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Metalquimia: Four Divisions, One Metalquimia

Metalquimia’s specialty is machinery and technology that propels your industrial production of cooked, marinated and cured meat products, as well as snacks. Founded in 1971 and based in Girona, Spain, Metalquimia has expanded its portfolio to offer optimal, personalized solutions for the processing industry. Their solutions include brine preparation systems, injectors, tenderizers, vacuum systems and cooking systems.



Meat Injectors

  • Model sizes to suit production needs
  • Maintains an even distribution of brine
  • Adjustable features for maximum protein extraction

Meat Injectors

Metalquimia offer a range of meat injector solutions to fit your operation. For example, the MOVIPLUS model features design elements suitable for businesses aiming to lead the cyber-industry of the future, including a smart spray injection system. This helps to achieve accurate brine distribution and uniform colour of your product. 

 

Highlights: 
  • Great simplicity in needle extraction for control, cleaning, and sanitation, with a cutting-edge design for optimal hygiene and food safety.
  • Cycle-adjustable tenderizer head for maximum protein extraction and optimized separation between heads for differential injection.

Advantages: 
  • Electro-Hydraulic Operation, controlled by an automaton and a touch screen display.

  • Increased operating cycles, achieving greater productivity.

  • Needles that can be flexible to your product's shape by incorporating Flexible Memory Effect needles.


Meat Tenderizers

  • Variety of formats to suit specific requirements
  • Reduction in cooking loss
  • Design and process improve yield

Meat Tenderizers

Solutions for meat tenderization are available from Metalquimia in both roller and blade formats. Both help to improve yield and reduce cooking loss. Additionally, certain models offer Clean Label Cut (ROLLERPRESS) or the ability to minimize defects (MULTIBLADE).

 

Highlights: 
  • Significantly increase the extraction surface of myofibrillar proteins by producing a multitude of cuts in the meat muscle.

  • A duo of blades or rollers to significantly increase the surface, contributing to the reduction of cooking loss and improving yield.


Advantages: 

Rollers

  • Automatic Roller Fixation for maximum protein extraction.

  • Automatic adjustment of Press Roller Separation and automatic regulation of the press roller pressure.

Blades

  • Belt feed, ensuring total tenderisation homogeneity throughout the meat mass.
  • Depending on the product to be processed, blades are adaptable via interchangeable blade heads.


Brines Preparation

  • Preparation of brines and marinades
  • Complete control over the preparation process
  • Fast dissolution of brine 

Brines Preparation

Solutions for both brine preparation and brine mixing with the MOLISTICK and BRINMIX Line from Metalquimia enable efficient preparation and greater productivity. The MOLISTICK is designed for fast and efficient preparation of any brine and/or marinade, while the BRINMIX promises less preparation time.

 

Highlights: 
  • MOLISTICK
    Designed for fast and efficient preparation of any brine and/or marinade, even suitable for high-viscosity brines.

  • BRINMIX
    Fast, controlled, efficient preparation of any brine or marinade up to 2,500 litres.


Advantages: 
  • MOLISTICK
    Designed with a high-speed stator and crushing rotor, it combines the actions of crushing, dispersing and mixing. 

  • BRINMIX
    Fast dissolution of the brine due to a high-flow recirculation pump, creating strong liquid turbulence.

    When combined with insulated and/or refrigerated accumulation tanks, it enables complete brine preparation.


Meat Stuffers

  • Available in suitable sizes for your production needs
  • Latest technology incorporated
  • Designed for easy maintenance and cleaning

Meat Stuffers

Available in a range of size configurations to suit your scale of production, Meat Stuffers from Metalquimia process meat pieces or whole muscles without destroying the meat’s morphology.

 

Highlights: 
  • Latest technology, such as hydraulic drive and pneumatic loading valve, to provide optimum processing. 

  • Ergonomic design with very easy access to all components for machine maintenance and controlled by a programmable logic controller. 


Advantages: 
  • Continuous vacuum stuffing of large pieces of meat without destroying their morphology.

  • High-quality final product with excellent texture, free of air pockets and the risk of bacterial contamination.

