Cleaner, more durable and bacterially superior.

The SOFR System is more durable than rubber fingers, and can be cleaned much more efficiently and easily. Anyone with experience in the poultry processing industry understands how traditional rubber and synthetic rubber fingers deteriorate with use, while harboring bacteria in the millions of minute cracks and other insults to this naturally porous material. The non-porous nature of Dupont TYNEX filament is virtually impervious to harsh cleaning chemicals and does not deteriorate in the way that rubber fingers do.

While operating at typical processing speeds of 140 to 180 birds per minute, the SOFR System has proven itself capable of outperforming and outlasting rubber fingers, without leaving the deteriorated rubber by-products behind.

The SOFR System’s soft touch improves yield.

The Patented SOFR System literally and uniquely wraps and pulls the feathers from the epidermis of the poultry. This defeathering technique, while much more efficient in the defeathering process, eliminates the need to strike the carcass with excessive force. Further, typical installations allow for picking machines to be substantially “backed off” which creates an even softer approach to defeathering. Greater yield is accomplished due to increased fat retention; substantially less tearing of the outer epidermis; reduced barking and bruising and generally an overall prettier bird.

 

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What is the SOFR System?

The SOFR System, developed by Conaway Development Industries, Inc., in association with Dupont Company, was developed in response to the poultry industry’s need to defeather poultry more efficiently and less aggressively, while at the same time eliminating the harmful byproducts left behind by traditional rubber picking fingers.