Fruit Processing Machines
Freezer Dryer
A freeze dryer with batch input from 3 kg, 5 kg and 10 kg up to 1000 kg, 2000 kg and 5000 kg, used to produce instant fruit juice powder and dried fruit slices.
Product Overview
A freeze dryer with batch input from 3 kg, 5 kg and 10 kg up to 1000 kg, 2000 kg and 5000 kg, used to produce instant fruit juice powder and dried fruit slices. Each machine is designed around the product: its shape, its state and its input water percentage all change the shelf and cycle design. Standard components include the dry chamber and door, trap vessels, air cooling compressor, dry filter, solenoid valve, thermostatic expansion valve, pressure controller, heating plate, temperature sensor, vacuum pump, vacuum gauge, silencer, temperature controller, recorder and control panel.
Key benefits
Why Buyers Choose This Specification
Cycle Designed Around Your Product
Freeze drying time is set by product shape, state and starting moisture. Designing the machine around those three rather than selling a standard chamber is what makes the cycle time predictable.
Batch Sizes From 3 kg to 5000 kg
The same technology covers a laboratory trial and a production plant. A pilot machine at 3 kg lets a recipe be proven before the capital is committed.
Recorder Fitted as Standard
A freeze drying cycle is only reproducible if it is recorded. The recorder and temperature controller come with the machine rather than being added later.
Energy-Saving Operation
Freeze drying is energy intensive by nature, so the efficiency of the refrigeration and vacuum systems is where the running cost of the product is actually decided.
Application scenarios
Where It Is Used
- Producing instant fruit juice powder
- Drying fruit slices for snack products
- Preserving high-value botanicals without heat damage
- Pilot trials at 3 kg to 10 kg before scaling
- Production freeze drying at 1000 kg to 5000 kg per batch
- Producing shelf-stable ingredients from seasonal fruit
Who it is for
The Buyers This Product Suits
Fruit Powder Producers
Instant juice powder is the named application, and freeze drying is what preserves colour and flavour that spray drying loses.
Snack Manufacturers
Dried fruit slices keep their shape and colour through freeze drying in a way hot air drying does not achieve.
Developers Scaling a Product
Batch sizes from 3 kg upward mean the same process can be proven small and then scaled.
Problems it solves
What It Fixes
Heat Damage in Conventional Drying
Freeze drying removes water by sublimation under vacuum, so colour, flavour and structure survive.
Unrepeatable Drying Cycles
Temperature controller and recorder are standard components, so the cycle is documented and reproducible.
Machines Sized Before the Product Is Known
The machine is customised to product shape, state and input water percentage rather than chosen from a chamber size.
Specifications
Published Figures For This Product
Every value below comes from our own product specification. Where a figure is not published we leave it out rather than estimating it.
| Product Model | HTK-DGJ-01 |
|---|---|
| Input | 3 kg, 5 kg, 10 kg to 1000 kg, 2000 kg, 5000 kg, customised |
| Products | Fruit juice instant powder, dry fruit slices |
| Design Basis | Product shape, product state, input water percentage |
| Chamber | Dry chamber with dry chamber door, trap vessels |
| Refrigeration | Air cooling compressor, dry filter, solenoid valve, thermostatic expansion valve, pressure controller |
| Vacuum | Vacuum pump, vacuum gauge, silencer |
| Control | Heating plate, temperature sensor, temperature controller, recorder, control panel |
| Minimum Order | One unit |
| Production Capacity | 100 units per month |
| Grade | 3 kg to 5000 kg input |
Packing and documents
How It Ships And What Comes With It
Packing And Loading
Shipping volume for this item depends on the configuration and capacity you select, so no fixed container figure is published. Confirm the specification and the destination and a loading plan is issued with the quotation, rather than a figure we cannot support.
Documentation On File
- Fruit Beverage and Packaging · Fruit Processing Machines Specification Sheet18.5 KB
- Catalogue · Full Product Catalogue154.0 KB
Sourcing And Inspection
This product is supplied through TrueGlow Imaging, working with manufacturing partners whose facilities are visited and verified rather than taken on trust. In-process quality control and delivery supervision are available so goods are inspected before the container is sealed. Certifications quoted on this page are those stated on the product specification and belong to that product range rather than to our trading entity, so ask for the certificate covering your specific item.
Handling guide
Getting It Right First Time
Step 1
Send product samples with the starting moisture content before specifying the machine.
Step 2
Confirm the slice or particle geometry, since it sets shelf loading and cycle time.
Step 3
Size the batch from your production schedule, not from the cycle length alone.
Step 4
Record every cycle with the fitted recorder and keep the traces for process validation.
Step 5
Include vacuum pump and compressor servicing in the maintenance plan.
Comparison
How It Compares In Our Range
Freeze drying against hot air and spray drying.
| Freeze Dryer | Preserves colour, flavour and structure. Highest capital and energy cost, and the only choice where product quality carries the price. |
|---|---|
| Hot Air Drying | Much lower cost per kilo, but changes colour, flavour and texture on delicate fruit. |
FAQ
Freezer Dryer Questions
What batch sizes are available?
3 kg, 5 kg, 10 kg up to 1000 kg, 2000 kg and 5000 kg, customised.
What can it produce?
Fruit juice instant powder, dry fruit slices and similar freeze dried products.
How is the machine specified?
It is designed to your product shape, product state and product input water percentage.
What components are included?
Dry chamber and door, trap vessels, air cooling compressor, dry filter, solenoid valve, thermostatic expansion valve, pressure controller, heating plate, temperature sensor, vacuum pump, vacuum gauge, silencer, temperature controller, recorder and control panel.
What is the minimum order?
One unit, with a production capacity of 100 units per month.
What is the model number?
HTK-DGJ-01.
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Industries
Sectors That Use This Product
Fruit and Juice Processing
Sizing a seasonal line so the harvest becomes product rather than waste.
Food Packaging Lines
Depalletizing to palletizing, balanced against the filler in the middle.
Dairy Processing
From the milking parlour to the sealed pack, with the cleaning system that keeps it legal.
Further reading
Guides That Cover This Product
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.
Quote Freezer Dryer
Send the capacity or size you need, the quantity and the destination, and we will confirm the configuration, the lead time and a loading plan.