in the Netherlands, the UK (in Sevenoaks, Kent), Scandinavia and North America. The company, set up in 1960 aft er Pieter Steen
invented his fi rst table top skinning machine, expanded and moved to new premises in Kalmthout, Belgium, in 2002 under the new ownership of Jan Leuridan. Steen exports worldwide but the biggest markets for their products – which also include
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