Agri-Food Machinery

Agri-Food Machinery
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Agri-Food Machinery

Product catalog summary
Overview
The document provides a comprehensive overview of the Alutec Group's expertise in designing and manufacturing machinery for the agri-food sector, focusing on fruit and vegetable processing. With over 30 years of experience in industrial automation and leveraging the CAMPESATO know-how, Alutec is well-positioned in the market.

Key Sections
  • Consulting, Design, and Construction: Alutec emphasizes building strong customer relationships to understand needs and provide optimized project solutions.
  • Product Range: Details on machines and systems for processing vegetables like garlic, carrots, onions, green beans, and potatoes, highlighting high-quality and reliability.
  • Geographical Reach: The Campesato brand is globally recognized, with presence in countries including Italy, the United States, and China.

Machinery and Systems
  • Receiving and Pre-Processing: Equipment includes bin dumpers, receiving tanks, pre-washing tanks, conveyor belts, stone removers, and soil removers, designed for large capacities and various root vegetables.
  • Processing: Machines like bubbling washers, barrel washers, polish washers, brusher drippers, and piece removers are used for washing and removing waste.
  • Grading: Vibrating grid graders and roller graders sort products by size and remove improperly sized pieces.
  • Container Filling Systems: Systems include single and double bins filling, bag filling machines, and jumbo bag filling systems for gentle and efficient handling.

Special Machines
  • Destemmer/Cluster Separator: Used to untangle and separate products at the start of the line.
  • Hydrocooler and Hydraulic Press: Additional equipment for specific processing needs.

Case Histories
Includes examples of Alutec's machinery applications in processing plants for garlic, carrots, green beans, onions, and potatoes.

Conclusion
Alutec Group offers a wide range of machinery and systems for the agri-food sector, backed by extensive experience and global reach. Their solutions are tailored to meet diverse customer needs, ensuring high-quality and efficient processing of fruit and vegetable products.
Detailed Machinery Overview
  • Hydrocooler: Cools products with ice-cold water, suitable for long, thin products like green beans, with capacities from 3,000 to 15,000 kg/h.
  • Even Flow Hopper: Automatically receives, holds, and doses products to downstream machines, with a capacity of 1,000 to 30,000 kg/h.
  • Hydraulic Press for Waste: Compacts leaves and stems from onion or garlic processing, reducing volume significantly, with a capacity of 30 to 60 blocks/h.
  • Processing Plants: Details on processing plants for carrots, potatoes, garlic, onions, and green beans, including specific machines like barrel washers and roller belts.
  • End of Line System: Automation solutions for palletizing, including Cartesian systems, stackers, and unstackers, with optional modules for full automation.

Conclusion
The document emphasizes the importance of choosing the right automation to maintain production efficiency. Alutec offers custom solutions to ensure smooth operations and protect operators from heavy lifting.
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Thanks to over 30 years’ experience in the aluminium profile market, Alutec Group can boast a solid know-how in the field of industrial automation. Our mission is to establish a close relationship with the customers, understand their needs, solve problems, and recommend the best solution to optimize the cost of implementing their projects. Consulting, Design and Construction that can meet the most different requirements in order to help each customer in developing their business is our daily work.

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Alutec Food, thanks to original CAMPESATO know-how which has been on the market for more than 60 years, designs and manufactures individual machines and complete systems for processing fruit and vegetable products such as garlic, carrots, onions, green beans, potatoes, roots, courgettes and much more. Its highly qualified staff and the contribution of the Alutec Group, enable it to manufacture top quality products of the utmost reliability, as proven by many Italian and foreign customers. Campesato brand in the world Albania, Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Chile,...

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index Receiving and pre-processing Conveyor belt with hopper pag. 08 Soil remover with starcleaner plates pag. 09 POLISH Washer with brushes pag. 11 Piece remover with square mesh belt pag. 12 Roller inspection table pag. 13 Piece cloves splitting machine pag. 14 Roller grass remover pag. 09 Vibrating grid grader pag. 15 Grading Roller grader pag. 16 Piece remover with vibrating channels pag. 16 Single and double bins filling system pag. 17 Container filling systems Special machines End of line System Alutec Jumbo bag filling system pag. 18 Even Flow hopper pag. 20 Hydraulic press for waste pag....

