A good slicing plant does not only rely on beet slicers but also on knife maintenance machines. Maguin offers a large range of machines to be selected according to the factory capacity and the labour costs:

• Manual Knife block dismantling/mounting/adjusting machine
• Automatic knife block dismantling/mounting/adjusting machine
• Manual straightening/grinding machines associated with semi automatic rough or fine sharpening machines
• Automatic straightening/grinding machine associated with one or more automatic rough or fine sharpening machine(s)

The manual machines require the constant presence of an operator to feed the knives to each machine.

With automatic machines, a complete slicing plant needs only one operator per shift for capacities up to 15,000 t/d according to the knife wear.

Maguin offers a complete knife preparation station including knife block washing tank (water and air).

Manual machines enable rates of 80 to 100 knives/hour for straightening and grinding machines and of 30 to 50 knives/hour for semi-automatic rough or fine sharpening machines according to the operator’s dexterity.

With automatic machines, rates can reach more than 200 knives/hour for straightening/grinding, 40 knives/hour for rough sharpening and 60 knives/hour for fine sharpening.