Abattoir designed
for flow-line handling
HONG KONG Government has spent some HK$55 million on the con- struction of two new abattoirs to replace the colony's old slaughtering facilities which were old-fashioned and inadequate. One, at Kennedy Town, was opened last year and the other, at Cheung Sha Wan, Kowloon, will be in operation shortly.
Both are built on reclaimed water- front sites and are similar in design, consisting of lairage, slaughterhouse and refrigeration blocks linked at vari- ous levels by bridges and descenders. There are also minor buildings at each abattoir housing an animal mortuary and incinerator.
HONG KONG GOVERNMENT
HAL WILLIAMS & CO.
DOUGLAS-ROWNSON LTD.
owners
architects and consulting engineers slaughtering, dressing and refrigeration plant
producing countries of the world, with slaughtering and dressing lines on the upper floors so that parts removed from the carcases can descend by chute to appropriate ventilated hand- ling departments on the lower floors. Substantial savings in site area and labour requirements are possible with this arrangement and, with the im- mediate separation of unclean materials from the meat, hygiene is greatly improved.
The two centres are specially de- signed to suit the requirements of the local meat trade and particular atten- tion has been given to providing an unusually large amount of accom- modation for pigs and cattle in addi- tion to the quarantine lairages. Pigs are handled on a fully mechanised a fully mechanised 'line'system and the cattle lines, where smaller numbers are concerned, are partially mechanised.
The abattoirs are of the multi-floor type as now used in the principal meat
The normal daily output of each
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Lairage block (left) and bridge connections to administration unit
Far East BUILDER, February 1969
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