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Tropical Fruit Juice

The quality and flavour of the extracted juices depend on ripeness, processing and storage conditions. They are susceptible to degradation during thermal processing and require capture and recovery of volatiles during the evaporation stage, in order to maintain high quality. SPX has extensive experience in the processing of a wide range of tropical fruit juices, including: Pineapple Passion fruit Mango Guava Papaya Tomato (considered as a tropical fruit, due to its physical properties)

SPX can supply process equipment for all processing stages for both large and small processing operations.We can alsocarry out plant upgrades and modifications to existing systems in order to adapt to changing market needs. Capability includes the following main process stages:

• Fruit handling
  
  • Reception
  • Inspection/washing
    
• Juice extraction
  
• Juice processing
  
  • Juice finishing
  • Centrifugation
  • Homogenisation
  • Membrane filtration
  • Pasteurisation
  • De-aeration
  • Concentration
  • Essence recovery
  • Concentrate post-treatment
    
• Packaging

• • Aseptic
  • Non-aseptic
    
• By-products