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Bord Bia is an Irish state agency who role it is to bring Ireland’s outstanding food, drink and horticulture produce to the world, thus enabling the growth and sustainability of producers.

Bord Bia is also responsible for the development and operation of Quality Assurance and Sustainability programmes across the Irish food industry, which provide proof to customers of these high standards.

In addition to these programmes, Bord Bia supports the Irish food and drink industry across four key areas, as follows:

1. Reputation: Bord Bia develops marketing campaigns at home and abroad to support and enhance the reputation of Irish food, drink and horticulture.

2. Insight: Bord Bia provides market and consumer insight and intelligence to support the growth of the Irish food, drink and horticulture industry.

3. Growth: Bord Bia helps to build the capability of businesses to evaluate, plan and deliver growth in priority markets.

4. Talent: Bord Bia’s Talent Academy equips graduates with the skills necessary to drive the growth of the Irish food, drink and horticulture industry.

With pioneering, award-winning technology Synergy Grill is revolutionising the hospitality industry thanks to its high power, low energy consumption grills, which enable chefs to prepare food faster at less than half the energy costs. At Synergy Grill Technology, the objective has always been, and remains, to help operators and chefs take their grilling to the next level and deliver a better quality of food without compromise, in an environmentally responsible way. Synergy Grill’s innovative patented technology allows chefs to deliver the very best food textures and tastes thanks to Synergy’s unique process whereby fat molecules are atomised, meaning moisture penetrates back into the food to ensure a more succulent food product, whilst providing perfect char-marks, texture and taste. The Synergy Grill revolves around a patented gas burner which delivers focused and exceptionally high heat using a natural ceramic heat bed which atomises the fat so there’s no fat tray for chefs to clean and no risk of irresponsible disposal of fatty waste

The Synergy ST900 Trilogy Grills that are used in the World Steak Challenge competition, come with the most up-to-date technology SMART controllers which place your grill onto a rapid heat up stage for 30 minutes to allow the grill to reach the cooking temperature faster, after which point it will automatically adjust to your desired set temperature. The tactile buttons allow you to control the unit in 1 degree Celsius increments giving you full control over your cooking experience. Discover more here - synergygrill.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Synergy-Grill-Technology-Animation-Small.mp4.

The company factory, based in Cambridgeshire, UK, now benefits from significant global recognition, with sales to Australasia, America, the Middle East, Europe, and South Africa.

Whether it is steaks, cutlets, roulades, chops, grill sticks or kebabs – customers throughout the world portion their meat efficiently, economically, hygienically and reliably with our powerful portioning solutions. In both the retail trade and catering. Day after day and without compromise.

TVI have specialised in meat portioning machines since being founded in 2004 and have since become the leading manufacturer of meat portioning machines and complete portioning lines. The broad portfolio compromises efficient and needs-based solutions for tempering, freezing, pressing, portioning, and automating, as well as for winging grill sticks and producing kebab skewers. These high-tech TVI systems range from tempering of the initial product, right through to virtually every type of portioning, and from manual or automatic loading into trays, with subsequent weight checking, right up to transferring the finished portions to the packing machine.

The products and solutions provided by TVI have been proven countless times in practice, and they always remain innovative.
Fast forward to today, and even more diverse opportunities than ever before are being opened up under the roof of the MULTIVAC Group. Part of the MULTIVAC Group, TVI’s customers benefit from their global Sales and Service network as well as from its comprehensive expertise in automation and packaging lines.

The MULTIVAC portfolio includes various packaging technologies, labelling and quality control systems as well as automation solutions, and the TVI product range is rounded off by components from the areas of portioning, processing, and bakery equipment, upstream of the packaging process. Thanks to the comprehensive line skills, all modules can be integrated into holistic solutions and guarantee high operating and process reliability as well as high levels of efficiency.

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Welcome to Vlees & Co, the steakhouse of Amsterdam, Arnhem and Nijmegen! Vlees & Co has existed in Arnhem since 2015 and arose from the need to make the very best meat accessible to a large group of enthusiasts.