Tropical Food Machinery is an international company with two headquarters in Italy and Brazil, leading in the global field of fruit processing machinery. The company currently has liaison offices in India, Asia-Pacific and West African regions. Thanks to the experience acquired over the years, Tropical Food Machinery designs and manufactures complete processing lines for the industrial process of tropical and continental fruit, producing natural juices, pulps, concentrates, sauces, and jams using the most advanced technologies.
The company’ success over the years is certainly due to the pineapple processing plants: Tropical Food Machinery can vaunt dozens of active plants all over the world, with machines entirely designed around the pineapple juice extraction. Every plant includes the entire product processing, from the fruit receiving to the aseptic filling, and can process up to 20 tons of fresh fruit per hour.
The company production also includes the development of multifruit processing lines. These systems combine different extraction machines, each one dedicated to a specific type of fruit – whether with thick skin like pineapple, or stone fruit as mango or even fruit with seeds like maracuja. In this way, it is possible to use a single multifruit line for the processing of different types of products according to the harvesting season, guaranteeing a continuous productivity at high efficiency.
Every production plant is designed and built in-house to satisfy a wide range of multipurpose technological solutions: mobile small-size plants can be used by producers or farmers in decentralized areas, diminishing management costs and generating local economy; large-scale plants can meet high production demands, optimizing energy consumption and expanding the producers’ market.
The processing lines include the use of aseptic filling, a technology that guarantees a shelf-stable product at room temperature (without the need for a cold chain) and is confirmed as an economical and tested solution for several types of products.
Tropical Food Machinery offers a range of complete aseptic filling units that vary depending on the customer’s marketing and logistics needs: all filling machines are equipped with cutting-edge instruments for the automatic management of aseptic filling cycles and product quality control.
In R&D, an important achievement of Tropical Food Machinery is the development of Aroma Recovery System, an innovative and compact automatic machine that can be integrated into new or existing production plants. The system does not involve waste of juice and can extract and concentrate natural aromas and essences that would, otherwise, be lost in the juice extraction process.
The extracted aromas can be reintroduced into the product during the final processing stages, improving its characteristics, or it can be sold separately with an exceptionally fast return on investment. Indeed, high-quality natural flavours can command a considerable price for use markets such as food, beverage, and cosmetics.
