Ketchup production line
In the food industry, producing high-quality ketchup and vegetable sauces involves handling diverse recipes and strict hygienic standards. Ensuring consistent blending, homogenization, and pasteurization processes are crucial to delivering a final product that meets consumer expectations while maintaining production efficiency.
Ensures consistent and flexible sauce production
The Ketchup Production Line from Bertuzzi is designed to meet advanced technological and stringent hygienic requirements. This production line is flexible, allowing the processing of various recipes with or without thickeners, vegetable particles, or preservatives. The system includes several ingredient preparation groups customized to specific needs, such as tomato paste dilution, sugar and salt dosing, and spice blending. The blending section uses special horizontal mixing tanks for homogeneous mixing and high-performance recipe reliability. Additional processes include deaeration, high-pressure homogenization, and pasteurization using a tubular heat exchanger. The line can handle high-capacity plants with automated ingredient dosing systems and integrated cleaning through the Bertuzzi CipMatic system.
Benefits
- Flexibility to process various recipes
- Automated and semi-automated ingredient dosing
- Homogeneous mixing with horizontal blending tanks
- Integrated deaeration, homogenization, and pasteurization
- Automated cleaning with CIP system