High-speed portion cutter with preforming option
Achieve precision and efficiency in portioning with high-speed cutting and preforming capabilities, ensuring consistent and market-ready meat and cheese products across your production line.

Cuts and Forms Meat, Poultry, and Cheese
The TREIF FALCON evolution and evolution preformer from Marel revolutionize portion cutting and forming tasks for meat, poultry, and cheese processors. This equipment uses advanced scanning and calibration techniques to ensure high-speed, precise cuts, adapting to both bone-in and boneless materials. Ideal for producing beef steaks, chicken breast fillets, pork chops, and sliced cheese, it scans raw materials in four dimensions, calibrates cuts to desired specifications, and stabilizes products for consistent precision. Capable of handling up to 500 cuts per minute, it integrates into production lines with minimal manual oversight, reducing labor demands. Available with options for automated shaping, the preformer enhances product uniformity and marketability. The TREIF FALCON’s construction supports continuous, automatic operation, making it a robust solution for large-scale food processing facilities.
Benefits
- Enhances yield and product consistency with precise portion cutting.
- Reduces reliance on manual labor through seamless production line integration.
- Increases market value with automated forming for uniform product shapes.
- Enables high-speed operation with up to 500 cuts per minute.
- Optimizes process control with advanced scanning and calibration features.
- Applications
- Red meat,Pork,Cheese,Poultry
- End products
- Chicken breast fillets,Diced meat portions,Pork chops,Boneless chicken pieces,Pork tenderloin slices,Beef steaks,Sliced cheese,Cheese blocks
- Steps before
- Material Scanning,Gripping and Stabilization
- Steps after
- Sorting,Weighing,Packing,Labeling,Quality Checking
- Input ingredients
- bone-in red meat,boneless red meat,poultry,pork,cheese,raw material
- Output ingredients
- portion cut products,uniform thickness products,improved market value products,bone-in cuts,boneless cuts,shaped products
- Market info
- Marel is known for its advanced food processing equipment, specializing in systems and services for poultry, meat, and fish industries. It is recognized for innovation, quality, and improving processing efficiency and sustainability.
- Max. cuts per minute
- 500
- Product cross section (Width)
- 260 mm (10") / 350 mm (14")
- Product cross section (Height)
- 180 mm (7")
- Max. infeed length (gripped)
- 800 mm (32") / 700 mm (28")
- Housing dimensions (Length)
- 4,422 mm (174") with pre-belt / 6,100 mm (240") with check weigher and sorting stations
- Housing dimensions (Width)
- 1,767 mm (70") with pre-belt / 1,353 mm (53") with check weigher and sorting stations
- Housing dimensions (Height)
- 2,522 mm (99") with pre-belt / 2,600 mm (102") with check weigher and sorting stations
- Connecting load
- 10.3 kW (without check weigher) / 11.3 kW,17 kW (with check weigher)
- Application temperature
- Down to -4°C (24.5°F)
- Compatible materials
- Beef,pork,veal
- Weight
- Approx. 1,598 kg (3,503 lbs) / Approx. 2,200 kg (4,850 lbs)
- Automation level
- High-speed precision,automatic cut calibration
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Continuous
- Integration
- Seamless integration into processing lines
- Cleaning method
- Manual or on request
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Machine footprint
- Length
- Machine dimensions with check weigher and sorting stations
- Length
- Max. infeed length gripped
- 800 mm (32")
- Max. product cross section without check weigher
- W
- Max. product cross section with check weigher
- W
- Discharge method
- Automatic cut calibration
- Control panel type
- Touchscreen interface
- Integration possibilities
- Seamless processing line integration
- Cut adjustment
- Automatic cut calibration
- Gripper adjustment
- Adjustable gripper and down-holder