food Marketing - Technology 2/2023
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Processing<br />
and extraction is fast, thanks to a large<br />
steam pipe, and mixing-and-lifting<br />
plates inside the vessel – a unique,<br />
patented design – ensure that as<br />
the vessel rotates at high speed, the<br />
vegetables are moved continuously for<br />
even steam exposure.<br />
The Eco steam peeler, launched in 2012,<br />
introduced sophisticated automation<br />
software to optimize steam usage and<br />
achieve similar throughput capacities<br />
with a smaller vessel. This machine<br />
is mostly used for peeling potatoes,<br />
but the advantages of its design – the<br />
round vessel, extra-large steam pipe,<br />
and high rotation speed – are also wellsuited<br />
to some types of vegetables,<br />
such as carrots and red beets. This is<br />
the ‘Formula 1’ model of steam peelers,<br />
unsurpassed in its performance, offering<br />
more than some processors need<br />
but the optimum solution for others.<br />
Post-peeling processes can also<br />
reduce waste<br />
TOMRA also supplies and integrates<br />
post-peeling equipment. To take care<br />
of dry peel separation and washing,<br />
the company has developed a number<br />
of different products for large and<br />
small vegetables, and for low and high<br />
capacities.<br />
The most commonly used of these<br />
products, the TOMRA 8/30 Brusher,<br />
has unique features for dry peel<br />
separation, wet peel separation,<br />
washing, quick and easy cleaning to<br />
remove potential sources of crosscontamination,<br />
and easy changeover<br />
to different vegetables. Another<br />
notable tool is the TOMRA Barrel<br />
Washer: handling vegetables more<br />
gently than other machines has made<br />
product damage during washing a<br />
thing of the past.<br />
This post-peeling equipment also<br />
improves sustainability. When<br />
wet-washing, water filtration (with<br />
a reusable rotary screen filter)<br />
reduces water consumption; with dry<br />
separation, water consumption at this<br />
stage of the process is eliminated.<br />
Processors who haven’t yet experienced<br />
TOMRA’s peeling solutions<br />
can trial them with examples of<br />
their own produce (or similar) at<br />
the company’s peeling process<br />
development laboratory. This is located<br />
in Ireland, but customers don’t have to<br />
visit in person: demonstrations can also<br />
be seen through live broadcasts made<br />
securely over the internet. It is here<br />
that TOMRA continues the research<br />
and development that will keep on<br />
bringing efficiency improvements<br />
to vegetable peeling, benefiting the<br />
profitability of processors and <strong>food</strong><br />
security of the planet.<br />
fmt<br />
Eamonn Cullen, <strong>Marketing</strong> Manager Peeling at TOMRA Food<br />
32 <strong>food</strong> <strong>Marketing</strong> & <strong>Technology</strong> • April <strong>2023</strong>