Innovative food processing equipment for better flavor

The VARO food processing equipment is an innovative solution for vacuum cooking and cooling of heat sensitive products, such as fruit preparations, jam, baby food etc. The horizontal processing tank (HPT) cooks, mixes and cools your product in one efficient and gentle batch process. This process helps maintain the natural structure, flavor and color of the product.

VARO’s horizontal processing tank (HPT) ensures:

• Superior product quality (flavor, structure and color)
• Minimum use of additives - clean label
• Gentle handling of sensitive products
• Flexible batch technology
• Full product traceability
• Low power consumption
• Cleaning in place (CIP) system
• Aroma recovery
• Multiple processes (cook, mix and cool) in one unit
• Vacuum cooking
• Minimal Production Loss (2% max)

Uniform and effective cooker / cooler

The processing vessel uses both heating jackets and a steam heated coil agitator to cook and mix your products. This generates an even and efficient distribution of heat, which significantly shortens the cooking process and ensures gentle heating of the product.

The coil agitator gently mixes your product preserving the product structure. The coil itself functions as a heating/cooling device and has PEEK scrapers attached to the prevent product burn-ons.

The cooling process is as efficient as the cooking process using both jackets and coil. When the product is cooled down, it is easily unloaded by pressurizing the tank.

Watch a short video on how our horizontal processing tank (HPT) works

Find out in this video how the VARO HPT works

Flexible production of products based on fruits or vegetables

Batch production is flexible and allows you to continuously adjust your production. You can easily change from one recipe to another with minimal product loss or change the batch size. This enables you to have a versatile production line, which is always ready to meet the requirements of your customers.

Batch production also ensures full traceability of all your production batches, enabling you to easily identify specific batches.

VAROs cooker / cooler is also a flexible system itself. It consists of a number of standard elements, but can be adapted to the specific needs of our production line.

Test your product with our pilot plant

Rent VAROs innovative processing equipment and test the 500L pilot plant in your own production environment. Test your own recipes in the horizontal processing tank (HPT) and look for yourself what the processing vessel can do for your product with a flexible, consistent and batch based processing system.

Contact us to rent the pilot plant

Hygienic design or aseptic processing?

VAROs horizontal processing tank is a sanitary processing vessel, but can also be supplied as an aseptic solution. The aseptic cooker processes the product in a sterile environment, which increases its natural shelf life.

Do you need to produce in an aseptic process, please read more about our aseptic cooker / cooler here.