The market demands a packaging technology that’s more and more similar to natural products.

Traditional forms of packaging such as canning, asepton, drums or frozen goods, are giving way to aseptic packaging, which allows a substancial reduction in steralization time, which in turn means an increase in the retention of nutrients and an increase in flavour while guaranteeing healthy food.

In addition it’s ready to serve because it’s stored at room temperature. All this means, that as well as a higher quality product, there is also a reduction in energy costs both in the processing and filling and in the transport and storage.

These days, ho and catering companies as well as the big food companies that use fruit and vegetables as ingredients for their products, increasingly demand aseptic packaging in 5 kilo forms and above.

On the other hand, fruit and vegetable producing companies such as HUDISA Co-operative, which started life as a producer and packer of fresh strawberries, found that they had to eliminate the excess fruit so as to regulate the market price.

Faced with this problem, HRS Spiratube proposed the aseptic industrial processing and packaging of the fruit so as to be able to offer it as raw material for those sectors using fruit as a base, such as milk products, cakes, baby food and prepared dishes.

HRS Spiratube offers a processing system for particles, creams, concentrates and those without peptine which was previously wasted. This offered the co-operative an opportunity for a new business and an added value that was brought about by the technology of HRS Spiratube.

Within this technology the corregated tube heat exchangers are outstanding, as well as the piston pump for particles, which guarantees the structure of the product so that it doesn’t break or crystalize.

The UNICUS® dynamic scraped surface heat exchanger is also outstanding for the production of purées and concentrates, products with high viscosity, where the alternating movement avoids the accumulation of the product on the wall of the tube, allowing it to work continuously without stopping to clean it.

After the sterilization and cooling of the product, the aseptic filler of HRS Spiratube packs the sterile product for the industry, avoiding any form of contamination.

Another example of this type of process is the plant supplied to Cremofruit, where work is carried out on various kinds of fruit, such as peaches, apricots and plums, processing creams and pulps. These products are aseptically packaged in bags that avoid their oxidation, keeping all their properties and ready for use at any moment.

Not only fruit based products are aseptically processed and packaged; we have products such as pasteurised orange juice, with benefits to health that are basically the same as refrigerated fresh orange juice.

The Cooperative Agraria Naranjera Los Alcores acquired an HRS Spiratube pasteurization and aseptic packaging plant for its orange juice.

With the use of UNICUS® in the ingredients industry it`s possible to process and type of formula, and with the piston pump it`s also possible to process any type of particle structure. Aseptically packaged and stored, HRS Spiratube gives the fruit, vegetable and ingredient industry a new dimension in its business potential.