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POSTHARVEST SOLUTIONS

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Introduction
Tong Engineering has been a prominent player in the potato and vegetable handling industry since 1930, offering custom-built machinery for efficient and gentle crop handling. With a global reach in over 50 countries, the company emphasizes quality, consistency, and profitability for growers.
Key Products and Features
  • Caretaker Mobile Grader: Features gentle grading with multi-camera monitoring, auto-touch HMI control, and energy-efficient blue inverter technology.
  • FieldLoad PRO: Provides versatile in-field cleaning and loading with a high-capacity hopper and a super-silent onboard generator.
  • Fieldloader: Designed for in-field and multi-site cleaning, offering gentle trailer loading and compact transport design.
  • Storemaker: A mobile hopper cleaner with the EasyClean separator for effective soil and debris removal.
  • EasyClean Separator: Offers superior crop cleaning with inverter direct drive motors and easy operation via auto-touch HMI control.
Advanced Control Systems
Tong's machinery includes advanced control systems like the Pro-Series interface and auto-touch HMI, providing real-time notifications, maintenance scheduling, and continuous reporting for optimal performance.
Grading Solutions
  • EasyGrade Screen Modules: Configurable for accurate and gentle grading across various crops.
  • Lift Roller Grader: Offers flexible grading with adjustable grade bands and robust stainless steel rollers.
Conclusion
Tong Engineering remains at the forefront of agricultural machinery innovation, enhancing efficiency, reducing costs, and improving crop handling quality through advanced technology and customer-specific solutions.
EasyLoad System
Available in two models with belt widths of 600mm or 900mm, featuring a 'safedown' attachment for gentle loading into bulker lorries, and extendable to 14.1m.
Hoppers
Constructed with heavy-duty steel and chain, featuring rubber-lined infeed sections for gentle handling, and custom-built for various throughputs.
Mobile Elevators
Available in lengths from 3m to 12m with belt widths of 600mm and 900mm, featuring heavy-duty rubber belts and manual or hydraulic lift options.
EasyFill Box Fillers
Available in Mini, Midi, Maxi, and Mega models, these fillers use microprocessors and crop sensors for automatic operation, designed for gentle and even box filling.
UniFill Big Bag & Box Filler
Handles up to 18 tons per hour with a twin elevator system for gentle handling.
JetFill Big Bag Filler
Designed for high-capacity filling of bags up to 1200kg, offering gentle handling with rising bag platforms.
Stone & Clod Separator
Separates stones and clods using a rotating clod roller and reversible waste conveyor.
Dry Brusher
Uses rotating brush shafts to clean crops like potatoes and onions, available in various widths.
Box Tippers
The Revolver box tipper uses a forward rolling motion for gentle emptying, while the Side Eject tipper offers continuous load/unload cycles.
Weighers
Offers a range of vegetable weighing machines for bags and trays from 12.5kg to 50kg.
Skips & Bins
Self Tip Skips and Big Bag Bins provide solutions for waste collection and big bag filling, featuring automatic tipping and manual handling options.
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POSTHARVEST SOLUTIONS Designed with you in mind

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From concept through design and manufacture, to installation and after sales support, Tong specialises in producing technically advanced, custom built machinery for grading, washing and handling a wide range of crop in the most efficient and gentle way. PROVIDING A WORLD CLASS SERVICE TO THE POTATO & VEGETABLE INDUSTRY SINCE 1930 With engineering roots dating back to 1930, Tong Engineering is celebrating over 90 years of experience in manufacturing robust and reliable handling equipment, from single machines to full bespoke systems. As a family-run business, now in its fourth generation with...

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Tong has unrivalled experience in designing and building the most gentle, efficient and advanced mobile grading machine on the market. Built to last, with the latest technical advancements and intelligent controls, the Caretaker ensures ultimate grading efficiency and productivity. Tong’s unique and intelligent Pro-Series control interface can be specified as part of the popular auto-touch HMI control system, offering a number of advanced and highly-proactive features that have been designed to ensure ease of control, minimal downtime and the very best performance. Smart features that make all...

