Unire qualità e tecnologia
In questi ultimi mesi anche il mondo dei salumi è stato condizionato dalla pandemia, con conseguenze su un comparto strettamente collegato come il budello.
For more than 25 years, Fortis has acted as a bridge between producers and consumers by selecting, customising and distributing natural casings for the food industry. Natural guts of porcine, bovine, ovine and equine origin, glued and artificial guts, selected through a procurement policy that makes continuous quality research and technological development its strong points.
Working closely with leading, carefully selected Italian and international producers, Fortis researches, designs and develops unique, high-quality products. The company’s ability to provide a customised offering and bespoke service will do the rest, with products tailored to suit customers’ specific needs. Choosing Fortis means choosing quality and innovation: a personalised service for large and small-scale producers of cured meats or fresh sausages.
The natural casings are made from the intestinal tract of hog, beef, sheep and horses. Their shape, size and structure remain unaltered after the first stage of processing, during which casings are rinsed, degreased, cleared of mucous membranes, and salted. While this is done at the slaughterhouse, the next stage takes place in an actual “casing factory”, where a cleaned, sanitised raw material becomes a finished product through a selection and transformation process aimed at creating the perfect casing for cured meats and fresh products alike, whether handmade or produced with cutting-edge industrial techniques.
Dried tubed hog casings are natural casings to all effects, produced by leveraging the adhesive property of collagen, which strengthens their sealing lines during drying. Portions of small pig intestine are opened into sheets, washed and modelled on “moulds” of the desired shape, and allowed to dry. Dried tubed hog casings provide the same advantages as natural casings in terms of meat-to-casing binding and breathability during the drying and curing process, ensuring perfect calibre and length uniformity.
Artificial casings are obtained from processing plant-based (cellulosic) or animal fibres (beef collagen), intended for raw and cooked standardised products. Artificial casings include edible types, which are used for fresh products such as sausages. Since 2022, Fortis has been the official distributor of FABIOS S.A. collagen gut with exclusive rights since 2023 for the edible variant F-CASE.
