The Machine
A machine that Nexeed produces is the Cimbria De-Awner Type Delta 184. It is a processing machine mainly used for seed grain, malting barley and for a large variety of other kinds of seeds. This Cimbria De-Awner machine costs about twelve thousand Canadian dollars on average, without shipping costs (Metcalfe, 2014). The Cimbria De-Awner runs on an electric motor with sizes varying from 5.5-18.5 KW, is made out of steel and comes equipped with an agitator. The machine is around 228 kg and the dimensions are 661mm by 1520mm by 994mm with all measurements including the frame and the motor. The capacity is 30-60 tons/hour for pre-cleaning, 5-20 tons/hour of seed grain and 10-25 tons/hour for malting barley (Nexeed, 2014). There are many different inputs that could be considered for this machine like cereals, pulses, peanuts, green coffee, rice and more (Cimbria, 2014). The only machinery required to run this De-Awner is the De-Awner itself as well as a suitable source of electricity to run the electric powered motor. There is not much labour required for this machine as it does most of the work itself. Workers would be employed to these machines to mainly add material to them and collect the product that is expelled out of the machine.
The De-Awner machine de-awns seed, breaks seed clusters and polishes them as well. How does it do that? The way this machine works is it first the grains or seeds are put in, then, the machines steel beaters rotate at a very high speed through the inputted material, decomposing and polishing it. The machine can control the degree of treatment of the seed with the discharge shutter and by changing the revolutions per minute to be precise for the material inputted. With the machine’s advanced technology, it greatly improves bushel weight with help from the gentility of the steel beaters (Nexeed, 2014).