It's all in the hand

Jan Soderlind, managing director of Trio FTC Sweden and an important industry innovator, talks to Rachel Mutter about the design process and the scope of hand-held, automated equipment in the seafood industry

How long have you been in the seafood industry and what is your background (in this industry or otherwise)?

I started FTC on the 1st of September 1978, after I had finished my job as production and technical manager at a meat deboning company. I had designed the production line [at the deboning company] ö it had a line for hanging deboned carcasses, a handling capacity of 300 units per day, and it finally cut down the meat into bone free pieces and packaged it in vacuum packages.

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