In this newsletter we share some insight into new automation software, a new snack line in Iceland, activities in our workshop and an ongoing study about seasoning application.

There is no better feeling than to realize a project and achieving the high expectations from clients and project teams. When clients exceed their production expectations, we are even happier. Spending a lot of time with the initial product details is a prerequisite for a successful project.

Kind regards, Stefan Björk

Automation integrator PMA joined forces with machine builder Rosenqvists Food Technologies to significantly raise standards at Orkla’s factory in Åland. Using a new, standardised HMI platform with Simatic WinCC Unified by Siemens brings the factory one step closer to Industry 4.0.

THE CHALLENGE | At The Haraldsby factory in Åland, Orkla had a lot of systems using old equipment. Orkla needed to ensure uptime and operation in order to achieve efficient, safe and sustainable production.

THE SOLUTION | Working with Rosenqvists Food Technologies, PMA has raised the standard with a new, standardised HMI platform using Siemens panels and visualisation software within the Simatic WinCC Unified System.

THE RESULT | Orkla is able to produce the same quantities more efficiently and monitor KPIs to enable a faster response to deviations. User-friendliness is improved, resource consumption is optimised, waste is reduced, quality is improved and safety standards are raised throughout the process feeder.

On June 5-7, 2024, you will see us and our partner FPT Kiron Food Processing Technologies in hall 1, booth no D03, at Inter Food Tech exhibition. It takes place at Expo Center in New Delhi. You are most welcome to come and discuss your plans for french fries, potato hash browns, potato chips or other snacks.

Summing up the year of 2023 makes me proud and grateful. It is a great feeling to realize that Rosenqvists Food Technologies is a growing company and, most importantly, have a productive cooperation and dialogue with our clients. We get inspired, understanding that you are planning for more projects in the future. From our side, we are ready to support you, to the best of our ability.

Looking in the rear mirror, here are some highlights from the past year:

• Added seven new colleagues to our company
• Designed, built and delivered a chips processing system with capacity up to 2000 kg/hour
• Designed, built and delivered snack pellet lines for 1000 kg/hour capacity
• Designed, built and delivered equipment for 23 tons/hour capacity for coated french fries
• Designed, built and delivered frying system for 6400 kg/hour capacity for hash browns
• We supported you with more service orders than ever before

Read our newsletter where you can learn about one of our most recent projects in South Africa where installation and start-up was done in record time, a good example what can be achieved through a successful collaboration with a client. We also summarize some of the most interesting trends for 2024 scouted by Innova Market Insights.

On November 7-9, 2023, we hope to see you at Gulfood Manufacturing in Dubai. Together with our partners from Kaydee Food Processing Solutions, we will be in Hall 3, stand 3-18. Come and find out more how we can support you in your next project for snacks, potato chips, nuts, french fries or hash browns. Kamel Hamade and Stefan Björk will be ready to support you.

In this newsletter you can read about the new generation of automation software. This new platform from Siemens has enables us to develop new user interface for the operators. We are sharing a short film from one of our recent installations for French fries. New material for leaf springs in vibratory conveyors and a smart design for wear indication for the gliding strips are introduced. With increasing demands from the market, you will also get to know some of our new team members.

Daily operations continue at a fast pace at Rosenqvists Food Technologies, solving new design challenges. It makes me happy and proud to see all improvements we manage to implement in projects we are working on. During the latest six months, significant changes have been made to lower oil volume in our snack pellet fryer, improved protection for the potato speciality fryer, achieved better hygiene in our new drying system for French fries, lowered the surface water of the chips slices for potato chips and increased speeds in frying systems for prefabricated chips.

Our workshop recently celebrated 125 years of operation. In Gringelstad, in the south of Sweden, blacksmith Master Algot started to manufacture and repair tools, wagon wheels and horseshoes for local farmers and the nearby manor of Ugerup. This was back in 1898 when every village had its own blacksmith. There are many stories of Master Algot and his new constructions and inventions. These were products made from conversations with local farmers, solving their challenges.

In 1960, we started to manufacture irrigation machines under the brand Rosenqvists.

In 1976, we started to manufacture machines for food processing under the brand PPM. Eventually, this production merged into today’s Rosenqvists Food Technologies.

Still today, we listen to what our client’s needs, and we are ready to adapt our design to make it fit perfectly. The handcraft skills of the people working here is world-class and our most important resource. Moving forward, we proceed our focus on food processing and, of course, especially potato processing.

Kind regards,

Stefan Björk, Managing Director