GROBA

Featuring an integrated robot, the fully automatic ALPHA 400-R unpacks foil-packed or foil-ripened cheese. The machine can easily be converted to process various types of cheese, such as Euroblock size and Cheddar. 

Features:

• Adjustable cutting height, cutting depth and cutting speed
• Suitable for various types of film and foil, e.g. PE and PP and packaging styles like for example thermoforming, shrinkwrap and pre-made bags
• Versatile: can be connected to a slicer feeder

The OMEGA 301 is a fully automatic derinding machine for rectangular naturally matured cheeses of any age. The machine features a robot with a derinding tool. 

Features:

• Suitable for rectangular and Carron cheeses of all ages
• Consistent derinding result with highly accurate repeatability
• Minimum waste percentages
• No heavy and labour intensive manual work
• Hardly any physical contact between cheese and operator

The BETA 400 cuts square and rectangular cheeses into bars, and round cheeses into halves. This is an ideal machine for pre-cutting cheese for further processing, e.g. on a slicer or a portion cutting machine.

Features:

• Exchangeable knife sets
• Automatic centring and cutting
• Semi-automatic (manual input and output)
• Adjustable cutting speed

The BETA 520-SR is a fully automatic, robotised slicer feeder which cuts whole cheeses into the number of cheese bars required. A robot sorts the cheese bars and groups them into the outfeed pattern required.

Features:

• Flexible sorting and grouping by a robot
• Many different cutting options
• Large variety of discharge options
• Can be integrated with existing slicers and portion cutting machines

The fully automatic SIGMA KKR-300 shreds soft, semi-hard and hard cheeses. The machine processes pre-cut blocks of cheese into shredded cheese. 

Features:

• Various shredding drums are available, for classical shredded cheese, fondue cheese, flakes, Parmesan crumbs
• Perforations: 1.5 – 2 – 2.5 – 3 – 3.5 – 4.2 – 5 – 6 – 7 mm
• Easy-to-exchange shredding drums
• Flexible application: stand-alone or in a cheese shredding line

The SIGMA R-400-300 is a fully automatic cheese shredding line for large volumes of up to approx. 3,000 kg/h. 

GROBA also manufactures cheese shredding lines with lower (up to 1,000 kg/h) and higher capacities (up to 5,000 kg/h).

Features:

• Can be connected to e.g. a weighing system or a packer
• Can be fully disassembled for cleaning
• Modular design consisting of individual machines
• Line control to ensure a continuous production process

The LAMBDA 150- HS is suitable for cutting cheese slices into animal shapes, letters, numbers, cartoon characters, logos, etc. 

Features:

• Four punch positions for high capacity
• Easy to exchange knife sets
• Separate infeed and outfeed belts
• Automatic cutting residue removal and thus less labour-intensive

The LAMBDA 401 is a semi-automatic cutting machine suitable for cutting cheese into all kinds of snack sizes such as cubes, sticks or triangles.

Features:

• Flexibility in types of cheese snacks
• Multiple cutting process, manual cheese placement
• Short changeover times due to exchangeable knives
• Optionally automated finished product discharge

The LAMBDA 405 cuts cheese into cheese snacks, e.g. sticks, to be packed individually. The machine features a robot unit that places the cut cheese snacks in a packer. 

Features:

• Automatic placement of the end products into the packer
• High-quality cut end products with ‘neatly cut and straight edges’
• Short changeover times due to exchangeable knives
• Flexibility in types of cheese snacks

The PHI 400 machine vertically portions various types of round, square and rectangular cheeses. The PHI 400 contains a portioning set that is configured and produced to customer requirements.

Features:

• Easy to exchange portioning sets
• Many cutting options
• Cutting with or without core
• Easy manual operation

THE PHI 350 machine vertically6 portions various types of round, square and rectangular cheeses. The PHI 350 contains a portioning set that is configured and produced to customer requirements.

• Easy to exchange portioning sets
• Many cutting options
• Cutting with or without core
• Easy manual operation
• Extra options: heating, light curtain, centering unit 

The KAPPA 620 is a fully automatic cheese portioning machine. 

Features:

• Minimum product deformation
• Accurate cutting process
• Variable portion weight or dimension adjustment

The DELTA HC-25 cobot automatically depalletizes foil-packed cheeses onto the infeed conveyor belt of the ALPHA 400-R defoiling machine.

Features:

• Small footprint
• Hygienic
• Safe (no safety fence needed)
• Ergonomic

The GROBA PSI ShredScan has been developed to detect foreign particles in a stream of grated/shredded cheese that existing inspection systems (e.g. metal detectors) do not detect.

Features:

• Continuous in-line detection of contaminations in shredded cheese
• 24/7 control; the system constantly scans foreign particles in the stream of shredded cheese
• Foreign particles are detected before the shredded cheese is packed
• Automatic image capture and archiving
• The system can be integrated into existing cheese shredding lines