Thanks to decades of field experience, Italy-headquartered Tropical Food Machinery has become a global leader in the field of fruit processing machinery.
Founded in the late 1970s by a pioneering Italian entrepreneur, today the company boasts an operating branch in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, two-fruit processing plants located in the north of the country, as well as a sales office in Costa Rica, liaison offices in India, and across the Asia-Pacific and West Africa regions.
As the fruit market is set to account for nearly 5 percent of world GDP by 2030, with much of this remarkable growth taking place in the emerging markets of Asia, Middle East and Africa, the company remains firm in its commitment to expand its operation abroad. “Rising demand for fruit worldwide represents an unparalleled opportunity to spur innovation, employment and prosperity,” said Stefano Concari, the company’s general director.
Tropical Food Machinery’s knowhow can significantly contribute to this process. With a corporate philosophy revolving around the notions of flexibility and versatility, the firm can manufacture any type of plant for the industrial process of tropical, deciduous fruit and tomato producing several finished products like nectars, natural juices, concentrated juices, purée, chopped pulps, fruit in syrup and juice, ketchup, sauces, jams.
This allows Tropical Food Machinery to meet the needs of a wide range of clients, from family-owned businesses to large-scale industrial producers.
Tropical Food Machinery constantly seeks to identify the most appropriate solution in any particular case, being fully cognizant that customers’ needs depend on a wide range of factors – such as geography, ready access to market, and an effective supply chain.
Tropical Food Machinery’s large-scale industrial lines are particularly suitable for processing such products.
The firm’s extraction line for pineapple – featuring input capacity from 1,000kg up to 20,000kg per hour – ensures excellent yield of extraction through the combined action of the peeling machines, which remove almost all the bark and peel, and the pressing machines, which extract the juice from the pulp.
More recently, the company has been awarded the International FoodTec Award for pioneering development in terms of innovation, sustainability and efficiency by the Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft – German Agricultural Society and its specialist partners.
The renowned technology prize was awarded to 20 innovative projects from the international food and supplier industry. Tropical won the Silver category thanks to its recently patented automatic banana peeler Cerere 6000.
The prize proves the growing commitment of Tropical Food Machinery in the promotion of sustainability through the development of high energy efficiency machinery. A significative example is the renewed version of the rotating beaters extractor Artemide, a modular machine capable of satisfy a wide range of production capacities.
Artemide is designed to be easy to maintain and efficient according to the fruit processed. Notably, the new design of the beaters guarantees a complete cleaning of the stone, avoiding to break it and allowing more waste reduction. The machine is ideal for all the types of fruit with stones and seeds such as Kaew Mungkorn, Passion Fruit, Mango, Mangosteen.