  • Processes product without bottlenecks, displacements or rotations, ensuring high-quality outcomes.


Meat Tumblers

  • Smart thermal control
  • Reduced processing time
  • Unmatched process performance

Meat Tumblers

With meat tumbler machines from Metalquimia, you can expect a considerable reduction in processing time. The mechanically efficient massaging reactor can rotate at high speeds, improving your yields and shortening processing time. Also available as a defrosting unit, ideal for minced or whole-muscle products.

 

Highlights: 
  • Programmable massaging and tilting cycles for each type of product

  • Total control of process parameters and assisted maintenance

  • Very gentle massage: for even thawed product of the highest quality


Advantages: 
  • On-line control of meat maturation temperature

  • Automatic vacuum level control and automatic cover

  • Mirror-polished interior finish for maximum ease of cleaning


Meat Cooking

  • Total control over cooking process
  • Ideal for modular growth
  • Technical parameters can be monitored

Meat Cooking

With the COOKLINE 4.0 from Metalquimia, the integration of moulding, cooking, and demoulding operations into a single line is possible. 

 

Highlights:
  • The latest in meat product cooking or cooling systems that integrate versatility into a fully robotic smart flow line.

  • Smart cooking with programmable cycles, monitoring and recording of all technical parameters of the process.


Advantages: 
  • Optimized Loading and Multi-mould Robots for the loading of different types of containers

  • External accumulation tanks for cooking/cooling water for optimal management of the cooking/cooling cycle

  • Boiler layout that allows for modular growth with easy access to devices and mechanisms to avoid disruption of overall operation


Cooked Sausages

  • Flexible loading options
  • High-performance automation
  • Gentle handling and process

Cooked Sausages

There are great advantages to loading sausages with Metalquimia. With the HD EVOLoader, new standards in sausage loading and handling are met. As an automatic manipulator, this machine surpasses the advantages of even the most demanding loading robots on the market. 

 

Highlights: 
  • Inline and 90-degree loading offering enhanced flexibility.

  • Increased productivity by maximizing the packaging unit capacity


Advantages: 
  • Designed for fast disassembly and an open-frame structure for optimum hygiene

  • Gentle process throughout to maintain the quality of the product

  • Improved Food Safety of the product, as no recirculation occurs


4.0 Plants – Meat Processing

  • Proven cutting-edge technology
  • Automatic and semi-automatic configurations
  • Variety of integrated processes

4.0 Plants - Meat Processing

Metalquimia offer the best-in-class automatic and semi-automatic manufacturing plants. These plants can integrate processes such as brine preparation, injection, tenderisation, product massaging, stuffing, clipping, thermoforming, and cooking or cooling in continuous-flow lines. 

 

Highlights: 
  • Guaranteed consistency, quality and safety of the finished product

  • Full control of processing parameters

  • Compact and continuous process with extremely high productivity and profitability


Advantages: 
  • Maximum ease of cleaning and sanitation

  • Guaranteed consistency, quality and safety of the finished product

  • Extremely high productivity and profitability


QDSolutions – Meat Sliced and Snack Products

  • Market-leading technology
  • Reduction in processing time
  • Allows for new product innovation

QDSolutions - Meat Sliced and Snack Products

QDSolutions from Metalquimia are ideal for either curing, cooking, baking or producing snacks through their innovative line design. QDS PROCESS for high quality sliced cured products with total regularity, QDS SNACKS for accelerated production time, QDSCOOK’R as a convection oven for Ready-to-Eat and Alt-Meat products and QDSBAKE oven for Ready-to-Eat and Alt-Meat products.

 

Highlights: 
  • QDS PROCESS
    Drastically reduced total processing times, eliminating interminable periods of time in the chamber. 

  • QDS SNACKS
    Designed for protien based snacks with continuous, automated and high productivity to meet demand.

  • QDSCOOK’R
    A linear belt forced air convection cooker, that can be used both as a steamer for fast and even pasteurizing with high moisture air or for a dry heat process. 

  • QDSBAKE
    With forced air convection cooking, baking and dehydrating new technology, all-in-one, based on a continuous moving spiral belt.



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