Complete Potato Chip Line, 1990, 250 kg/h Capacity

Description

  1. Overview
    1. Capacity: 250 kg/hour
    2. All machines year 1990 or newer
    3. Line is not currently in production
    4. Line was in full operation when it was traded against delivery of a new potato processing line
  2. Condition
    1. Very good condition; some parts are new
  3. Infeed Section
    1. Item 1: Newly constructed equipment
    2. Item 1a: Vertical screw destoner
    3. Item 1b: Batch peeler
    4. Item 1c: Electrical control panel
    5. Item 1d: Roller inspection belt with side platform
    6. Item 1f: Conveyor elevator
  4. Slicing and Washing
    1. Item 2: Slicing unit and drum washer integrated into one machine
    2. Item 3: Drum washer and dewatering belt
  5. Blanching
    1. Item 4: Blancher
    2. Item 1g: Steam boiler for blancher (local required to heat the blancher)
  6. Frying
    1. Item 5: Dewatering fryer infeed vibrator
    2. Item 6: Fryer belt with paddles; the fryer is the heart of the potato chips production process; this unit is executed with an internally placed heat exchanger; the heat exchanger is heated with use of thermal oil that is heated in the thermal oil heater (item 16)
    3. Fryer outfeed with top belt
    4. Fryer outfeed belt
    5. Item 7: Oil daytank; this machine/unit is going to be manufactured new
    6. Item 8: Defatting belt; this machine/unit is going to be produced new
  7. Weighing and Packaging
    1. Item 9: Bucket elevator
    2. Item 10: Two in-line weighers to weigh the finished product into predetermined batches; these batches are packed into individual bags in the ffs machine, which is placed underneath
    3. Item 11: Two packaging machines; form, fill and seal machines to pack finished chips into small bags, reducing transport damage to the product
  8. Conveying and Pack-Off
    1. Item 12: Transverse belt
    2. Item 13: Conveyor
    3. Item 14: Rotating pack-off table
  9. Oil and Heating
    1. Item 15: Two oil storage tanks
    2. Item 16: Two thermal oil heaters; these thermal oil heaters are used to heat up the fryer with use of thermal as intermediate heat transport oil; only one of the thermal oil heaters needs to be used during the production
  10. Shipping
    1. Shipping: about 4 or 5 40-foot containers