A New Whitefish Skinner To Meet Modern Processing Needs

A new whitefish skinner to meet modern processing needs

There are three things that reveal how the Curio Skinner is designed differently to other skinners, safety, accessibility, and reliability.

The new Curio Skinner ticks all the standard needs of a mechanical skinning machine. It’s small footprint in a compact design, makes it simple to fit into current plant layouts. And it provides high-quality skinning, gentle raw material handling to keep value and strong yields on fresh white fish skinning.

Where the Curio Skinner differs is safety, accessibility, and reliability. All the key elements needed by modern fish processors faced with high overheads, and increasing global regulatory requirements.

The Curio Skinner is built with safety as a core priority. All modern industry safety standards and features are in place to ensure your team is safe at every moment, during operation, cleaning, and maintenance.

Accessibility is key to the thorough cleaning of fish processing equipment that ensures hygiene standards are met, and safe products are being made. The new Curio Skinner has rethought traditional design to make all parts of the machine more accessible. Maintaining the highest hygiene standards is easier, and more efficient thanks to:

• Wide openings
• Conveyor belts fold in to make cleaning and maintenance access easy
• Chamfered steel surfaces to prevent residue from water, dirt, or cleaning agents collecting
• Sealed panels to prevent dirt entering the machine housing
• Solid construction to handle the harsh washdown environment of a busy fish processing facility

Maintenance and repairs are quicker; when machines are accessible; mechanics and service teams being able to get to key components without difficulty, means lines can be up and running faster.

For four months of the 2026 season, the Curio Skinner was in the field, on a trial, test, and development visit with a fish processor in Iceland. When the season ended, the Curio Skinner came back to JBT Marel headquarters to be taken apart and checked for wear and tear, a part of the development processes that ensures our equipment is ready for the real world when released.

What happened when our engineers opened the Curio Skinner after its site visit? “Now that it’s come back after those four months, and we don’t have to do anything. It just looks like new!” Axel Pétur Ásgeirsson, Senior Specialist of Global Product at JBT Marel. “It means, for processors, they have a reliable skinning machine and can expect less downtime.”

This reliability was proof that the decision to reexamine our white fish skinners for today’s needs was a good one. The Curio Skinner offers white fish processors everything they need in a mechanical skinner to address modern demands and challenges: low cost of ownership, compact, gentle handling, good yields, accessible, safe, hygienic, and robust.

The new Curio Skinner fills a gap in our white fish processing portfolio, with the knowledge and reach to meet all your processing needs from equipment, software and service, JBT Marel has your back.

If you’re ready to talk to an expert who understands your industry, contact our JBT Marel Fish experts today.