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about Anglia Autoflow

Since 1969 Anglia Autoflow has been designing, developing and manufacturing a range

of innovative and leading-edge products for the food processing industry.

The results of which, have ensured that the company has developed an enviable

worldwide reputation for its outstanding standards of product innovation, functionality

and design.

the philosophy

The requirements of the food processing industry are unique, and by their very nature

extremely high. Coupled with the Anglia Autoflow belief in providing the utmost in humane

systems for live produce, along with the very highest standards of hygiene possible,

ensure that the company’s products not only meet but surpass those demanded by the

industry. In addition, high levels of welfare ultimately result in better quality end product,

producing more ‘A’ grades.

For many companies, challenging problems call for innovative ideas and solutions.

Design and development demand effective and efficient solutions and provide the focus

to the philosophy at Anglia Autoflow. Using our extensive practical and technical

experience, our Research and Development team utilise their innovative thinking with the

challenges and considerations of each customer’s requirements. Quality is an integral part

of Anglia Autoflow. And with a team of dedicated and trained staff employing the highest

manufacturing standards, matched with professionalism and dedication, our superior

quality standards are always evident throughout each project.

Our philosophy spans from initial contact with each customer, and permeates through to

the successful completion of every project and beyond.

With headquarters in the UK and centres for sales and service around the world,

Anglia Autoflow is able to support you wherever you are.

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welfare

These days, the welfare of all livestock is of paramount importance. And rightly so, for a

number of different reasons. The Easyload concept has been carefully designed around a

number of issues, the most important and fundamental being bird welfare. In addition,

high levels of welfare produce better quality grades and ultimately result in better end

product and increased profits.

As the poultry processing industry shifted from predominantly frozen produce to high

grade fresh products, extra factors and criteria have had to be taken into consideration

when looking at the production processes involved. And with social and market demands

ever challenging current practice, the Easyload system is well equipped to offer sound

and humane solutions.

Ensuring that birds are calm and stress free during collection, transportation and inplant

handling at the processing factory, not only benefits each individual bird but also has

untold benefits to the Processor as well. Easyload addresses a number of welfare issues.

● The Easyload system minimises stress to each bird

● Virtually no broken bones when using Easyload

● Less than one bird per 1000 as ‘Dead on Arrival’ when using Easyload

● Birds are caught, loaded and transported in a gentle and humane manner

● Easyload keeps human contact to an absolute minimum, reducing stress and

possible neglect

● Easyload drawers provide excellent ventilation with high grip perforated flooring

surfaces to keep birds secure and comfortable, preventing build up of debris

and water

● Humane gas stunning has processing benefits as well as minimising stress

levels to each bird

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the easyload live bird handling system

Easyload isn't just a transportation method. It's a complete live bird handling system. It's a system that provides competitive

advantage through effectiveness and efficiency, and it's a system that has proved time and time again that it is simply unmatched,

providing numerous benefits to you the processor. The Easyload solution has been developed around

the highly versatile and worldwide proven Easyload Drawer and Module System.

Catching methods have been made easier and faster by the large open top drawers of the Easyload

System. The Easyload Harvester offers an impressive and effective alternative to traditional catching

and eliminates human contact with the birds.

Once loaded and packed with either chicken, turkey or duck, the Easyload Modules and Drawers are

designed to fit onto different truck or lorry formats for transportation to the processing plant.

At the processing plant, the full automatic Easyload Inplant System then begins the pre-line production

process. The system also washes and sanitises the Easyload Modules and Drawers before becoming

available for reuse.

The Easyload Inplant System delivers the live birds to either a hang on line, which uses traditional

stunning methods, or to the Easyload Controlled Atmosphere Stunner, after which the birds are presented

lifeless to the hang on line. The hanging of lifeless birds enables processors to effectively overcome a

number of welfare issues in addition to benefiting from a multitude of processing advantages.

...a system that provides competitive advantage...

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easyload harvesting

easyload drawer and module system

easyload inplant

easyload controlled atmosphere stunning

The Poultry Harvester is the next generation of live bird catching loading and packing and

brings not only a new dimension but many benefits to the initial stage of processing.

Designed for rapid harvesting and loading of poultry in a humane manner, the Harvester

presents birds for transportation to the processing plant in a stress and damage

free condition. Automatic catching can be used in many different conditions but may be

unsuitable in some instances due to varied working environments.

Highly manoeuvrable, working in both posted and clear span sheds, the Harvester gently

gathers in excess of 200 birds in 30 seconds before transferring them to the Easyload

packing unit, an incomparable system which automatically places the birds in the

standard Easyload drawers.

Needing just one operator driving the catcher, another to operate the forklift, the Harvester

loads birds accurately and humanely at a rate of 20 modules per hour. At a 2kg live bird

weight this equates to an average of 6,000 birds every hour.

