SUS 304/316 Advanced Manufacturing Technology Tomato Sauce Processing Line

Product description of tomato processing plant

Tomato processing lines can produce from raw tomatoes to different types of finished products. Popular products such as Tomato Paste, Tomato Sauce & Ketchup, and Tomato Juice Processing Line produce finished products from fresh tomatoes to aseptic bags in drums.

The processing line mainly includes fresh tomato receiving system, washing system, sorting system, crushing system, pulping and refining system, filtration system, concentration system, sterilization system, aseptic filling system. Then you can fill the sterilized bags in the drum with tomato paste.

Tomato paste in sterile drum bags is further processed into tomato ketchup, sauces and juices and packed in sachets, stand-up pouches, metal cans, PP containers, bottles, gable tops, etc.

Gofun can not only provide tomato processing equipment for your plant, but also provide a one-stop solution from A to Z. This includes:

• 1 year after-sales service warranty
• package design and purchase
• On-site installation commissioning and training
• customized proposal design
• Equipment manufacturing
• Technical consultation
• Lifetime service

Main parameters of tomato production line

FRESH TOMATO ⇒ CONVEYOR ⇒ WASHING ⇒ SORTING ⇒ CRUSHING ⇒ PREHEATING ⇒ PULPER & REFINER ⇒ EVAPORATING ⇒ STERILIZING ⇒ ASEPTIC FILLING ⇒ STORAGE OR BLENDING

Final products & Package types for tomato project

Shanghai Gofun Machinery Company offers all kinds of tomato processing lines.

The raw material can be fresh tomato, tomato paste, etc. And the final product can be tomato paste, tomato ketchup, tomato sauce, tomato juice, tomato powder, whole peeled tomato, etc.

For the final package, it can be an aseptic bag, metal can, sachet, stand-up pouch, PP container, glass bottle, PET bottle, gable top, etc.

Main features of the tomato processing line

Tomato processing line is the main product of Shanghai Chalk Machinery Company. Over the last 16 years he has served over 20 countries. We continue to provide high-quality machines and services to food manufacturers around the world.

1. In addition to aseptic bagging, we also handle metal cans, small bags, standing pouches, glass jars, PET/PP containers, etc.

2. The operation is simple and human. All feeding and maintenance areas are designed with feeding and maintenance platforms to ensure operator safety.

3. The production line points adopt the international first brand. (Steam valve adopts Spirax Sarco, Siemens PLC, etc.)

4. The design of the entire production line is compact, scientific, stable operation, high efficiency, energy saving and low steam consumption.

5. All materials are food standard, the main material is SUS304 or SUS316, which fully meets the requirements of food hygiene and safety.

Key process of the tomato paste processing line

Now Shanghai Gofun machinery company will introduce the information of tomato paste processing line to show it works.

1. Discharge platform

When fresh tomatoes come, it's usually a heavy truck, and it's very difficult to drain with humans. So we design a discharge platform, use a water gun to drain fresh fruit / tomatoes from the truck, and use water to deliver the fresh fruit / tomatoes to the processing line. In addition, the discharge platform has another feature that allows you to pre-wash fresh fruits / tomatoes before processing.

2. Elevator

This machine is used to deliver fresh fruit from outside the building into the building.

3. Washing

Fresh fruits should be washed carefully before being crushed. A bubble washer and a spray washer can be used together for cleaning. If the cleaning requirements are high, you can increase the number of stages of cleaning. In addition, ultrasonic cleaning and ozone cleaning can be added to enhance the cleaning effect.

4. Sorting

After washing, the surface of the fruit is clean, the condition of all the fruits can be checked by human eyes, and bad tomatoes can be sorted by humans.

5. Crushing for tomato processing

GFM-FC series crusher has most advanced working principle, higher accuracy of manufacture and best crushing functions.The machine is composed of feed hopper, side cover, frame, principal axis, bearing block, motor, motor structure, outlet hopper etc.

6. Preheating

The pre-heater is used to heat the product after crusher, the temperature is adjustable, normally from 45℃ to 85℃.

7. Pulper and refiner

This machine is also running with speed of 1470 r/min, it causes the centrifugal force and the product will go through screen, helps to refine the product. The double stage pulping machine for tomato pulp yield rate can reach 90%~95%. And normally we use double stage of pulper and refiner, the screen of each stage is different, for first stage the screen would be bigger, and for second stage the screen would be smaller.

8. Evaporating

Vacuum Evaporator is used for concentrating the tomato paste under vacuum and low temperature. Here we are using Forced Circulation Vacuum Evaporator. And right now, we evaporate the water from the tomato pulp, then we will get the tomato paste, normally the Brix is 28-30% and 36-38%.Because it’s under vacuum and low temperature, so the tastes and nutrients would be protected as much as possible.

9. Sterilizing

Tomato paste uses a tube-in-tube type sterilizer. Sterilization temperature and retention time are adjustable. This machine holds the tomato paste at a very high temperature of around 115 ° C for 30 seconds and immediately cools it to ambient temperature. The operating system employs an image man-machine interface that is convenient for intuitively grasping the operating state of each component of the device.

10. Aseptic Filling

The aseptic filling machine is a tube-type sterilizer that works with the tube. It is a closed cycle. Prior to manufacture, the cycle is completely sterilized to ensure a sterile environment. The filling cavity is also steam protected to ensure that the filling environment is also sterile. Security-Provides several security methods. Mirror welding technology is used to ensure an orderly and smooth welding line. Another control panel. CIP and automatic SIP can be used with the sterilizer. Easily adjusted to fit different capacities and sizes of sterile bags.

11. Storage or go blending

The finished product can be stored or used as the raw material to make the tomato sauce or ketchup.