SHS Light Guide: High-Performance Lighting for Meat Processing

Introduction

The agri-food industry, particularly meat processing, presents a highly demanding environment for equipment and lighting. It requires solutions that can withstand intensive cleaning, vibrations, and extreme temperatures. Sammode, a specialist in lighting for difficult environments, offers durable, robust, and hygienic lighting systems designed to ensure safety and optimal visibility on site.

Sammode Guarantee: Sammode provides long-lasting solutions with a guarantee of up to 8 years of 24/7 operation, reflecting their commitment to reliability and durability.

Key Features and Benefits

• Hermetically Sealed [IP68/IP69K]: Designed to withstand water ingress, offering IP68 protection up to 4 meters depth and IP69K resistance to high-pressure cleaning.
• Resistance to Chemical Attacks and Corrosion: Constructed with Stainless Steel 304L and 316L parts, and a unique polycarbonate/PMMA co-extruded body for superior chemical resistance and mechanical strength (IK10).
• Shock and Vibration Resistance: Engineered to resist shocks and vibrations, conforming to vibration standard IEC 60068-2-6.
• Comfort and Optical Performance: Features high-performance LED integration with IRC > 80 and a service life of up to 70,000 hours (L80/B50). Optimized optics ensure quality lighting levels and reduce user fatigue.
• Hygiene and Safety Standards: Products comply with IFS/BRC hygiene and safety standards, ensuring total cleanability, no risk of broken glass, and quality lighting for visual comfort.
• Sustainable and Maintainable: Designed with maintainable and interchangeable components, industrial electronic circuits, and a mechanical design resistant to vibrations, ensuring long-term usability and reduced environmental impact.
• Optimised Total Cost of Ownership: Features evolving modular design, sustainable and maintainable solutions, and reduced installation and maintenance costs.

Application Areas and Solutions

Sammode offers tailored lighting solutions for various zones within meat processing facilities:

Slaughter and Conditioning Areas

These are the most challenging areas, subject to intensive cleaning, corrosive detergents, vibrations, shocks, and high temperatures. Sammode's luminaires, such as the Cugnot and Coulomb models, feature a robust construction system with axial screw tightening and polycarbonate/methacrylate housing, providing high resistance to shocks, vibrations, and intensive cleaning, meeting IK10 standards.

Image Description: A slaughterhouse scene with carcasses hanging for processing.

Workshops and Production Areas

Activities like cutting, processing, and preparation require optimal safety and lighting quality. Sammode's solutions, including Fresnel, Pascal, Calmette, and Coulomb luminaires, provide high-quality lighting (IRC > 80) with adapted optics to prevent glare and user fatigue. They are available in 5000 K for quality control.

Image Description: A production line for packaging ham, showing workers and machinery. Diagrams of Fresnel, Pascal, Calmette, and Coulomb luminaires are also shown.

Tunnel Freezers and Cold Stores

For freezing tunnels and low to very low temperature storage (down to -40°C), Sammode offers Bering and Barents luminaires. These are designed to withstand wide temperature variations, ensuring long-lasting performance with limited maintenance. The Barents model, with its intensive optics and high lumen flux, is ideal for lighting great heights in cold environments.

Image Description: Images of cold storage facilities, including racks and trolleys, and a freezing tunnel. Diagrams of Barents, Bering, and Maxwell BT luminaires are also shown.

Cooking Areas

In high-temperature areas like cooking, ready meals, and cured meats (up to +70°C), luminaires face conditions that impact LED lifetime. Sammode provides impervious LED solutions up to +70°C, with advanced thermal management and component selection ensuring a minimum lifetime of 50,000 hours (L80/B50).

Image Description: Chicken meat products on a conveyor belt in a cooking area. Diagrams of Joule, Rankine, and Cugnot luminaires are also shown.

Emergency Lighting

Sammode offers emergency lighting solutions including standalone blocks (Maxwell S1H for 1-hour rescue, Maxwell S3H for 3-hour rescue) and central source options (Maxwell LSC). The Maxwell BT is suitable for low-temperature emergency lighting.

Selection Guide

Sammode Services

Sammode acts as an expert partner throughout your lighting project, from initial consultation to final implementation:

• Diagnosis and Requirements: On-site analysis to select the most suitable models. [Diagnosis]
• Lighting Studies: Optimisation of installation for lighting levels, comfort, and layout. [Lighting Studies]
• Control Systems: Energy management solutions for better control and reduced energy bills. [Control Systems]
• Development of Special Products: Tailoring technical solutions to meet specific needs. [Special Products]
• On-site Testing and Support: Project follow-up and verification of requirements. [On-site Support]

For over 90 years, the largest industrial groups have entrusted Sammode with the task of illuminating their installations. Choosing Sammode means choosing a trusted partner to bring your project to a successful conclusion with complete peace of mind.

Sammode Alliance: SHS Lighting

Sammode, Hoffmeister, and Sill have formed SHS Lighting, a European specialist in technical lighting. This alliance combines decades of expertise, innovation, and excellence, setting high standards for precision, performance, reliability, and long-term robustness.

Contact Information:

• Sammode Head Office France: 24, rue des Amandiers F-75020 Paris. T +33(0) 1 43 14 84 90. info@sammode.com
• Hoffmeister Head Office Germany: Gewerbering 28-32 D-58579 Schalksmühle. T +49 (0) 23 55 50 41 400. mail@hoffmeister.de
• Websites: sammode.com, studio.sammode.com, hoffmeister.de, sill-lighting.com
• Social Media: @sammode.lighting, @hoffmeister.lighting, @sill.lighting

References

The document lists numerous companies as references across Australia and France, including Baiada Poultry, Bigard, Charal, Tönnies Holding, and Van Drie Group.

Photo credits: ©sergeyryzhov, ©Cyrille Dubreuil