Being a product for transformation into various delicacies (such as juices, yogurt bases, baby foods, ice cream and jam) fruit puree has always been a focus in Bertuzzi’s 80 year-old history.
If apricots or peaches, cherries or plums, there is hardly any application for which Bertuzzi is incapable in offering the right solution to meet its customers’ needs.
Washing and sorting
Stones fruits (apricot, peaches and plums) are received in the Bertuzzi washer InoxAll where, by immersion in the water and thanks to a Jet System, the surface of the fruits is washed. Fruits are then rinsed by a shower of fresh water on the elevator that takes the fruits to the subsequent sorting operations.
In order to guarantee the best quality of the final products, rotten and unripe fruits must be discarded. Bertuzzi universal sorting line Selinox allows to efficiently inspect the fruits, by making them slowly rotate on a roller belt conveyor under the sight of the operators.
Three parallel washing basins model InoxAll (background) and sorting lines model Selinox (foreground). This plant is capable of processing up to 42 tons per hour of apricots
In smaller plants fruits are manually fed directly into washing basin model InoxAll
Pitting
Expeller Maxi is a destoning machine fitted for the treatment of peaches, plums, apricots and cherries. This patented machine has a capacity of up to 18000 kg/h of fresh fruit and it is capable of processing also hard and large fruits without severe losses in yield. JumboCreamer is used to clean the stones coming from Expeller Maxi in order to recover all possible pulp.
Expeller Maxi (top) and JumboCreamer (bottom)
In this large plant destoning operations are carried out by two Expeller Maxi (second floor) and two JumboCreamer (first floor)
Stones are dried outside the plant
Cold peeling and cooking
For a perfect separation of flesh and juice from peels Bertuzzi is proud of the highly sophisticated pulper, refiner and turbo extractor model Turbomax. The machine can be supplied with inverter suitable to adjust the rotation speed and with an inert gas injection device, for protecting product against oxidation. The same machine is the basis of our cold peeling system.
Turbomax pulper
Peels and fibers after being separated from pulp by Turbomax
A Tubular cooker (right) installed in a stone fruit processing plant
Largest evaporator ever supplied by Bertuzzi, model Frumaco. It is part of a plant capable of processing 42 tons per hour of fresh apricots, installed in China during 2004
The separators of the four effects Frumaco evaporator installed in a 42 t/h apricot concentrated puree line
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.
a CipMatic 1.500/3 installed on a fresh fruit processing line
a Bertuzzi CipMatic 3.000/3 installed in a juice and milk reconstitution line