DESTONERS
Destoners for removing cores or seeds from stone and pome fruits.
Destoners are designed to efficiently and precisely remove cores, seeds, and stems from various fruits, as well as for separating stones and other debris from root vegetables as preliminary washing. These machines streamline the preparation process, ensuring that the final products meet modern standards and prepares them for further processing or packaging. This comprehensive guide explores the functionality and applications of destoners in the food industry.
What are destoners?
Destoners are specialized machines that automate the removal of unwanted cores, seeds, stems and stones from fruits and vegetables. Destoners and destemmers automate these tasks, reducing labor costs, minimizing waste, and improving the overall workflow consistency.
How destoners operate
Destoners for fruits precisely remove the core, pit, or seeds from stone fruits like peaches, cherries, plums, apricots, and even mangoes. These machines use mechanical methods to extract the core while minimizing damage to the fruit's flesh. The process involves aligning the fruit in a specific orientation, after which a plunger or blade removes the core or pit, leaving the fruit intact for further processing.
Additionally, auger destoners for vegetables are used to separate stones, debris, and other unwanted materials from root vegetables as pre-washing. These machines employ a screw-like auger mechanism that helps to wash and sort the produce, ensuring only clean and debris-free vegetables proceed to the next processing stage.
Benefits of using destoners
- Efficiency: Automating the core and seed removal process significantly speeds up production and reduces manual labor.
- Consistency: Destoners provide uniform results, ensuring that each fruit or vegetable is processed to the same standard.
- Waste Reduction: Precision in removing cores and stones minimizes product loss and waste, thereby increasing yield and profitability.
- Safety and Hygiene: Automated destoning reduces the need for manual handling, lowering the risk of contamination and maintaining high food safety standards.
Applications in the Food Industry
Destoners are used across different segments of the food industry:
- Fruit Processing: Commonly used for pitting stone fruits such as peaches, cherries, plums, and apricots, making them ready for canning, freezing, or further processing.
- Vegetable Processing: Auger destoners are essential for cleaning root vegetables like potatoes, carrots, and beets, to remove stones and debris.
- Snack Production: Pitted fruits are often used in snacks and confectioneries, where quality and consistency are crucial.
Partnering with FoodTechProcess for fruit and vegetable processing solutions
FoodTechProcess offers a range of destoning machines tailored to process different types of fruits or root vegetables. Our modern destoners with a robust design, ensure efficient, reliable, and precise removal of pits from fruits and debris from vegetables. Destoners reduce waste, improve operational efficiency.
The destoner lift machine is designed for pre-washing and transporting root vegetables such as potatoes, carrots, beets, and other similar vegetables. After rinsing, the auger destoner separates floating particles like leaves and stems in the receiving hopper, while the product is conveyed up to the discharge height using a screw lift.
- Allows you to separate stones, leaves from root vegetables
- Pre-washing of root vegetable crops
- Two functions in one unit: washing and transporting
- Spacious hopper/tub for loading the product
- Material: Stainless steel
- Principle of operation: Continuous mode
Fruit crushing mill, entirely made of AISI 304 stainless steel is suitable for fruit, vegetables and for many other products such as apples, pears, carrots, lemons and others; easy to use, high productivity. It can be supplied with one or more sieves (screens or riddles).
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- Productivity: 800 kg/h/ 1500 kg/h/ 3000 kg/h
- Engine power, kW: 1,35/ 2,1/ 2,6
- Hopper volume, l: 30/ 60/ 100
Compact, practical machine for your fruit processing needs. Capable of destoning cherries, apricots or plums. The price is for the destoner for cherries.
If you wish to purchase an additional sieve drum for apricots and plums, please send us an email at sales@foodtechprocess.com
- Material: Stainless steel
- Principle of operation: Continuous mode
The fruit destemming machine eliminates seeds and kernels from the fruit's core, preparing it for subsequent processing.
The cherry seeds separation machine has a high processing capacity ranging - from 200 to 300 kg of raw materials that can be loaded per hour (depending on the size of the cherries). It roughly equals to 720 processed berries per minute. This machine is perfect for small and medium-sized food enterprises and farms.
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Unbeatable price, universal application, high quality material, optional accessories available to suit many different products. Various sieves / screens available for different products.
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The fruit core processing equipment is designed for cleaning out the seeds, cores and debris that were previously removed from the fruits. For more information, send us a request.Â
The Destoner-pulper machine is designed for destoning and pulping stone fruit. Price depends on the fruit and production capacity.
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Semiautomatic production line for washing and destoning apples. Approximate capacity 1000 kg/h.
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The fruit pitting machine is intended for removing cores or pits from plums and apricots. Besides the fruits mentioned above, this device can be used for nectarines, peaches, etc. It can simultaneously cut fruits into several parts (two, four). The machine is perfect for use by small and medium-sized enterprises, and in farms.
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The mincer-destemmer is used for processing grapes. It comes in a stainless steel version.
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