Pineapple processing

Pineapple is one of the most popular tropical fruit and the consumption of its delicious juice is increasing significantly. Bertuzzi has developed highly specialized technologies for the production of both natural and concetrated pineapple juice. We are especially proud of our dedicated pineapple juice extractor Pinetronic, which guarantees utmost product quality by minimizing any contact between peel and juice.

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

Fresh pineapples are received at the plant in a concrete basin filled with water. This pineapple processing plant, depicted in many other pictures in this page, is located in Vietnam and it has a capacity of 10 tons per hour
Immersion washing basin model InoxAll
Sorting line model Selinox
Sizing

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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Pineapple juice extractors model Pinetronic
Pineapples are fed to a Pinetronic juice extractor
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Pineapple peels from Pinetronic

Pulp wash

As option a pulp wash system can be provided

Pulp wash system (foreground)
Completely exhausted fibers following the pulp wash

Juice refining

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

Helicoidal extractor ESM
Plate centrifuge

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.

a two effects rising film plate evaporator model FlashTerm processing fruit juices
Pineapple concentrated juice obtained by competitors (bottles on the sides) and by Bertuzzi proprietary technology (central bottle)

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.

a plate sterilizer model Sterilflash in operation
Aseptic filler Aseptica Gemina during precommissioning
Aseptic filler Aseptica Prima during operation
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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.

The CipMatic 3.000/3 during the operation test in Bertuzzi site
a CipMatic 1.500/3 installed on a fresh fruit processing line