With the ever growing demand for ready-to-cook fruit and vegetables, businesses have started to review their processes for achieving greater efficiency and higher quality standards. PND, a leading manufacturer of fruit processing machinery, has invested in innovation and quality to develop new high-performance operating systems.
The company has developed a machine used exclusively for pumpkins, the vegetable most synonymous with autumn, but not just in autumn.
The AIRCUBE dicer, which processes 6 units per minute, is designed for semi-automatic cutting into cubes of various sizes, offering a robust and
precise solution. With its reinforced structure and cross-blade system, the machine guarantees a clean uniform cut, even on irregularly sized fruit.
The operator manually loads the pumpkin into the dedicated housing, where the push mechanism guides the product through the cutting grid and turns it into chunks.
The machine is equipped with inter- changeable blades, allowing the cube size to be changed according to production requirements, ready to be packaged or further processed.
This pumpkin chunker tackles one of the most complex problems in the industry: how to ensure uniform cutting of a vegetable with a hard skin, compact and fibrous flesh and often irregular and elongated dimensions
The easy-to-clean and extremely compact machine measures less than one metre and is made entirely of AISI 304 stainless steel. All parts in contact with the product are certified for food use, ensuring proper safety and hygiene at every stage of the process.
In a sector that is increasingly concerned with optimising the use of raw materials and reducing waste, the AIRCUBE chunker is an essential tool in improving productivity and increasing the level of line automation. It can be combined with the manually fed PL1DZ peeling machine, which carries out external peeling and processes 4 to 6 fruits per minute.
It has achieved strong sales in Europe, especially in Italy, France, Spain, Austria and Switzerland, as well as in the United States.
PND has built its reputation on a rare blend of technological expertise and genuine human attention an approach that has made the company a reference point in the fruit-processing machinery sector. For more than 25 years, its growth has been guided by an unwavering commitment to listening.
Customer feedback is not treated as a formality but as a strategic asset: every insight, every suggestion, every challenge shared by clients becomes an opportunity to refine performance and design machines that respond precisely to real production needs.
This culture of attentive dialogue is embodied daily by PND’s team.
Their professionalism goes far beyond technical competence. It is expressed in the ability to understand the nuances of each customer’s workflow, to translate expectations into concrete solutions, and to accompany clients with clarity and reliability throughout the entire process.
Flexibility is another hallmark of the company: whether adapting a ma- chine to a specific processing line or developing tailor‑made configurations, PND’s staff consistently demonstrate a pragmatic mindset that turns complexity into efficiency.
The result is a range of machines recognized worldwide as indispensable partners in supermarkets, restaurants, catering facilities, and industrial processing plants.
Technicians and operators appreciate not only the robustness and precision of PND’s technology, but also the company’s capacity to stand beside them with competence, responsiveness, and long-term vision. Choosing PND means relying on a partner that listens, understands, and delivers.
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