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Also ideal for: beets, turnips, shallots, celeriac, roots. Placed on the receiving tank, or on any machine at the start of line, the dumper empties the bins by rotating them. The bin containing the product is placed inside the dumper by a forklift, then with remote control the emptying cycle is started. The bins are first held by pneumatically operated jaws, and then overturned. The dumper returns to its initial position, and the operator can remove the empty bins and replace it with a full one. Estimated production capacity of 50 to 60 cycles per minute. Receiving tank Also ideal for: cucumbers,...

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Pre-washing tank Also ideal for: beets, turnips, celeriac, roots. The pre-washing tank is usually located at the start of line, and is used for an initial wash of products that normally grow underground. The product, placed in the initial tank filled with water, is taken up and transported out of the tank by an elevator belt, which transports it to the following machine. The sludge produced settles to the bottom of the tank, and is expelled by means of a drain valve. The water tank also includes an air system to provide movement of the water, a bubbling takes place, which facilitates the cleaning...

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Conveyor belt with hopper Also ideal for: beets, turnips, shallots, celeriac, roots. The conveyor belt with hopper is used at the start of line to constantly load and feed the product to be processed. It consists of a tank of different size depending on the product and the required capacity, with a belt inside that advances intermittently and at variable speed to feed the downstream machine. Estimated production capacity: • Carrots from 10.000 to 25.000 Kg/h; • Potatoes from 12.000 to 30.000 Kg/h; • Green beans from 4.000 to 8.000 Kg/h; • Various turnips and roots from 12.000 to 30.000 Kg/h....

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Soil remover with starcleaner plates Also ideal for: roots. The soil remover with starcleaner plates is used to remove soil and stones from the production cycle. The process involves passing the product on a series of fast-rotating rollers, on the rollers are placed a number of starcleaner plates with a soft rubber end, which is useful for removing soil but without damaging the product. The product advances on the rollers to the exit while the soil and stones fall in the tank below. Estimated production capacity: • Carrots, potatoes, onions and various roots from 6.000 to 15.000 Kg/h. Roller...

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Bubbling washer Also ideal for: fresh and leafy vegetables. The bubbling washer is used to wash fresh and leafy vegetables using water that is stirred by compressed air, supplied by a special blower. The incoming product falls into the water-filled tank and through bubbling advances to the outlet, clearing it of any soil residue. Dirty water is discharged at constant intervals, and clean water is fed into the tank. Estimated production capacity: • Green beans from 1.000 to 6.000 Kg/h; • Leafy vegetables from 4.000 to 10.000 Kg/h; • Tomatoes from 2.000 to 15.000 Kg/h. Barrel washer Also ideal...

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Washer with brushes POLISH Also ideal for: roots. The Polish washer was designed and built for washing and brushing products such as carrots, potatoes, and roots of different types. The machine is equipped with a set of brushes fitted to form a barrel. The rotation of the barrel and that of the brushes on their own axis, at adjustable speed, combined with several sprayers allow for optimal washing. The machine can also be equipped with a prewash zone. Estimated production capacity: • Carrots from 4.000 to 12.000 Kg/h; • Potatoes from 4.000 to 15.000 Kg/h; • Turnips and roots in general from 6.000...

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Brusher dripper Also ideal for: turnips and roots. The dripping machine, placed after the washers, allows excess water to be removed from fruit and vegetable products. A mechanical extractor allows the product remaining inside the machine to be discharged at the end of processing. Estimated production capacity: • Potatoes from 6.000 to 15.000 Kg/h; • Turnips and roots in general from 4.000 to 10.000 Kg/h. Piece remover with square mesh belt Also ideal for: roots and turnips. The piece-removing machine is used for separating broken and product waste, and a pre-calibration. The product is fed by...

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