Machine factory Seydelmann
| Maschinenfabrik Seydelmann KG
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| legal form | Limited partnership |
| founding | 1843 |
| Seat | Stuttgart , Baden-Wuerttemberg , Germany |
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| Number of employees | 350 |
| Branch | Mechanical and plant engineering |
| Website | www.seydelmann.com |
The machine Seydelmann KG is a German company for machinery and equipment for food production. The company also develops fully automated production lines. The machines and production lines are mainly used in the production of sausage and meat products, but also in the production of meat substitute products from plant-based proteins, cheese, vegetable and fish products, as well as in confectionery, soup, baked goods, baby food and Pharmaceutical industry.
The company is based in Stuttgart and the production site is in Aalen , both in Baden-Württemberg . The medium-sized family company in the sixth generation currently employs 350 people and works worldwide with a network of independent sales partners. The machines are used on five continents and in over 150 countries. The export share is 80 percent.
history
The company goes back to the mechanical workshop founded by Andreas Seydelmann in the city center of Aalen in 1843 , where he built, among other things, steam engines, fire engines and air and water pumps. In 1885 Louis Seydelmann took over the workshop and moved to the current production site on the outskirts of Aalen. The butchers in the neighboring slaughterhouse asked him to build a machine to mince meat for the purpose of making sausages. The success of this meat mincer laid the foundation for the food processing machinery division .
As a mechanical engineer, his son, Louis Seydelmann the Younger , combined the experience of his ancestors with the latest technological findings. He built the first transmission-driven cutters and wolves . The then common technique of chopping meat with weighing blocks only allowed a few cuts per minute. Therefore, the cutter Blitz developed by him in 1910 was a pioneering design with up to 800 revolutions per minute.
In addition to butchery machines, Seydelmann produced, among other things, all meat processing machines such as filling machines, bone saws, cooking kettles, smoking systems as well as shop and slaughterhouse equipment and machine tools before the Second World War . When after the end of the war the provision of food to the population became a priority, the focus was on the manufacture of meat processing machines such as cutters and grinders, smoking systems and shop fitting. Expansion into a global company began under the leadership of the brothers Ludwig and Horst Seydelmann .
In the following decades, the machines became more powerful and the cutters were given reverse gears for mixing coarse parts into the sausage meat . The manufacture of the machine parts from stainless steel and the conversion of force-intensive work processes such as loading and unloading to hydraulic support were also decisive. A groundbreaking set of cutting blades was developed and patented for the wolves in order to increase the quality of the minced meat and to sort out hard parts such as tendons, cartilage, bone fragments and foreign particles.
The latest meat technology findings led to the development of the vacuum cutter in the 1970s. The construction was patented and became the standard in the industry. The first cooking cutter followed a little later. This enables cutting and cooking in the same work step and leads to time savings and quality improvements, as flavor-bearing substances that would otherwise be lost with the cooking water are retained.
The problem of metal abrasion in the sausage meat was solved with a patented, contact-free perforated disc system for fine grinders and in 2016 at the IFFA (International Meat Industry Trade Fair) a vacuum fine grinder, which is equipped with a multi-stage vacuum system on the funnel, pump and cutting set, and thus a higher quality, Achieved better resource efficiency and longer shelf life of the product. Three years earlier, the K 1004 AC-8, the world's largest vacuum cooking cutter with a bowl capacity of 1000 liters, was presented there.
