Tomato Processing Plant

Tomato Processing Plant is a generic name for all the processing plants which take Tomatoes as input raw material. The outputs of a Tomato processing plant could be many, like Tomato Paste Plant, Tomato Puree Plant Tomato Sauce Plant, Tomato Juice Plant, etc.Tomato Sauce / Ketchup is a common output of processed tomatoes. Capacity of the plant ranges from 500 kgs per hour to 5,000 kgs per hour of tomatoes. This plant includes the following machinery: Washer (for thorough washing of tomatoes) Inspection Conveyor (for manual inspection and sorting of tomatoes)Tomato is processed into many products such as ketchup, paste, sauce, puree, soup, juice, and canned tomatoes. Considerable amounts of waste are generated after the tomato is processed. These wastes are sources of bioactive compounds that contribute to human healthFor processing tomato paste, tomato should have uniform ripening which present homogeneous and intense color, high solids content (4.7 < Brix <5.5), low content of peel and seeds and pH around 4.3.