IDM | Technology/IT
State-of-the-art cheese
shredding line
Groba’s move into robotics
Dutch specialist for cutting and handling of cheese, Groba B.V.,
has increased its staff after moving to new premises in Nederweert,
the Netherlands. The company is now able to handle
projects better than before in terms of more flexibility for
customer requirements and speed of project management. IDM paid
a visit to the "new" Groba company.
"We celebrate our 40th anniversary this year and have, meanwhile,
moved to the fourth building," comments Groba CEO
Robin de Groot on the continued growth of the company. "After
entering the new Nederweert facilities, we have upped our
workforce by 5 to 40 workers. Six employees manage engineering
and one worker is solely responsible for modularization of
our equipment. Two other members of staff are fully engaged
on software and robotics."
26 · 9 2017 | international-dairy.com
Projects and robotics
Robotics is taking an ever bigger part in large projects carried out
by Groba. The start was made by the cheese de-rinder Omega
which the company has developed some two years ago and which
is now going out into field tests. Here, Groba acquired significant
expertise in robotics which is now carried on to the bigger projects.
Another important step was a cheese shredding line for
an Australian manufacturer with a capacity of 6 tons per hour
whereby the shredded cheese feeds three multi-head weighers.
And there was a large line for cutting cheese into cubes and
shapes that Groba supplied quite recently.
"None of our large lines resembles the other as we tailor our equipment
according to customer requirements," says Sales Manager
Bart van der Vleuten. This was clearly to be seen at a brand new
Groba SIGMA high-capacity cheese shredding line (photo: Groba)