Kroner Engineering Grunwald inline fruit mixer

The Grunwald integrated inline fruit mixer has been designed to keep the product feeding pipework as short as possible. The inline fruit mixing keeps the mixing process to a minimum during product changeover, reducing the loss of fruit and enabling faster changeover.

The technology is suitable for machines filling yoghurt with a fruit layer. In order to fill yoghurt with a fruit layer, a pre-filler for fruit as well as a main filler for stirred natural yoghurt is used.

To produce stirred fruit yoghurt, the pre-filler is used as a fruit dosing pump which accurately feeds the fruit preparation cycle by cycle to the filling station for the stirred natural yoghurt. The inline mixer equally mixes the fruit preparation in the yoghurt.

The percentage of fruit preparation can be changed on the operator panel of the cup-filling machine. The modified values are automatically stored in the recipe control.

Changeover from yoghurt with a fruit layer to stirred fruit yoghurt can either be carried out manually, which the company says takes approximately five minutes, or automatically by pushing a button on the touch panel, depending on the specification of the machine. A range of machines are available from a simple design up to a fully automatic CIP/SIP design.

The technology is designed to be used on flexible rotary-type and linear machines with frequent changeovers between various types of fruit. It is capable of production speeds of up to 12,000 cups per hour and can fill up to six types of fruit.