The Provisur PowerMax3500 slicing system has a standard 6- x 15-in. or optional 7- x 13-in. slicing throat size that allows the use of up to 3 independent product drives.

Engineered for high-volume processors, the Weber hygienic 906 slicer automatically loads 4 logs and creates on-weight slices at blade speeds up to 1,500 rpm, while the 804 model for mid-volume processors has an idle-cut knife head for slices from .5 to 50mm thick and on-weight portions at blade speeds up to 1,500 rpm.

Built for bulky products that have high adhesion or high buoyancy (high surface area and low bulk density) such as leafy greens, the Corenco screw-fed disintegrator features auger feeding.

Accepting infeed products up to 6 1/2 in. in any dimension, the Urschel Sprint 2 dicer has a stainless steel sanitary design throughout the food zone, which is completely isolated from the mechanical zone.

The Franklin Miller Triple-LP delumper/crusher handles sticky, wet, moist substances as well as dry, caked solids.

Capable of handling any size chicken, the Foodmate OPTI-LTD dark meat deboning system debones up to 100 skinless or skin-on whole legs, thighs and drumsticks per min.; it removes meat with low bone content left and leaves the pin bone on the leg.

Designed for beef, pork and poultry cutting and defatting operations, Bettcher Quantum midsize trimmers range in blade diameter from 2.6 to 3.5 in.

The KS Premier food-safe industrial knife sharpener captures metal shavings during the sharpening process.

The Hollymatic Tandem Gemini system connects 2 grinders together for continuous first- and second-grind production.

To appreciate how important food size reduction is to eating, you only need to think about what goes on in your own kitchen.