AFS can hugely increase the output of a fish processing plant. Not only does it perform the work of dozens, it also does those jobs often considered the most difficult and tiresome. As far as we know, this is the only system of its kind in the world. Being a fully automatic freezing machine, it automatically pre-presses blocks before freezing, loads and unloads freezers, discharges frozen blocks, and washes, dries and stores freezing frames. The system can be used on all standard freezers, and it can be installed either as a whole, or in parts.
Automation is, of course, the keyword.
The AFS 4000, as the equipment is called, has already been set up in two of Iceland's largest freezing plants. The installation of the first, at a new plant in Neskaupstadur in the East Fjords, created a great deal of interest, especially when automation took over the loading and unloading of freezers. With constantly growing competition and production demands, new inventions such as these are quick to attract the attention of vigilant fish producers. The freezing frames each weigh 40 kg and the AFS 4000 can stack one every two seconds. It takes two men twenty minutes to stack 60 of these frames into freezers, a job considered one of the most difficult in processing.