This filling & seaming monoblock is suitable for canned viscous fluid such as paste, sauce, jam, milk, honey, grease and product with short fiber or particles in cylindrical containers-aluminum or metal tins/cans. It consists of filling machine, tin seamer, synchronous conveying and PLC control system.
| PRODUCT NAME: |
Double concentrated tomato paste
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| CONTAINERS: |
Tin cans, size 1/10, 1/5, ½, 4/4, 2.2 kg and tube |
| CONTAINERS FEATURES |
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| External appearance |
Clean, without defects |
| Internal appearance |
Clean, without defects |
| Cover/seal/seaming |
Regular / normal |
| Coding & Information |
Easy to read and exact |
| Label / lithography |
No defects and exact |
| Vacuum cm Hg |
Not less than 20; 10 for 1/10 and 2.2 kg |
Tins only, 5% + /- |
| Cans net weight according CEE |
70, 140, 400, 850, 2200 g.;140 g. for tubes |
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| PRODUCT FEATURES |
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| OR -Optical residue (°Brix) |
Minimum 28 |
+/- 5% |
| DR -Dry residue (after oven) |
28-30 |
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| Sugar ratio as % of D.R. |
Better than 40 |
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| Acidity ratio as % of D.R. |
Lower than 10 |
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| Volatile acidity as % of D.R. |
Lower than 0,4 |
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| Ph at 20°C |
4.2 - 4.45 |
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| Howard mould count |
< 60 % of positive fields (R.O. 7.5 at 25°C) |
Italy spec. only |
| Howard mould count |
< 40 % of positive fields (R.O. 8.5 at 25°C) |
UK and others |
| Howard mould count |
< 20 % of positive fields (R.O. 8.5 at 25°C) |
USA and CANADA |
| Mineral insoluble impurities |
< 0.1 % of D.R. |
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| Bostwick for cold break |
8-10 cm (12,5°Brix, for 30 seconds at 25°C) |
+/- 10% |
| Bostwick for hot break |
4 - 7 cm (12,5°Brix, for 30 seconds at 25°C) |
+/- 10% |
| Screen mesh into the finisher |
0.8 mm (pieces of skin, seeds, black points shall the absent) |
| NaCl (total salts) |
Max. 1 – 1.1 % |
| Smell |
Typical of tomatoes |
| GARDNER colour |
a/b > 1.9 (at 6.2 °Brix) |
| Taste |
Typical |
| Microbiological features |
Stable after incubation at 32°C for 14 days |
| Guaranteed product life |
2 years |