ABOUT US
OUR STORY
Werner Poss developed the POSS mechanical separator
technology in the mid 1970’s and POSS Design Limited was
formed in 1978. Driven by industry demand for reliable and
consistently high performance in meat recovery, continuous
advancements were made and now a range of mechanical
separation configurations have been developed to meet an
increasingly diverse series of separation applications.
POSS has been marketing this proven line of mechanical
separators since 1978, and now has more than 1,800+
machines running in more than 69 countries worldwide,
300+ installations in the USA alone, and a well-established
client base wherever high volume poultry processing exists.
POSS is truly the Global Industry Leader in Quality
Separation Solutions.
The majority of these machines are designed to process
conventional chicken mechanical deboning, following
manual and automated poultry cut up lines.
The remainder were sold for pork deboning and beef
shank de-sinewing, as well as various niche applications
including fish, pork skin de-fatting and boney trim to
recover high value coarse ground product.
From the new ProMax300C (300 kg / 660 lbs/hr, 7.5hp /
5.6 kW) up to the game changing ProMax9000 (17,000+
kg / 40,000+ lbs/hr, 250 hp / 190 kW), POSS offers
machines to cover the full spectrum of processing
volumes and separation applications.
With unmatched yields, due in part to our proprietary
hydraulic ‘Auto Restrictor’, high through-puts, no prebreaking, and unparalleled low temperature rise and
premium coarse ground texture in the recovered meat,
can you really afford NOT to be running a POSS?
COMPANY MISSION & VISION
Mission
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Vision
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COMPANY VALUES
Company Value
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"IT'S ALL WE DO AND WE DO IT ALL"
For over four decades, we have been researching and developing the highest performing mechanical separators in the industry.
Today, over 1,800+ POSS machines are running in more than 69 countries, providing the highest available yields for our customers and delivering profitable results where byproduct used to be.
Ken Gulak
President
Ken Gulak
President
Ken graduated from University of Western Ontario (London Ontario) in 1984 with an undergrad
degree majoring in Finance. Originally from Alberta, Ken worked in the Heavy Oil industry prior to
joining POSS as the Controller in 1988. Promoted to GM in 1996, Ken gradually assumed more
responsibility at POSS until the founder, Werner Poss, sold the company to Shato Holdings in 2000, at which time Ken was promoted to President / CEO.
In 2003 Ken and his wife Sylvie bought the company back from Shato, and began a steady pattern of growth that has seen the company expand its install base from 250 to over 1600+ machines in 68 countries. Backed by a solid technical team and with a single focus on rotary extruder style separation, POSS has built an unparalleled reputation for meeting or exceeding its client’s expectations worldwide across a wide range of mechanical separation applications.
Dale Morris
Board Member
Dale graduated from the University of Georgia with a degree in Agriculture. Named Outstanding Junior, Dale was the recipient of the Poultry Science Student of the Year award. While at the University of Georgia, Dale served as Editor of the “Poultryman” magazine, Chairman of the “Chicken of Tomorrow Contest”, chairman of the “Poultry Princess Contest”, and a member of the Poultry Judging team.
During the summer months of his college career, Dale worked as a USDA Inspector in Chicken and Turkey plants in the North Georgia Area and upon graduation he joined the Southeastern Poultry and Egg association as Director of Public Relations and Membership. Dale joined Mar-Jac Poultry in Gainesville Georgia in 1969 as a salesman and was promoted to Executive Vice President and later served as President from 1977 to 1984.
Dale joined Meyn USA in 1984 and served as President with responsibility for US sales of Meyn processing equipment until 1992, during which time he sold POSS machines to many US turkey processors. Dale then started his own company, Forfood International Inc. in 1992, representing and selling POSS, Prime Equipment and SB Impianti pickers from Italy in the US chicken and turkey processing market.
Theo Hoen
Board Member
Processing plants. He became Technical Director in 1992. In this function he was responsible for the engineering, research and development activities of Stork Poultry Processing. Since December 2001 he became also General Manager of Stork Further Processing. In 2002 Theo took over as managing director of Stork Food Systems. In 2009 Theo was asked to become the CEO of Marel. Since 1st April 2014 he changed his job and joined the privately owned company Vencomatic. Vencomatic is a company which delivers farming equipment for layers and broilers. His whole career Theo has been working in the meat market and more specifically in the Poultry market. Theo is also member of the advisory board of the Technical Highschool in Venlo and was for eight years member of the advisory board of the Eurotier exhibition. Theo joined the POSS Advisory Board in 2013.
Sultan Thiara
Board Member
Sultan Thiara is a Canadian Chartered Accountant and currently is Senior Executive Vice President & CFO for Shato Holdings Ltd., a privately held company owned by the Toigo Family from Vancouver British Columbia, Canada. He has headed up acquisitions & divestures as well as long term strategic planning for the Shato Group.
Sultan holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of British Columbia. He has been employed by the Shato Group since 1988. Prior to joining the Shato Group Sultan spent several years in Chartered Accountant firms Wolrige Mahon as well as Laventhol & Horwath.
Sultan has also served on various Boards including Seymour Golf & Country Club, Children’s Hospital, and the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame. Well connected with Canadian banking, Sultan joined the Advisory Board of POSS Design Limited in 2004 and maintains similar roles in other privately held companies in the Vancouver area.
Robert (Rob) Williamson
Vice President of Operations
He started his career in the poultry processing industry in 1993. Working from the ground up since he was 19 years old, Rob started at MD Poultry in Paris Ontario where he mentored under George Desender, a 40 yearveteran in the further processing of poultry. Rob was following in the footsteps of his Grandfather, Bob Williamson, who in 1937 managed the Irish Hog Marketing Board, as well as his father, Fred Williamson who dedicated over 30 years of his career to the Canadian Meat Industry, working with Fearman’s, Protein Foods and later with Pinty’s.
Moving into the Industrial Food Processing Equipment business was a natural fit for Rob’s background and skill set. Rob has over 20 years of experience in the meat processing industry, from Mechanical Separation through sausage making, Production and Maintenance. With 15 of those years spent running and overseeing POSS equipment, Rob brings a wide range of food industry experience as well as technical expertise to POSS. He joined POSS in 2008 and was promoted to VP Operations in 2012 where he heads up the Turn-key Systems Integration Division of POSS.
POSS featured in Meat Packing Journal
“Polskamp produces for its customers mechanically deboned chicken meat (MDM), chicken 3MM MDM white, chicken 3MM MDM red, and chicken MDM halal.”
According to Ken Gulak, president of POSS, “what Polskamp does is a very simple thing but it does it very, very well.”