Sweet pepper decorer
Streamline your sweet pepper processing with a high-speed solution that efficiently removes cores, cleanses interiors, and segments peppers with precision—ensuring minimal waste and optimal yield for diverse culinary applications.

Efficiently Decores and Segments Sweet Peppers
The SPD 550 from JBT’s FTNON brand is a robust solution for efficient and precise sweet pepper processing. This machine excels in automated decoring and segmenting tasks, enabling food processing companies and industrial kitchens to transform whole peppers into desired formats swiftly. With its capability to process up to 5,500 peppers per hour, it suits high-demand environments, maintaining consistency and quality. The SPD 550 operates on an innovative automated clamping and cutting mechanism, which removes cores and segments peppers into halves, quarters, or other sizes as required. It boasts a compact, hygienic design, facilitating easy integration into narrow spaces and ensuring straightforward cleaning and maintenance.
Applications include producing fresh pepper slices, diced peppers, and pepper-infused products, catering to industries involved in ready meals, baby food, and vegetable processing. Benefit from seamless automation in your production line, as the system integrates effortlessly, optimizing both throughput and adaptability, while reducing operational footprint and manual intervention. Customizable options are available, such as different segmenting tools and add-on conveyors, tailored to meet diverse processing needs and enhance product handling efficiency.
Benefits
- Boosts productivity with the ability to process up to 5,500 peppers per hour.
- Minimizes labor requirements by accommodating operation with just one or two operators.
- Ensures high-quality output with precise automated coring and segmenting, reducing waste.
- Saves space with its compact design, offering flexibility in production line arrangements.
- Simplifies maintenance with easy-access components and a hygienic, easy-to-clean build.
- Applications
- Ready meals,Soups,Sauces,Potatoes,Fresh produce,Oils,Dressings,Vegetables,Seasonings,Baby food
- End products
- Fresh pepper slices,Diced bell pepper,Pre-packaged stuffed peppers,Pepper potato stew,Sweet pepper baby purée,Pepper-infused oil,Roasted red pepper soup,Pepper seasoning mix,Pepper vinaigrette,Sweet pepper sauce
- Steps before
- Sorting,Washing,Pre-sizing,Inspection
- Steps after
- Segmenting,Cooking,Packing,Preservation
- Input ingredients
- sweet peppers,bell peppers,pre-sized peppers
- Output ingredients
- cored peppers,de-seeded peppers,halved peppers,quartered peppers,cleaned peppers,segmented peppers,hollow peppers
- Market info
- JBT is known for manufacturing innovative industrial machinery and solutions, particularly in the food processing and air transportation sectors, renowned for their advanced technology, reliability, and customer-focused engineered-to-order solutions tailored to specific industry needs.
- Capacity
- Up to 5,500 peppers/hour
- Operator Requirement
- 1 or 2 operators
- Size
- Height
- Length
- 2,175 mm
- Width
- 1,960 mm
- Diameter Range of Bell Pepper
- 55 mm - 120 mm
- Height Range of Bell Pepper
- 65 mm - 170 mm
- Automation
- Fully automated process
- Segmenting Options
- Halves,Quarters
- Cleaning Method
- Overpressure air system
- Working Mechanism
- Automated clamping
- Integrated Steps
- Clamping,centering,coring,cleaning,segmenting
- Capacity
- 5,500 pieces per hour
- Manual vs. Automated Operation
- Manual feeding,automated processing
- Number of Operators Required
- 1 or 2
- Space-saving Design
- Compact footprint
- Cleaning Method
- Hygienic design for easy cleaning
- Coring Depth Control
- Automatic
- Segmentation Options
- Halves,quarters,sixths,eighths
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Machine Height
- 1,655 mm (65")
- Machine Length
- 2,175 mm (86")
- Machine Width
- 1,960 mm (77")
- Compact Footprint
- Yes
- Discharge Method
- Outfeed conveyor (optional)
- Feed Method
- Manual placement/ infeed conveyor (optional)
- Infeed Conveyor
- Optional Add-on
- Swan-neck Outfeed Conveyor
- Optional Add-on
- Knife Section
- Optional Add-on
- Production of Hollow Peppers
- Optional Add-on