COMPLETE PIG SLAUGHTER LINE SOLUTIONS

A single-track line moves carcasses on one rail with a combined spiral scalding and dehairing machine as the core, and sticking, evisceration and splitting stay manual — it is built for 50 to 200 head a day and commissions in weeks. An automated line separates every station on enclosed track: continuous bleeding conveyor, two-stage spiral scald and dehair, breast-removal conveyor, synchronous offal inspection, robotic splitting and a division conveyor to the cut-up hall, which is what carries 300 to 500 head a day across two or three shifts. Above roughly 200 head a day the single track cannot keep the sticking team and the dehairer in balance, so we move you to the automated format.

Not on the same stations. A pig carcass is scalded and dehaired, a cattle or sheep carcass is skinned — the two processes share almost no equipment after stunning. What plants commonly do is share the building: one lairage, one utilities block and one chill store, with a pig line on one side and a cattle or sheep line on the other. We have delivered combined plants this way and will draw the zoning so the two lines never cross.

It depends on the scald method and how much is recirculated. As a budgeting figure, a single-track line works on roughly 0.3–0.5 m³ of water and 15–25 kg of steam per head, while an automated line with a filtered, recirculated scald bath, a demand-controlled wash and heat recovery sits meaningfully lower per head despite the higher rate. We issue the exact boiler output, chiller duty, water and effluent figures with the quotation, calculated from your head rate — those numbers are what your civil contractor needs, not a catalogue average.

For most plants the two-stage spiral machine is the right answer: the carcass enters the scald section and passes straight into the dehairing section without rehanging, which protects the skin, keeps the scald curve tight and gets a 98%+ dehairing rate at up to 750 head an hour on our two-stage unit. A separate scalding tank suits very small or very specialised operations — whole intact-skin products, ritual requirements, or lines under about 50 head an hour. Tell us your product mix and we will spec the right combination.

The rule is separation with traceability: red offal and white offal travel on their own carriers, in synchrony with the carcass, past a dedicated inspection station with wash-down, and every set stays identifiable to its carcass until the inspector releases it. Our viscera synchronous inspection conveyor carries the pluck and the digestive tract on flipping, auto-cleaning trays so the inspector sees every set in sequence without cross-contact — and the same conveyor layout is what export audits check first.

Yes. We spec and supply the stunning station with the line — electric stunning for single-track plants, and box or CO₂ systems sized to the head rate for automated lines — together with the gating and drive pens that feed it. The welfare rules that apply in your market determine the method, so we ask for them at specification stage rather than after the layout is drawn.

Yes — our engineers have installed lines across Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Central Asia. A single-track line is commissioned with one engineer plus your local labour in two to four weeks; an automated line runs four to ten weeks with two engineers. Where a site visit is difficult, we run the commissioning on live video with your team, and every machine ships with a factory test video, wiring diagrams and an English manual. Spare parts and consumables are shipped with the line so the first three months never wait on freight.

A single-track line typically leaves the factory 30–45 days after the deposit and drawings are confirmed, and an automated line 60–90 days depending on the station count. The layout drawings, utility schedule and foundation plan come in the first two weeks so your civil works run in parallel with fabrication. Ocean freight adds the usual three to six weeks depending on destination, and we load and photograph every container at our works before it seals.

The by-product rooms are sized to the same head rate as the main line, because a bottleneck there backs up the kill floor. As reference points: the head splitting machine handles up to 500 heads per hour, the trotter hair removal machine processes 1–2 tonnes of trotters per hour, the shell remover around 200 trotters per hour, and the intestine washer cleans a casing piece in roughly 50 seconds. We balance the by-product stations against your head rate and product plan — some plants run them on the second shift instead.

A station-by-station equipment list with models and quantities, the layout drawing, the utility schedule (power, water, steam, compressed air, drainage), the container loading plan, the price EXW or CIF, the lead time per batch, and the wear-parts kit for the first six months. Everything factory direct — you are quoting with the manufacturer, not a trading desk, which is also why the wear parts stay available years later.