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With a wealth of options, the FieldLoad PRO stands out from the crowd. Expertly designed, the FieldLoad PRO can be specified to ensure ultimate performance and minimal downtime, whatever the weather. Advanced options that make all the difference FULLY TRANSPORTABLE IN UNDER 10 MINUTES Maximum performance with minimal set-up time for complete transportability. > Insulated Inspection Cabin Spacious 4-man inspection area with optional insulated cabin. > Advanced Touch-Screen Remote Control Bulker loading made simple with intuitive touch-screen remote control. > Auto-Touch HMI Machine Control Instant...

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Clean the load, hit the road The newly designed Fieldloader offers all the efficiencies and savings of Tong’s flagship grader, the Caretaker, with the added benefit of facilitating in-field and multi-site cleaning and inspection straight from the harvester and directly loading into bulker lorries for onward travel and processing. Compact cleaning, whenever & wherever you need it Unrivalled cleaning performance Fully mobile on one chassis Fully mobile, the Tong Storemaker is a new generation hopper cleaner, perfect for cleaning a wide variety of crop prior to storage or loading. Built to offer...

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Tong’s range of cleaners offers an advanced and reliable solution for all crop cleaning solutions. Crop Cleaning at its Best Tong’s coil and star cleaning units can be specified with a choice of fixed or adjustable shafts, in a 4, 6 or 8 row configuration, and in standard widths from 0.6m to 2.4m wide. COIL CLEANER Unrivalled cleaning in all conditions The Tong EasyClean separator offers truly unmatched crop cleaning performance and control. With inverter direct drive motors on every shaft, the EasyClean is powered by Tong’s all electric Blue-Inverter Technology for the very best energy efficiency,...

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Single Grading Units... to complete Grading Lines Tong’s industry leading EasyGrade screen modules are configurable in any length or combination of your choice, offering a grading solution for every crop sizing and throughput requirement. With a standard length of 1.6m, Tong’s single EasyGrade screens are manufactured to suit a wide range of crop from potatoes and onions to brussel sprouts and bulbs. Tong’s EasyGrade extended screen modules are 300mm longer than the standard model, a total screen length of 1.9m. The additional length allows for even better separation of tubers in particularly...

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Adjustable grading that suits you Flexible in its use for a wide range of crops including potatoes, carrots, onions, parsnips, brussel sprouts, celeriac, swedes and bulbs, the Tong Lift Roller Grader is manufactured based on customer grade band requirements and crop type, with the option of adjusting grade band settings to suit different crop varieties and sizes. Often a choice of growers or packers handling long shaped product, the Lift Roller Grader offers accurate grading with throughputs ranging from 5 to 40 tons per hour. Smart features that make the grade Robust stainless steel rollers...

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MOBILE ELEVATORS Tong manufactures a range of mobile elevators suitable for gently handling a wide variety of crop; making transport and loading much quicker, easier and flexible. MOBILE ELEVATOR – 75L Robust Construction Tong hoppers feature a heavy duty steel gauge design, consisting of chain and lathe construction. With heavy duty 4” pitch chains as standard and dual driven drive shafts, Tong hoppers wider than 1800mm are also constructed with a central runner fitted to the hopper chassis, offering additional robust support to the hopper lathes. Tong mobile elevators are available in standard...

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The Market’s Leading Box Filler Gentle. Robust. Efficient. Reliable. EasyFill box fillers are available in a range of models including Mini, Midi, Maxi and Mega based on the size of your box and tonnage requirements. Fully automatic operation via a micro processor and crop sensors, the EasyFill gently fills boxes by reaching deep into and traversing over the box for an evenly filled box everytime. EasyFill twin box fillers have made Tong the number one in box handling machinery. The machine’s unique Doorstop belt offers the gentlest handling of crop, with rubber fingers that gently hold crop...

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Key Features Gentle Handling Gentle handling with rising bag platforms to automatically lift and subsequently lower the bag to and from the feed conveyor for minimal drop and the gentlest handling. Optimum Safety For ultimate safety, PVC safety curtains are fitted as standard to cover the area under the platform to prevent access whilst in operation. > Fully automatic, micro processor control via probes The JetFill big bag filler is a high capacity machine for the efficient filling of bags up to 1200kg capacity, designed with throughput and careful handling in mind. Versatile Filler for Big Bags...

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