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Hermasa Canning Technology, S.A.

Hermasa Canning Technology, S.A.

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Throughout the history of Hermasa, different milestones have been reached that have marked different periods in canning production, creating technological tendencies that have been exported worldwide.

Hermasa is one of the foundations on which the county of Vigo lies as the leading world capital in the fish canning industry. Dozens of thousands of people worked in the manufacture of the first cans, mainly sardines. This was the environment of economic euphoria and the first technological rudiments on which the Rodríguez brothers began to work, finding Vigo the ideal place to stimulate their inventiveness.

1975

In 1975, Hermasa presented the first continuous sardine cooker, the ‘Flash-Cooker’. This model cooked the canned sardine with direct steam using the same process that would follow for oiling and closing. This was followed by a more advanced variation, HRG-V, with greater capacity and versatility and different packages.

The machines patented in the first decades aimed to reduce maintenance and increase the degree of automation. To do so, the pioneers of Hermasa imported knowledge from countries with a long tradition of industrial machinery –France and Germany – and launched a totally new business from Spain, adapted to the manufacture of preserves. It was a long process of learning and specialisation.

1984

In 1984, canners received ‘Flash Pack’, an innovative, sardine automatic packing machine that cut, gutted and packaged the product in a continuous cycle.

This was the first giant technological leap related to a drastic reduction in costs for companies by reducing the number of employees required to handle a machine that also multiplied its productivity.

This advance represented a major step forward in the competitive relations established between the world’s leading manufacturers. This technological leap to the sector was at the same level as other major production sectors operating on a global scale, treating the planet as a huge, single market. Hermasa places its equipment on the five continents at the service of companies that calculate which is the best location for their factories, bearing in mind all of the production costs. The technological investment was so crucial to productivity that relocation to countries outside Europe were avoided in that decade. Even today, having passed the first decade of the 21st century, 137 machines of this type are in operation in 52 counties worldwide, which is an excellent example of the visionary character of the technology designed by Hermasa.

1997

In the same period, the large canning manufacturers significantly increased the demand for tuna for its industrial processing. Hermasa surprised factories with ‘Tunivac’, developed in collaboration with scientists from the Institute of Marine Research in Vigo. On this occasion, it was a tuna cooking cooker with vacuum cooling.

Ten years later, in 1997, Hermasa presented the first prototype of the legendary Tunipack, the machine that made manufacturers of tuna preserves from all over the world point to Hermasa as the technological reference to dramatically increase production in less space and with less personnel. Tunipack is one of our company’s R&D&I highlights, a tuna canning machine with unique features that fascinated visitors at that year’s World Fishing Exhibition. Its marketing began in 2001 and it broke all of the expectations of the Hermasa technicians, going to factories all over the planet. Even today –with models that have been evolved from the initial pattern- Tunipack continues to be the example to follow in tuna canning.

Today

21st century Hermasa continues researching and presenting improvements that revolutionise our clients’ factories.

Usually, we increase production or make it more efficient, but sometimes we radically change the way of doing things. This is the case of the surprising Tunascan, an automatic tuna classification system. It is the world’s first scanner that classifies tuna by species, size and fish quality. Without the help of operators, it can analyse and stow 15 tonnes an hour.

Vision and Values

To be a world reference in the development of differentiating technological solutions, fostering the creation of value in preserved fish as a final product, seeking workers, customers and collaborators who feel proud.
Innovation

We are paying attention, anticipating and providing ideas and solutions that set us apart.

Honesty

We are behaviour models, sincere and brave.

Excellence

We seek to be the best.

Commitment

We fulfil our promises and are aware of the importance of what we do.

The story of two entrepreneurs who created more than a company in the 1970’s; they created a whole new sector: automation to produce cans.

Hermasa is one of the foundations on which the province of Vigo lies as the leading world capital in the fish canning industry. Back then, dozens of thousands of people worked in the manufacture of the first cans, mainly sardines. This was the environment of economic euphoria and the first technological rudiments on which the Rodríguez brothers began to work, finding Vigo the ideal place to stimulate their inventiveness.

It is in Hermasa where they started to put their ideas and designs into practice to increase the productivity of the Galician canning factories, which started to diversify and sell to markets on the five continents. And it was in the first, small, family-run factory in Vigo –surrounded by canners, shipyards and an immense fresh fish market- where the technological principles of automation and mass production that are used today by the creators of canning equipment all over the planet were born. Hermasa has been and is the technological reference.

Hermasa has been and is the technological reference in the production of machinery for canning, which is why the Hermasa brand is present in over 65 countries.

In just over forty years of life, the Galician brand has created a new industrial sector – that of specialised machinery for fish canning- which has accompanied manufacturers in their worldwide expansion. When conserve sellers identified a new market niche, Hermasa was one step ahead and created a machine for its processing and industrial production.

Our company has received several prizes in Europe for its technological innovation and it participates as a guest at world conferences of the canning sector all over the world, which reflects its importance as a driving force of the industry.

Since it was set up, Hermasa has registered over 70 trademarks and patents, which have surprised the canning market throughout different moments of its history. Nowadays, the trademarks under which the company sells its equipment are: Hermasa®, Tunipack®, Flash-Pack®, Tunivac®, V-Filler® and HCT®. There are currently ten valid patents.

In 2006, Hermasa built its new headquarters on the Vigo Technology Park. The facilities span an area of 5,500 square metres on which the department for the continuous transfer of knowledge and a permanently connected innovation laboratory are located, as the brand’s priority.

Hermasa could only have worked its way to the top in Vigo. Our company is the result of an entrepreneurial and technological character, but it is also the result of a natural and economic environment that dates back more than two thousand years. In this corner of the European continent, on the ocean’s edge, Nature created some estuaries sheltered from the Atlantic Ocean in which immense sardine fishing grounds flourished. The Castrexos, pre-Roman populations, had already developed a small fishing industry in the 2nd century B.C.

In the first Roman settlements of what is today the city of Vigo, in the 1st century, industrial sites were established devoted to the preservation of fish using the salting process, laying the bases of a culture that lives on until the present day. This privileged place became home to the fishing port of Vigo, which is the most important in Europe today, with 15,000 people working within its perimeters. Its four docks, and five warehouses move more than 800,000 tonnes of marine species a year. A portion of this activity is devoted to the canning industry in Galicia. This activity is joined by mussel cultivation in the estuaries, which make Spain the main producer of mussels in Europe.

The number of synergies developed in such a small space has led to such high competition that only through ongoing technological investment is t possible to survive in the canning sector. In Vigo, companies have a private cutting edge technology centre created in the middle of the 20th century to research all of the technology related to food from the sea and aquaculture. Each year, more than 70 R&D projects emerge from this institution. On the Galician coast, there is the highest concentration of scientific institutions related to the sea, from the exclusive Faculty of Marine Science to the numerous Marine Biology and Oceanography Research Centres that have been set up by the Spanish and the regional governments. It is worth remembering that, for example, the best oceanographic research vessels are still being built in the Vigo estuary, representing the different nations with maritime interests.

All of this information highlights the level of demand in which Hermasa has evolved for decades, becoming the reference for all brands worldwide seeking to open a factory somewhere on the planet. Today, most of these brands have factories on the world’s coasts to process ‘in situ’ the raw materials in the new fishing grounds. Hermasa has accompanied all of these major brands in their international expansion for more than half a century. We have now reached 65 countries. Is it possible to have more or better experience?

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