Leading vegetable handling equipment manufacturer, Tong Engineering, is once again looking forward to exhibiting at the UK’s largest arable event, Cereals, to present its latest equipment range for 2016.<\/p>\n
Exhibiting at this year\u2019s event on stand 258, Tong will have the latest model of its Storemaker<\/a> hopper cleaner machine on stand, alongside the company\u2019s marquee where light refreshments will be offered to visitors to the event.<\/p>\n \u201cFollowing on from the success of the latest models of Tong\u2019s market-leading Caretaker mobile vegetable grader<\/a>, the Storemaker on show at the event has been built with all the latest technologies and features that have proved very popular on our Caretaker grader,\u201d said Nick Woodcock, Sales Manager at Tong Engineering.<\/p>\n Like new models of the Caretaker, the new Storemaker offers the very best energy efficiency, with Tong\u2019s all electric Blue Inverter Technology drive, as well as featuring the company\u2019s new generation EasyClean separator<\/a>, with inverter direct drive motors on every shaft, ensuring minimal maintenance and refined control.<\/p>\n Another feature on the new Storemaker<\/a> includes the option of Tong\u2019s new and advanced Pro-Series control interface, which is offered as part of its Auto-Touch HMI touch screen control. With added benefits including a new, larger display with easy to use graphical controls, the Auto \u2013Touch HMI Pro-Series not only provides total touch-screen control of machine speed and settings, it also offers advanced diagnostics including a machine health status report, plus precise fault detection and location of any machine faults or E-stop alerts, significantly reducing downtime and maintenance. Complementing the latest EasyClean separator and Auto-Touch HMI advancements are a number of additional features on new Storemakers, including a heavy duty folding-side hopper design as standard for easy transport, as well as an upgraded drawbar and tailgate system for added strength and durability. Trailer reversing sensors for quick and easy loading into the hopper are also an option on new Storemakers, making the whole loading process even more efficient.<\/p>\n \u201cAs well as displaying the new Storemaker at this year\u2019s Cereals, we are also looking forward to discussing the other new product developments that Tong has introduced to the market this year, to offer even more efficiencies to the crop handling process,\u201d added Nick.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are very proud to be bringing a unique and exceptionally advanced optical sorting machine to the UK vegetable handling industry in the form of the Swiss-manufactured Sortop Visar Optical Sorter,<\/a> which is gaining much interest for its capability to offer fully automatic optical grading of crop without the need for manual sorting. This really is giving vegetable growers and packers a new and advanced way of sorting their crop in a much more productive way,\u201d explained Nick.<\/p>\n