Danish seafood-processing equipment company Carsoe announced a strategic partnership with Industrikulde days after unveiling its new heading and gutting machine at Seafood Processing Global (SPG).
Carsoe Marketing Manager Julie Drustrup told SeafoodSource during the expo – which runs from 21 to 23 April in Barcelona, Spain – that the new machine has already generated a lot of interest in processing companies looking for a new solution.
Carsoe Product Sales Manager Rasmus Luca Kronborg told SeafoodSource the DNA of the new machine is based on the Mark 7, a longstanding product for the company.
“It’s something we have sold over 1,000 units of. It was first made 50 years ago by my grandfather actually,” Kronborg said.
Kronborg said the new machine, currently called Gutting Machine CS3063, was a direct result of the success of that machine and the requests of customers.
“What we were hearing from customers is they would always like to have a combined heading and gutting machine,” he said. “So, that’s why development began on this.”
Kronborg said Carsoe began developing it a year and a half ago, and it has recently been going through developmental testing. The machine they created for the show floor at SPG sold quickly and is heading to a vessel in Norway, Drustrup said.
Through its development, Carsoe engaged with its customers to make sure the new heading and gutting machine aligned with what they wanted. It fits into both new and existing facility or vessel layouts, and Carsoe said it supports precision yield optimization to reduce meat loss and make consistent head cuts.
Carsoe developed a new cutting mechanism for the head cuts and created it with easy cleaning in mind to minimize downtime.
The CS3063 is so new that it’s still technically being developed. The first machines that were purchased will start to be delivered to customers in Q1 2027, as they continue to run through tests on different sizes of fish. Currently, it is designed to process cod, pollock, and haddock.
Kronborg said the company has more in development that he can’t reveal yet and that as the company has evolved data tracking, it has become an ever-increasing part of the solutions Carsoe offers to its customers. Both real-time and historical data are increasingly important in the seafood processing world, and companies are seeing the value.
Drustrup said the company has done projects with processors that reveal just how behind some are when it comes to integrating data.
“We did a project on data tracking, and their factory managers just had small post-its with the temperatures in their pocket, and they’d go to the computer and type it in,” she said. “That’s a lot of manual labor and room for error, with automatic data tracking it helps a lot.”
That processor now has fully integrated data tracking, and they’re “very happy today,” she said.
Alongside the debut of its new heading and gutting machine, Carsoe announced a strategic partnership with Industrikulde to deliver more integrated processing solutions. Industrikulde is a producer of maritime refrigeration systems, and Carsoe said the new partnership will allow the two companies to create turnkey solutions for the seafood industry.
“Together with Carsoe, we align refrigeration and processing from the first sketch to commissioning,” Industrikulde CEO Torje Berger-Hanssen said. “That integration is how we deliver quality, reliability, and truly customized solutions for processors in Norway as well as globally.”