● Reduced labour requirements mean reduced costs

● Reduced bird damage ensures maximum yield

● Increased welfare considerations meet the ever growing need of today’s

social and market needs

● Easily moved between sites

● Birds need no human contact, reducing stress, damage and

possible abuse

● Control over catching ensures careful, conscientious and effective

harvesting

● Modules don’t enter the shed improving hygiene and food safety by

avoiding cross contamination issues

● Fully compatible with existing Easyload Modules and Drawers

● Consistent accuracy of counting compared to manual catching

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...reduced labour requirements means reduced costs...

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The Easyload live bird handling solution is designed around the highly versatile and

worldwide proven drawer and module system.

The round cornered drawers are supplied with open or closed floor formats, depending on

ventilation and other requirements. Manufactured from a technically advanced grade of

high impact plastic, the drawers also offer a high grip surface keeping birds secure and

allowing water to easily drain away.

The drawers, easily slot into the three, four or five tier module, depending on bird size.

The module units are available in a mild steel hot dip galvanised finish or, in a high grade

stainless steel. The stainless steel option has the added advantage of producing a sealed

framework with no galvanising holes, allowing no hidden areas for dirt and bacteria to build up.

● Corrosion free and smooth frame finish modules ensure soiling is easier to remove

● Rigid and durable module structure specifically designed for forklift handling

● Clean top modules ensure improved cleaning

● Birds remain in the drawer to the hang on line, with no further human contact

whilst still alive

● Total flexibility to work with auto harvesting or hand catching

● Transportation options include side curtains, end curtains and drawer

retaining clamps

● Designed to fit across the width of standard lorries

● Only single sided fork lift access required to lorries

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...total flexibility to work with auto harvesting or hand catching...

Live bird reception is a critical area in every modern processing plant, both in terms of

efficiency, staffing and factors affecting bird welfare. By applying the Easyload principles

and standards to all aspects of live bird handling from catching to hanging, the Easyload

system brings exceptional standard and quality levels to the pre-line production process.

With computer controlled technology, the Easyload Inplant system is fully automated,

controlling the timing for the arrival and processing of the birds.

When arriving at the plant, and after being placed in the holding area, the birds, still in the

Easyload drawers, are placed onto the Easyload Inplant and then enter the Controlled

Atmosphere Stunner without stress or human contact. The system automatically matches

the speed of the killing line. During the process the birds remain in the drawers, limiting

any stress and damage. The system ensures the continuous flow of drawers, in

processing order (first in, first out), to the hang on point.

The empty drawers are then inverted, removing all loose debris before being hygienically

and automatically washed and sanitised with integral high pressure pumps and filtration

systems. The clean drawers are then reinverted before being reloaded into the

automatically cleaned and sanitised empty module frame.

With hygiene and safety issues of primary importance, and compatibility with modern

disease control methods, the layout of the inplant machinery purposely lends itself to

separate clean and dirty areas within the reception bay.

● High speed flexible processing, up to 12,000 birds per hour

● Separate washing and sanitising of drawers exceeds modern hygiene

requirements

● Rapid lorry turnaround and optimum bird conditioning

● Reduced labour costs mean reduced overheads

● Reduced bird damage and stress dramatically improves meat quality

● Hang on area can incorporate dust extraction and lighting for the

comfort of the operators

● Directly integrates with Controlled Atmosphere Stunning

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...brings exceptional standard and quality levels

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easyload controlled atmosphere stunning

With the advantages of technology and vital industry experience, the Controlled

Atmosphere Stunning (CAS) system offers immense benefits over ‘traditional’ electric

stunning. It is widely anticipated that because of these benefits, the CAS system is

becoming the industry standard, with special emphasis on the benefits of the humane

slaughter of birds.

Users of the system claim that the techniques used consistently deliver significant benefits

in processing and product quality.

● Possible to achieve maturation in less than two hours, saving time and

overheads

● Improved meat quality - no blood spots in breast meat

● Better and more consistent meat colour

● Overcomes the necessity of double handling into maturation holding area,

eliminating shrinkage and reducing labour costs, by allowing the cut up

process to take place immediately upon exit from the air chiller

● Exceeds poultry welfare guidelines laid down by the Department for

Environment Food, Rural Affairs and the Farm Animal Welfare Council

● Hanging Operators are able to work in optimum conditions

● Comfortable lighting conditions can be used

● Avoids the need for electrical stimulation

● Controlled atmosphere stunned birds actually die eliminating recoveries and

consciousness

● Birds are easy to hang, producing no dust or noise

● Completely solves welfare issues of hanging live birds

● Substantial reduction in bleed out time

● Only system to operate on a scientifically approved nitrogen mixture

● System can work with any gas mixture as legislation permits

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The Easyload drawers are unloaded from the transportation modules and are

automatically lowered into the CAS system containing predominantly Nitrogen. The

drawers take less than 2 minutes to pass through the Nitrogen based system, and are

presented lifeless for the next part of the production process. In addition to improving

bird welfare, there are also significant benefits to the operators. In redesigning the hang

on line for the CAS system, the distance the operators need to reach can be greatly

reduced improving the ergonomics of the task and handling lifeless birds vastly improves

working conditions by reducing noise and dust problems.

how it works

N2Nitrogen is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere forming four fifths of the air. It’s

properties insure that it’s easily extractable and is ideal for any process application. The

element seemed so inert that Lavoisier named it ‘azote’, meaning ‘without life’. Nitrogen

gas is colourless, odourless, inert and inexpensive.

