The Duravant family of operating companies serve the food processing, packaging and material handling segments.
Cooke Aquaculture Chile, based in southern Chile's Cupquelan Fjord, is in business of producing and processing Atlantic and Coho Salmon.
The majority of the fillets are exported to the United States and processed into fixed weight portions, but a significant percentage is processed in Chile using a MARELEC portioning cutter.
Cooke Aquaculture Chile contributed to global success by controlling their supply chain, ensuring consistency in quality standards, and providing fast, fresh delivery to clients worldwide. Following the success of the MARELEC PORTIO 1 installed in 2016, Cooke Aquaculture decided to expand even further by purchasing the PORTIO 1DAP.
The dual lane cutter portioning machine has two cutting lanes, a faster cutting speed, portioning to fixed weight, length, or a combination of the two and a swivel arm touch-screen for intuitive programming. When the product enters the infeed lane, one top camera scans the product for maximum accuracy, and a visualisation of the cutting pattern appears on the touch screen. The product is set to a fixed weight in this case 8 ounces, and is then immediately cut and released through the outfeed, where it will be sorted and weighed by the workers. Cooke aquaculture has been able to optimize yield while maintaining qualitative and fresh products ready for delivery as a result of these advancements.
High throughput on a small footprint, the MARELEC machine does a great job.
Cooke seafood is a family-owned business that has been producing quality farraised salmon, wild-caught salmon, scallops, oysters, shrimp, sea bass, sea bream, crab, and other value-added products for six generations. A company that operates in pristine marine environments, relies on science and experts to ensure sustainability, sources feed from sustainable resources, and is always looking for ways to reduce its carbon footprint, with a mission to be a global seafood leader driven by an innovative team that provides superior products, service, and value to their customers in a safe and environmentally sustainable manner.
