Autoclave for packaging R&D

TERRA Food-Tech® autoclaves, retorts or canning pressure cookers are designed for the sterilization and pasteurization of canned food using a temperature probe placed in a product sample. This leads to a perfect control of the process while keeping the organoleptic target values and minimizing possible changes in the nutritional characteristics of the finished food product.

TERRA Food-Tech® compact retorts can both sterilize and pasteurize food products in cans, glass and plastic containers. It is a tool developed to improve the production capacity of small food producers and to facilitate R&D testing and quality control of the food and packaging industry.

Competitive advantages:

• Prevents container breakage or deformation thanks to counterpressure function.

• Designed to achieve high productivity for small food producers.• Perfect control of the thermal cooking process thanks to it's flexible heart probe.

• Fast cooling function available to avoid food damage.

• Advanced sterilization cycle optimization (direct control over Fo and Po values).

• Respects organoleptic and nutritional characteristics of the product.

• Includes flexible heart probe and cap drilling set for optimal parameters control.

• Outstanding safety features.

• Easy to use colour touchscreen with 50 different programs available.

Intended uses:

• Sterilization or pasteurization of finished products.

• R&D laboratories of the food and packaging industry.

• Industrial pilot batch sterilization.

TERRA Food-Tech® is a brand of Raypa, a spanish company founded 50 years ago highly specialized in small format autoclaves for the sterilization and pasteurization of preserved food and the packaging industry. The direct contact for many years with the food industry was transformed into the Raypa R&D department into new efficient equipment with unique characteristics for these customers so that the small producer can develop their own products with the utmost care and quality.

All TERRA Food-Tech® autoclaves are designed and manufactured in our Barcelona facilities.