Fruit processing line for Pacific Coast Producers
Pacific Coast Producers: pioneering fruit processing in the USA
Pacific Coast Producers is an Agricultural Cooperative owned by over 150 family farms located in central and northern California (USA), specialising in canning fruits and tomatoes for private brands throughout the world.
For over 50 years, PCP has been committed to growing, canning and supplying the finest canned fruits and tomatoes meeting brand requirements of final Customers while providing world-class service at a competitive price.
PCP company, with facilities in California and Oregon, creates products and ingredients that reflect passion and attention to quality and craftsmanship. PCP believes in making healthy, sustainable, economically friendly, and flavorful products.
The need of PCP: a cutting-edge fruit processing line
Back in July 2022, PCP was looking for a supplier with capability to design and deliver a turnkey fruit processing line for apples, pears and peaches, from bins dumping all the way to final product distribution to fillers and seamers for their Lodi (CA) facility.
The goal was to produce high-quality apple sauce that not only met the stringent USDA requirements for “grade A apple sauce” status but also achieved superior extraction yields exceeding 97%.
Pacific Coast Producers and CFT enhance fruit processing line
Following several preliminary meetings between the two teams to nail down the basic layout and general P&ID, in June 2023 CFT guided a delegation from PCP on a technical tour to a couple of Chilean facilities running successfully with CFT technology and achieving top-class products that are exported to the US as well as other countries.
The capacity to work on tailor-made projects, the portfolio of patented technical solutions, the high yields, and the outstanding quality of the final products convinced PCP that CFT was the right partner to design and build their new fruit processing line for Lodi (CA).
The CFT fruit processing line
The CFT line is composed of the following:
Fruit receiving and washing from bins
Apple and pear processing line for 25 tons per hour infeed featuring Giubileo extractors and Zenith enzyme deactivation system
Possibility to process peaches at 15 tons per hour
Patented apple sauce technology
Featuring fiber add-back system for increased yield in apple puree as well as apple sauce sweetening and distribution.
A versatile fruit processing line
The fruit processing line designed for PCP can process the following high-quality products:
s/s apple puree
s/s apple sauce (grade A)
s/s peach puree