MAIN BENEFITS
- Less lean give away
- Provides safer, more valuable products
- Labour saving
- Fewer bone complaints
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Overview
Marel’s trim management system is designed to analyse beef and pork trim for fat/lean ratio, and give processors the ability to manage their trim and hit target fat percentage.
Features
- X-ray technology for accurate chemical lean measurements
- Batching into desired chemical lean ratio
- Available as stand-alone unit or integrated with a Marel StreamLine
- Superior bone and other contaminant detection
Precise chemical lean ratio
Using Marel’s superior grading and batching technology, the system creates different batches of a precise chemical lean ratio, based on the processor’s requirements (e.g. 50/50, 75/25 and 80/20).
X-ray technology
The core of the Marel trim management system is the SensorX, which uses x-ray technology to scan for density variations in the product. These variations enable the SensorX to detect the presence of hazardous contaminants and decide the precise chemical lean (CL) ratio of the meat.

- Trim is transferred from the deboning line to the infeed unit. 2-4 sorting operators visually grade the trim by placing the trim pieces into one of the available buffer bins (e.g. fat, medium, lean). The bins then collect a batch of 2-4 kg before dropping the product onto the SensorX infeed conveyor.
- Batches enter the SensorX one by one. By scanning the meat for density variations, the SensorX is able to find the accurate CL, batch weight and detect any hazardous contaminants embedded in the meat.
- The results of each SensorX CL measurement are sent to the grading unit and the meat is sent to the allocated gate to form a large batch of the correct fat/lean ratio, specified by the processor.
- Product with hazardous contaminant such as bone, metal or glass is removed from the process, through specified reject gates.