{"id":2937,"date":"2017-04-05T16:59:20","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T15:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tongengineering.com\/?p=2937"},"modified":"2017-04-05T16:59:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T15:59:20","slug":"onion-processing-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tongengineering.com\/es\/2017\/04\/05\/onion-processing-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand grower processes loads more onions!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leading New Zealand grower, Bostock<\/em> New Zealand<\/a>, is now processing a whopping 100 tonnes of onions per hour. With new automated onion processing equipment from Tong Engineering, they have refined their processing.<\/p>\n

Bostock New Zealand<\/h3>\n

Bostock are based in Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand. In what is claimed to be one of the cleanest and purest growing environments in the world.\u00a0Bostock<\/em> New Zealand has been exporting a wide variety of quality produce for over 30 years. Including onions, apples and kiwi fruit. Bostock<\/em> needed to increase the capacity and efficiency of their onion grading and handling<\/a> process. As part of the company’s commitment to producing premium produce. Tong onion processing equipment was a natural choice. Supplied by their local Tong dealer Dobmac Agricultural machinery<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u00abAfter many years of positive growth, we are now exporting produce to over 20 different countries. Throughout Europe, the Middle East, Asia and North America,\u00bb explained Neville Gillespie from Bostock<\/em> New Zealand. \u00abWith demand for our onions continuing to grow, we needed to upgrade our onion processing facility. This will allow us to achieve a much higher throughput, whilst improving our cleaning and inspecting capabilities.\u00bb<\/p>\n

Why they chose Tong<\/h4>\n

\u00abWe chose to purchase Tong equipment, as our experience has proved it to deliver on capacity. Whilst being manufactured from a quality which lasts,\u00bb said Neville. \u00abWe also have a good relationship with their New Zealand dealer Dobmac. So we were confident that our new onion processing equipment could be specified to do the job we required.\u00bb<\/p>\n

Simon Lee, Sales Manager at Tong Engineering comments \u00abThe first phase of equipment upgrades at Bostock <\/em>New Zealand allowed them to effectively receive their harvested onions. With a 2.4m wide Tong Caretaker mobile vegetable grader<\/a> machine, this incorporated 6 rows of adjustable coils for effective removal of onion waste. Further to this, we have just commissioned two fully automated custom built EasyFill box fillers.<\/a><\/p>\n

Increased capacity<\/h5>\n

Neville adds \u00abWe also added automation to the bin filling function on our bulk unloading line. Following the increased capacity achieved with the Caretaker mobile vegetable grader<\/a>. We fill 5 tonne harvest bins at up to 100 tonnes per hour in good product conditions. Thanks to this addition, we are now capable of a throughput of over 1000 tonnes per day.<\/p>\n

Even better, when Tong and Dobmac last visited the facility, we shaved an extra 17 seconds off the time to fill each bin. Across 200 bins for the day, that’s the equivalent of another hour of operation! Allowing us to process another 100 tonne into storage. The Caretaker<\/a>, coupled with the fully automatic fillers, has resulted in our throughput growing out of sight!\u00bb<\/p>\n

Onion processing upgrade<\/h5>\n

\u201cBostock<\/em> have really turned the efficiency of their processes around. By upgrading their onion processing systems to higher capacity, automatic onion loading, cleaning and filling equipment. With our dedicated Tong<\/a> dealer Dobmac Machinery<\/a> on hand, Bostock<\/em> have a local point of contact. This allows us to discuss any future projects, ensuring labour continues to be utilised in the most efficient way\u00bb added Simon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Leading New Zealand grower, Bostock New Zealand, is now processing a whopping 100 tonnes of onions per hour. With new automated onion processing equipment from Tong Engineering, they have refined their processing. Bostock New Zealand Bostock are based in Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand. In what is claimed to be one of the cleanest and purest…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[101,102,117,225,248,287,332,345],"class_list":["post-2937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","tag-new-zealand-onions","tag-onion-grader","tag-onion-grading-line","tag-tong-engineering","tag-tong-vegetable-handling","tag-caretaker-mobile-grader","tag-vegetable-equipment-updates","tag-tong-grader"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongengineering.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongengineering.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongengineering.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongengineering.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongengineering.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tongengineering.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongengineering.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongengineering.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongengineering.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongengineering.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}