Optimize your fruit and vegetable production process
Global production of fresh and processed fruits and vegetables has doubled in the last thirty years. The applications are multiple: from the transfer of raw harvests (transfer of bunches of grapes) to the manufacture of processed products such as tomato sauce, compotes and fruit and vegetable purees.
PCM pumps make it possible to best adapt to the requirements of these markets. Resistant to abrasion and corrosion, they also ensure a high level of hygiene. With different construction materials, they make it possible to adapt to the hygiene constraints of different industries (food contact and hygienic design).
PCM pumps have a low overall lifecycle cost. Easy to install and maintain, robust and versatile, they are suitable for pumping liquid or viscous products.
PCM Moineau™ pumps preserve the structure, texture and nutritional values of fruits and vegetables. Thanks to the design of the eccentric rotor pump, and the in-house manufacture of the PCM rotors and stators, the control of tightening makes it possible to preserve the texture of fragile fluids, by limiting internal leaks and therefore shear, and ensures that the pieces are respected.
Challenges in fruit and vegetable production process
Typical applications for transfer and processing
Transfer of fruits and vegetables for processing
Application examples: transfer of fruit puree/jams, tomato paste, grape bunches, marzipan, pea fibre.
Raw or pre-treated products are transported to processing sites, where PCM Moineau ™ progressive cavity pumps transfer these products without altering or degrading them. They pump fragile, fibrous or abrasive products, while maintaining a stable and continuous flow.
Fruit and vegetable puree transfer
Application examples: transfer of tomato pulp or transfer of chestnut puree.
The PCM HyCare™ pumps respect the texture of the tomato pieces. They transfer the fresh tomato pulp with pieces just after heat treatment. The Moineau™ technology, thanks to its capsulism (non-deformable cell with a constant displacement), respects tomato pieces, weakened by pasteurization, during the transfer of the pulp.
The PCM HyCare™ pump can be used to empty IBCs (Intermediate Bulk Containers) containing fruit compotes, jams, chestnut creams and fibre-enriched purees. It allows you to maintain a certain pressure while benefiting from a hygienic design.
Typical applications for fruits and vegetables
Transfer of cooked vegetables
The PCM Hyfeed™ pumps with their hygienic design and innovative shaft line without sheathed joints transfer frozen products made from plain or cooked vegetables. They also allow the transfer of vegetable peels and scraps. The capsulism of the PCM Moineau™ pump ensures perfect respect for the cooked pieces of vegetables.
Injection and dosing in jams or purees
Application examples: Adding liquid sugar, pectin, lemon juice, liquid dyes, or probiotics to existing fruit and vegetable blends.
These different products require precise, regular and continuous dosing. Thanks to their accuracy (1%), Lagoa dosing pumps are able to perform this function.
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PCM Hycare™
Ideal for sensitive applications in the food industry.
Features a flexible titanium connecting rod and stainless steel body, ensuring a design without a retention area. Ideal for sensitive applications in the food industry. Meet European and US regulations (EC 1935/2004 and FDA).
Delasco™ DX
Ideal for pumping high-density, corrosive, shear-sensitive, brittle, viscous, multiphase, gaseous and crystallizing fluids.
Mixes and fills ingredients such as fruit pieces, fruit and vegetable wedges, abrasive products such as lentils or diced tomatoes. Its nitrile tube is certified for food contact.
PCM EcoMoineau™ C
Transfer a wide range of viscous, loaded or abrasive products.
Made of stainless steel, it meets the requirements of suitability for food contact and is resistant to corrosion.
PCM Easyfeed
Transfer viscous and heterogeneous products.
Suitable for the fruit and vegetable food markets: pea fibers, tomato concentrate, co-products such as vegetable peels. Designed in compliance with food-grade recommendations and requirements. Meet European and US regulations (EC 1935/2004 and FDA)
PCM Hyfeed
Ensures the transfer of highly viscous fluids.
Ensures the transfer of highly viscous fluids, heterogeneous with or without particles, pasty or even sticky and bacteriological sensitive. Winner of the Hygienic Design Award by the European Hygienic Engineering & Design Group (EHEDG). Meet European and US regulations (EC 1935/2004 and FDA)
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For the Food, Cosmetics & Healthcare industry
To best meet your requirements for accuracy, ingredient loss, structural maintenance, productivity and ease of cleaning, PCM offers a variety of technologies, including customized solutions that are compatible with existing systems.
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