News (Update 20-01-2012)))(   

Topkip introduces new videos of both its In-Line Combi Chilling System and its animal friendly Stunning System while in action.

These videos were taken in real life settings. In order to get a better impression of these innovative systems a new page has been added to the TopKip website.

Please go to introduction video's on our homepage to view the videos. We think you will find them very interesting.

Topkip Head Only Stunner awarded first prize. 

On behalf of the entire TopKip team, we are very pleased to inform you that Tuesday the 25^thof October 2011 our Head Only Stunner has been awarded first prize by the Dutch MVO Poultry award 2011 committee.

This award is an initiative of the Dutch MVO group (Societal Justified Entrepreneurship) representing the Product board Poultry and Eggs, the Dutch Poultry Centre and the foundation Fund for Poultry interests.

The MVO chairman, dr. A.H.G. (Alexander) Rinnooy Kan  (Also chairman of the Dutch Social Economic Council), personally presented the award to CTO Wim van Stuijvenberg at the LIV exhibition.

The next link to a Dutch website reveals the winners : http://www.pve.nl/pve?waxtrapp=ezthKsHsuOpbPREcBlBKHG&context=ffMsHsuOpbPREcB

This award not only confirms that the Head Only Stunner is a promising alternative for existing water bath stunning systems, it also recognizes that all efforts continuously taken by the entire TopKip team, to create an innovative machine with great potential, have ultimately start to pay off. It also generates another boost to finalize and implement the first commercial versions of the system throughout The Netherlands and to prepare our (potential) customers Worldwide for the stunning innovation for poultry processing.

A.G. Dirkzwager CEO

W.M. van Stuyvenberg CTO

Tailor-made stunning for every bird. 

The new “head-only” stunning device is a legal electrical stunning method without any use of water. Based on the head resistance of the birds, they will all receive the exact current rate. A very high accuracy and limited carcass and  meat defects are the results. Read more..

Source: World poultry Magazine By Ad Bal

Larger birds require high-speed cooling.

Poultry companies in the fresh and processed poultry meat segment increasingly prefer larger birds. These companies frequently tend to forget that it takes more time and energy to lower the body temperature of these larger carcasses after evisceration than the traditionally-sized birds. TopKip of the Netherlands recognised the issue and created a solution that it believes gives processors many more rewards.  Read more..

Source: www.worldpoultry.net  By Wiebe van der Sluis