Single-pass tea extraction system
Achieve consistent, high-quality ready-to-drink tea extraction with a streamlined, semi-continuous system that optimizes each step, from wetting tea leaves to clarifying and packaging, ensuring your beverage meets precise taste and texture specifications.
Extracts Tea for RTD Beverage Production
The Single-Pass Tea Extraction System from Tetra Pak® operates as a semi-continuous solution tailored for producing ready-to-drink (RTD) tea beverages. Utilizing precise batching, continuous extraction, and efficient discharge processes, the system ensures flavorful extraction from tea leaves while maintaining consistent quality. This equipment is ideal for creating RTD black, green, and herbal teas, as well as iced and flavored tea beverages. The extraction process is integrated with cooling, clarification, and heat treatment stages to enhance the beverage’s stability and taste. Additionally, the system complements downstream packaging operations, providing seamless integration into existing production lines. It is engineered for durability and energy efficiency, optimizing motor control to reduce energy consumption, thereby benefiting operational costs and sustainability goals. The system’s robust construction supports varied production demands, making it a reliable choice for food and beverage producers seeking versatile and efficient tea processing capabilities.
Benefits
- Enhances product consistency by optimizing the tea extraction process for flavor retention.
- Reduces operational costs through energy-efficient motor control, minimizing energy consumption.
- Integrates smoothly into existing production lines, streamlining overall operations.
- Minimizes downtime with a semi-continuous operation, ensuring steady production flow.
- Supports diverse product offerings, enabling the production of various RTD tea beverages.
- Applications
- Tea leaves,Beverages,Rtd tea
- End products
- Rtd green tea,Rtd black tea,Iced tea,Flavored tea beverages,Rtd herbal tea
- Steps before
- Batching,Filling the extractor with water,Wetting tea leaves
- Steps after
- Cooling,Clarifying,Formulating,Heat treating,Packaging
- Input ingredients
- tea leaves,water
- Output ingredients
- RTD tea,tea extract,spent tea leaves
- Market info
- Tetra Pak is renowned for providing innovative packaging solutions, specializing in carton packaging for the food and beverage industry. It is esteemed for high-quality, sustainable, and efficient processing and packaging equipment on a global scale.
- Process type
- Semi-continuous
- Batching method
- Batch in tea leaves
- Extraction method
- Single-pass
- Cooling method
- Cool after extraction
- Clarification
- Optional
- Automation
- Automated process
- Heat treatment
- Integrated
- Working mechanism
- Semi-continuous
- Integrated steps
- Batching,Wetting,Extraction,Recovery,Discharge
- CIP/SIP principles
- CIP capable
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Semi-continuous
- Tea compatibility
- Leaves/water/RTD tea
- Cleanability
- CIP/SIP compliant
- Corrosive resistance
- Yes,suitable for food-grade acids
- Tea leaf type
- Varying types
- Feed method
- Batching in tea leaves
- Discharge method
- Discharge spent tea leaves