AUTOMATION & ROBOTICS
ROBOTS PACKAGING POTATO
Stericlean robots in food production
t Friweika in Saxony, Germany, four hygienic robots pack up to 160 fresh potato dumplings per minute without making contact with the dumplings. The concept, which is as unusual as
developed and planned by
KRÖNING-Automation and implemented with Stericlean robots from Stäubli.
Things tend to get busy at Friweika eG before Christmas and other holidays, in the most literal sense. The company produces up to 180,000 rolled dumplings every day. That is just a small part of its product range, which also includes dumpling dough (up to 90,000 kg per day), ready-made fried potatoes, potato gratin and Friweika, short for ‘frische Weidensdorfer kartoffeln’ (fresh Weidensdorf potatoes), was founded in 1970 and employs around 350 people in western Saxony. As is to be expected with these quantities, production is highly automated. Because ready-made dumplings are a rapidly growing product segment, keyword convenience, the company was faced with the task of increasing output in this production area. The task was approached with KRÖNING in Dohna, a specialist in automation for food production which had designed several production lines for Friweika in the past.
PREMIERE: POTATO DUMPLINGS NOW PACKED BY ROBOTS
The KRÖNING specialists are setting standards in various respects with the newly created production line. The system is relatively compact, achieves high output and impresses with a top-level hygiene concept using Stäubli Stericlean robots, which are approved for aseptic production areas in the pharmaceutical industry. But more on that later. The production process starts with the weighing of the dumpling dough; each dumpling
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The automated packaging line for rolled dumplings is divided into three main parts: blister pack production and supply, filling the blister packs with dumplings and closing the packages.
During the filling process, four TX2-90 robots in Stericlean design pack up to 160 dumplings per minute. FEBRUARY 2025 | FACTORY&HANDLINGSOLUTIONS
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