Fruit Processing Machines
Intake to aseptic bag: washing, sorting, destoning, pulping, pressing, drying and filling.
Fruit and Juice Processing
Sizing a seasonal line so the harvest becomes product rather than waste.
Fruit processing runs against a clock. The crop arrives in a short window, quality falls by the day, and any stage that cannot keep pace with intake means fruit sitting on the yard losing value. The range covers washing, sorting, destoning, pulping, pressing, concentration, sterilisation, freeze drying and aseptic filling, all specified in tonnes per hour so a line can be balanced against one intake figure.
Sector pain points
What Goes Wrong In This Sector
Intake Faster Than the Line Can Process
Every stage is quoted in T/H so the whole line can be sized against peak intake rather than seasonal average.
Stones Destroying the Pulper
A destoner ahead of the pulper removes the stone whole, which protects the most expensive machine on the line and keeps kernel bitterness out of the juice.
Plate Equipment Blocking on Viscous Product
Tomato paste and concentrate will not pass a plate exchanger. Tube-in-tube sterilisation is the geometry that handles them.
Cold Chain Cost on Bulk Product
Aseptic bag filling lets sterilised puree and concentrate ship at ambient, which is the entire economics of the bulk fruit trade.
Drying Cost Driven by Water Content
Evaporating water under vacuum costs a fraction of removing it in a dryer. Concentrating first is the largest energy decision on a powder line.
Bruising From the Wrong Washing Method
Brush washing scrubs firm fruit; surfing-water washing suits fruit that bruises. The wrong choice damages the crop at the first stage.
What buyers need
What This Sector Actually Asks For
- Capacities stated in tonnes per hour for every stage
- SUS316L on product contact for acidic fruit and long campaigns
- Equipment that can be added stage by stage between seasons
- Aseptic filling so product ships without refrigeration
- Evaporation ahead of drying to control energy cost
- Machines that survive a wash-down every production day
Product groups
Groups That Serve This Sector
Tubular UHT Sterilizers
Continuous UHT for thin liquids at 137 degrees C and for viscous products at 95 to 121 degrees C.
Evaporators and Concentrators
Removing water under vacuum before drying, at a fraction of the cost of drying it out.
Packaging Machines
Labelling, sleeving, wrapping, cartoning, palletizing and depalletizing at line speed.
Sanitary Pumps
Product transfer and CIP return duties in SUS304 or SUS316L from 1000 to 30,000 L/H.
Plant Utility Equipment
Boilers, cooling towers, air compressors and chillers sized to the process they serve.
Recommended products
Where Most Buyers In This Sector Start
How we work with you
From Enquiry To Repeat Supply
State Peak Intake Not Average
Tonnes per hour at the busiest week of the harvest is the figure that sizes every machine on the line.
Identify the Fruit and Its Behaviour
Firmness decides the washer, stone content decides whether a destoner is needed, acidity decides the material grade.
Choose the Product Form
Clear juice from a belt press, pulp from a pulper, concentrate from an evaporator, powder from a dryer. Each is a different line.
Decide How It Ships
Aseptic bag for bulk, PET bottle for retail. This choice sets the sterilisation and filling equipment.
Commission Before the Season
A line commissioned during the harvest loses fruit. Install and prove it in the off season.
Further reading
Guides For This Sector
Pasteurisation Versus UHT for Liquid Dairy
Three thermal profiles, three different machines and three different distribution models. Which one your plant needs is decided by shelf life and cold chain, not by capacity.
Specifying a CIP System That Actually Cleans
A cleaning cycle that runs without flow cleans nothing and reports success. Conductivity monitoring, flow switches and return pump selection are what make CIP verifiable.
Balancing a Packaging Line Before You Buy It
A line runs at the speed of its slowest machine, and that machine is rarely the filler. Every speed in this range is published, so the bottleneck can be found with arithmetic.
FAQ
Fruit and Juice Processing Questions
How should we size the line?
Against peak intake during the harvest, not the seasonal average. Fruit that cannot be processed the day it arrives loses value quickly.
Which washing machine type?
Brush washing for firm fruit such as apples, surfing-water washing for softer fruit that bruises.
Which material grade for tomato and citrus?
SUS316L on product contact parts, because both are acidic and campaigns run continuously for weeks.
Can we start small and grow?
Yes. Capacities start at 1 T/H on most machines and every model is sold from one unit.
Do you supply aseptic filling?
Yes. Aseptic bag filling at 1 to 30 T/H, plus aseptic tanks and tube-in-tube sterilisation.
Can you supply a full line as a package?
Yes. Send the fruit, the intake rate and the finished product form, and every stage is sized against them.
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