Fact FileName: Nitrogen

Symbol: N

Atomic Number: 7

Atomic Weight: 144.0067(2)gr

CAS Registry: ID 7727-37-9 Group number 15

Group name: Pnictogen

Period Number: 2

Block: p-block

Discovered: 1772 by Daniel Rutherford

Origin of Name: from the Greek words ‘nitron genes’ meaning ‘nitre’ and ‘forming’ and

the Latin word ‘nitrum’ (nitre is the common name for potassium nitrate

KNO#)

The Anglia Autoflow system uses a predominately nitrogen mixture. Using controlled

amounts of the mixture, the system has built in safety and control measures preventing

leakage and build ups of the gas. The system simply reduces oxygen from the chamber.

The used gas mixture is then carefully diffused back into the atmosphere, having

absolutely no environmental impact whatsoever.

● Inexpensive gas mixture

● Totally inert gas limiting health and safety concerns to an absolute minimum

● No environmental concerns

● Effective and efficient

● Avoids all welfare concerns

● Cuts operating costs significantly

● Highly abundant in the atmosphere

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the benefits of nitrogen

customer service and technical support

With an incredibly successful policy of continuous development and improvement in

place, on the complete range of the products it designs and manufactures, the Anglia

Autoflow Easyload system has continued to provide the highest quality of engineering

expertise alongside the challenging industry demands, expectations and opportunities.

Each system, whatever the requirements, is designed, manufactured, assembled and fully

tested at the Anglia Autoflow manufacturing facility before delivery. Installation is quick

and easy and involves the minimum of inconvenience and shut down time. The demands

for reliability and serviceability are well understood at Anglia Autoflow, as is the knowledge

that production has to continue.

All Anglia Autoflow products are designed and manufactured to the most stringent quality

assurance standards and procedures. As each product is critical to production, we

recognise that customer care and high quality of service are essential.

Servicing and technical support are paramount considerations in the installation,

commissioning and running of sophisticated production processes.

With the Anglia Autoflow design and manufacturing capabilities, each project is carefully

assessed according to your requirements before the proposals and solutions are put

forward including service and maintenance details. Our customers appreciate the

extensive services that Anglia Autoflow provides. We stress the importance of partnership

from out initial contact with every customer.

With a technical team that’s dedicated to excellence, every Easyload system is supplied

with a detailed service manual covering every element in the daily, weekly checking and

servicing requirements. All start up and shut down procedures as well as comprehensive

circuit drawings for both electrical and pneumatic circuits are also included.

Each system is supplied with a comprehensive spares kit, being also backed up by an

extensive in-house stock holding of all components for immediate despatch if necessary.

A comprehensive service package is also available if required, and has the advantage of

specially trained and experienced technicians being readily accessible. Because each

Easyload system is designed for function, coupled with the worldwide network of

Anglia Autoflow service agents, most components used within the system are readily

available throughout the world and can be easily sourced.

...we recognise that customer care and high quality of service are essential...

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technical module specification

Large Small SmallTurkey Chicken Chicken Chicken

3 Tier 4 Tier 4 Tier 5 Tier

Length 2438mm 2438mm 2438mm 2438mm

Width 1165mm 1165mm 1165mm 1165mm

Height 1339mm 1292mm 1152mm 1397mm

Drawers permodule 9 12 12 15

Headroom in drawer 355mm 255mm 220mm 220mm

Unladen weightof module complete 340kg 350kg 330kg 390kg

Live bird weight perdrawer 80kg 50kg 50kg 50kg

Typical livebird weightper module 720kg 600kg 600kg 750kg

Typical totalweight ofmodule & birds 1060kg 950kg 930kg 1140kg

Live bird weights given are average for a temperate climate and will vary inaccordance with local climatic conditions.

5 Tier modules - chicken

4 Tier module - chicken

3 Tier module - turkey

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where to find us

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Anglia Autoflow LtdWortham Ling

DissNorfolk

IP22 1SREngland

Tel: +44 (0) 1379 651031Fax: +44 (0) 1379 652832Email: sales@aaflow.com

Web: www.aaflow.com

Tel: +44 (0) 1379 651031Fax: +44 (0) 1379 652832Email: sales@aaflow.com

Web: www.aaflow.com

Easyload is a trademark of Anglia Autoflow Ltd. Anglia Autoflow operates a policy of continuous improvement and therefore some details may be subject to change. Every reasonable effort has been made by

Anglia Autoflow to ensure the accuracy of the information contained in this brochure, but the company accepts no responsibility for errors or omissions.All products sold are subject to the Anglia Autoflow standard terms and conditions of sale.

© March 2003

Anglia Autoflow LtdWortham Ling

DissNorfolk

IP22 1SREngland

Tel: +44 (0) 1379 651031Fax: +44 (0) 1379 652832Email: sales@aaflow.com

Web: www.aaflow.com