How to Make Bottled Fruit Juice
Bottled fruit juice has the characteristic of portable, rich in nutrition, replenish the water which is necessary for the human body. So it is a trend to proceed fruit into juice for fruit beverage factory. So if you want to run one bottled juice plant, what do you need to prepare?
I. Select Raw Materials
There are two materials that can be made into bottled fruit juice: the first use fresh fruits as raw material to make 100% NFC fruit juice. It is suitable for medium and large scale fruit beverage factory. Because if you make 100% NFC juice, you need to do a big investment, have a large quantity of high-quality fresh fruits as your source of raw materials and a stable supply chain. But NFC juice also has a much higher profit than reconstituted fruit juice; The second method is that you can buy concentrated fruit juice or juice powder from concentrated juice factory, then use them as raw materials, dilute with water and some other ingredients to make into reconstituted juice. It is suitable for a start-up business and with low investment and capacity. Reconstituted juice production is still the mainstream bottled juice production method in developing countries because of the low entry barrier.
II. Apply for Business License, Build Workshop And Recruit Employees
Firstly you need to learn about what license you need to get if you want to open one fruit juice processing factory, then apply food production license and business license to the local government. After that you can buy or rent land to build the workshop, the juice processing equipment supplier will provide you equipment layout according to your workshop size. At last, you need to recruit operators, which need one plant manager, Mechanical engineers and electrical engineers, operators.
III. Choose Processing Equipment
After you decide which material you want to use, then you can source juice processing equipment from food and beverage equipment supplier. Here we take the production of reconstituted juice as an example and explain to you which equipment is needed.
Blending tank
Blending tanks also call mixing tank, the main function is to mix concentrated fruit juice, flavor ingredients, antioxidants, sugar and water in a certain ratio to dilute into drinkable juice. To increase efficiency and continuity of production, we usually equip two blending tanks. The blending process is also divided into cold blending and hot blending, hot blending temperature is about 50-60℃, which is higher efficiency than cold blending; Cold blending is under ambient temperature and can reduce the loss of VC in the juice.
Sterilizing, homogenizing and degassing unit
These three equipment are integrated together. The sterilizer kills the microorganism in juice; The homogenizer further emulsifies juice and make it more even; The vacuum degasser can remove the air in the juice and makes the juice has a longer shelf life. We will use different sterilizer(Plate sterilizer or tubular sterilizer) to process according to juice characteristics (PH value, viscosity, whether it contains juice particles).
Juice filling system
Reconstituted juice will use hot filling technology(85-89℃) to fill into ribbed PET bottles or glass bottles. This filling system is mainly composed of bottle washing parts, juice filling and capping parts, juice recovery system. The machine capacity is 2000BPH-30000BPH available for clients’ different speed requirements.
Bottled juice tilt sterilizing conveyor
The bottled juice tilt conveyor can make bottled juice tilted and use juice itself temperature to secondary sterilize bottle caps. The general sterilizing process is 80℃for 20-40S.
Juice pasteurizing cooling tunnel
This bottled juice pasteurizing and cooling tunnel has four sections, preheating section from 80℃ to 95℃, pasteurizing section with 95℃ holding for 20-30 minutes, pre-cooling section from 95℃ to 60℃, cooling section to 30℃. So it has two functions, one is secondary pasteurizing, the other cooling bottled juice to 30℃ for end packaging.
Bottled juice label machine
Juice bottles mostly adopt to sleeve label machine or non-dry stick label machine. Bottle label capacity is 1-200 bottles/min, servo motor to control label feeding to ensure high precision.
Bottled juice packing machine
There are two packing style for bottled juice, one is packing into shrinkage film, the other is packing into carton box.
CIP system
CIP station is mainly used for cleaning pipes, pumps, juice tanks and filling machine without assembling the machines. This station enhances the efficiency of the whole production line and can guarantee the sanitary of the end products.
Auxiliary equipment
This includes RO water treatment system, boiler to generate steam for heating and sterilizing juice, cooling water tower and air compressor.
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