Pineapple processing

Washing, sorting and sizing

Our universal washing basing InoxAll is suitable for cleaning any fruit destined to the industrial transformation. The unit takes the fruits through two subsequent washing processes: by immersion in a basin and by shower on an elevator.
After being washed, pineapple are fed to our universal sorting station Selinox where they can be efficiently inspected by the personnel.
Depending on the characteristics of the plant and on the fruit to be processed, pineapple can be sized, than to an automatic Sizer to be routed to different extraction machines depending on the dimension

Juice extraction

Our dedicated pineapple juice extractor Pinetronic cuts the fruit in two halves, extracts juice and pulp and eliminates the peel, while obtaining a pulpy juice of excellent quality. No contact between juice and peel takes place.

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Pulp wash

As option a pulp wash system can be provided

Juice refining

Helicoidal extractor ESM is used to depulp juice. A decanter or a centrifuge can be used to further reduce the pulp content.

Concentration

Our plate evaporator Flashterm is perfectly suitable to process pineapple juice because of the low residence times and the low temperatures involved in order to maintain the organoleptic characteristics of the juice.

Sterilization and filling

The pineapple juice, concentrated or natural single strenght, can be sterilizied or pasteurized depending by the specific request of the application, by a plate sterilizer model Sterilflash or a plate pasteurizer model Thermoflash.

Once sterilized the product can be filled in aseptic bag in drums or in box thanks to Bertuzzi Aseptic Fillers.

Cleaning of the plant

All Bertuzzi lines are designed according to the international food grade requirements and to be fully cleanable by exploiting integrated cleaning procedures and systems or centralized and fully automatic CIP system. The Bertuzzi CipMatic is specifically designed to guarantee a perfect and efficent CIP of the fruit processing plants.