Conserve & Cool

Our ‘CoCo’ system for conserving and cooling.

Having langoustines cooled and preserved automatically, reducing labour intensity on board a fishing vessel. Fishing vessels ‘MDV-2’ and ‘UK-124’ faced this challenge, but VCU Robotics found a solution! ‘CoCo’ was born, short for Conserve & Cool.

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Langoustines (Norwegian lobsters)

Langoustines (Norwegian lobsters) are preserved and transported to the next unit and cooled there, before being transported further.

Langoustine manual sorting and packaging aboard a fishing vessel is a tremendously labour-intensive process. By automating the preservation and cooling process, the labour intensity on board has been reduced. After sorting, the langoustines are automatically preserved and then transported to the refrigeration unit for cooling. Get in touch to receive our CoCo brochure!

Related Projects

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Hygienic Depalletizer / an automation solution

4 November 2024

Engineering an six-axis robot for the food industry. An hygienic depalletizer for Visscher Seafood, a salmon producer.

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PrecisionPack / a pick-and-place system for salmon processing

7 June 2024

In PrecisionPack, VCU Robotics is developing an hygienic pick-and-place system for the salmon processing industry.

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Pick-and-place system for frozen fillets

27 August 2024

In the Robotics & Frozen fillets project, VCU Robotics developed a pick-and-place machine for frozen plaice fillets.

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IPC CoCo – Conserve and Cool

27 August 2024

In this project, a preserving and cooling system for langoustines (Norwegian lobster) was developed for the UK-124 and MDV-2.

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Sorting plaice on board / Pick&Place MDV-1

27 August 2024

In the Fishion & Robotics project, an advanced sorting line was developed in collaboration  with Rapid Engineering.

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Sorting plaice on board / Grader UK150

27 August 2024

On board the fishing vessel UK150 is a sorting line/grader, which recognizes the plaice and sorts them by weight.

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DeltaPlaice – an automation solution for flatfish

27 August 2024

VCU Robotics, in cooperation with several fish processors from Urk, is developing pick-and-place solutions for flatfish processing.

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Optifish – automating fishing vessels

27 August 2024

OptiFish is a pioneering Horizon-Europe project for which VCU Robotics is developing a robotics system.