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Campesato post-harvest vegetable handling equipment

Campesato post-harvest vegetable handling equipment
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Campesato post-harvest vegetable handling equipment

Product catalog summary
Introduction
Alutec Group, with over 30 years of experience in the aluminium profile market, specializes in industrial automation. Their mission is to build strong customer relationships, understand needs, solve problems, and recommend cost-effective solutions. Alutec Food, leveraging over 60 years of CAMPESATO know-how, designs and manufactures machinery for processing various fruit and vegetable products.
Consulting, Design, and Construction
The company offers consulting, design, and construction services to meet diverse customer requirements, aiding in business development.
Product Range and Capabilities
Alutec Food provides a wide range of machinery for processing fruits and vegetables, including grading systems, processing plants for garlic, carrots, green beans, onions, and potatoes, and special machines like destemmers and hydraulic presses.
Receiving and Pre-Processing
Key equipment includes bin dumpers, receiving tanks, pre-washing tanks, conveyor belts with hoppers, stone removers, and soil removers. These machines are designed to handle various capacities and types of produce, ensuring efficient pre-processing.
Processing Equipment
Processing machines include barrel washers, bubbling washers, polish washers with brushes, brusher drippers, and piece removers with square mesh belts. These machines are designed to clean, inspect, and prepare produce for further processing.
Grading Systems
Grading equipment includes vibrating grid graders, roller graders, and piece removers with vibrating channels. These systems sort produce by size and remove unsuitable pieces, ensuring quality control.
Container Filling Systems
Alutec offers single and double bin filling systems, bag filling machines for 5-10-25 kg bags, and jumbo bag filling systems. These systems are designed to handle large volumes of produce gently and efficiently.
Conclusion
Alutec Group's extensive experience and comprehensive range of machinery make it a leader in the agri-food machinery sector, providing reliable and efficient solutions for processing a wide variety of fruits and vegetables.
Overview
The document provides detailed information on various specialized machines used in the processing of agricultural products such as green beans, carrots, chicory, broccoli, onions, garlic, and potatoes. It outlines the specifications, estimated production capacities, and functionalities of each machine, as well as the end-of-line systems for packaging and palletizing.
1. Hydrocooler
This machine is used to cool products by showering them with ice-cold water. It is suitable for long, thin products like green beans, with a production capacity ranging from 3,000 to 15,000 kg/h. It is also ideal for cooling carrots, chicory, and broccoli, with varying capacities.
2. Even Flow Hopper
Designed to automatically receive, hold, and dose products to downstream machines, this hopper prevents continuous start and stop of upstream machines. It is suitable for almost all fruit and vegetable products, with a capacity of 1,000 to 30,000 kg/h.
3. Hydraulic Press for Waste
This machine compacts leaves and stems from onion or garlic processing, reducing the volume by 10 to 50 times. It produces compacted blocks with a cross-section of about 30 cm per side, with a capacity of 30 to 60 blocks per hour.
4. Processing Plants
The document details various processing plants for carrots, potatoes, garlic, onions, and green beans, each with specific machines for receiving, pre-processing, processing, and grading. Machines include barrel washers, roller belts, stone removers, air peelers, and more.
5. End of Line Systems
Alutec provides automation solutions for the palletizing stage, including Cartesian palletizing systems, stackers, and unstackers. These systems are designed to handle different types of products and can be customized with optional modules for full automation.
Conclusion
The document highlights the importance of choosing the right automation to maintain high efficiency in processing and packaging agricultural products. Alutec offers tailored solutions to meet diverse needs in layout, flexibility, and production efficiency.
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Agri-Food Machinery

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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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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 End of line System Alutec Even Flow hopper pag. 20 Hydraulic press for waste pag. 20 Carrot processing plant pag. 22-23 Jumbo bag filling system pag. 18 Special machines...

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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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