FACILITIES
The Pasta Production Plant
The pasta production plant can produce around 72,000 tons of pasta annually. The plant has 5 automated pasta production lines, 2 for long cut and 3 for short cut pasta products.
Mixing, Kneading and Shaping
- nside the pasta press, semolina is mixed with suitable amount of filtered water.
- The mixture is kneaded in a vacuum kneader to eliminate air from the dough.
- The dough, through a compression screw, is initially dispensed in the pasta dies 'filters for filtration and finally in the pasta dies shapers for shaping.
Long - cut Pasta Drying
- The shaped dough turns into multiple pasta strains.
- Pasta is spread onto sticks and is transferred to the pre-dryer.
- Pasta remains around 45 minutes in the pre - dryer where temperature reaches 70°C and is transferred to the dryer.
- Pasta remains from 6 to 10 hours in the dryer where temperature exceeds 85° C and is transferred to the cooler.
- Pasta remains around 30 minutes in the cooler where the temperature drops to 25° C and is transferred to the work-in-process storage silos.
- Pasta is stored at different floors in the work-in-process storage silos and is transferred to the remove and cut unit.
- Pasta is removed from the sticks and is cut to its final length in the remove and cut unit and is transferred to the appropriate packaging line’s dosage system
Short-cut Pasta Drying
- The shaped dough is cut by a cutting disk unit mounted underneath the die and obtains its final form.
- Pasta falls into a conveyor belt and is transferred to the pre-dryer.-Pasta remains around 5 minutes in the pre-dryer where temperature reaches 100°C and is transferred to the dryer.
- Pasta remains around 4 hours in the dryer where temperature exceeds 85°C and is transferred to the cooler.
- Pasta remains around 10 minutes in the cooler where the temperature drops to 25°C and is transferred to the work-in-process storage silos.
- Pasta is stored in different work-in-process storage silos and is transferred to the appropriate packaging line’s dosage system
Packaging, Boxing and Palletizing
- The packaging line’s dosage system sets package’s desired net weight.
- Pasta is packed and heat sealed in the suitable packaging film.
- Pasta packages pass through a weight control machine (detects and rejects packages that do not meet weight specifications), though a metal detector (detects and rejects packages that may contain pieces of metal) and through a batch coding machine (prints with ink on the packaging film the product’s batch code).
- Pasta packages are boxed into cartons.
- Cartons are sealed and stacked on pallets.
- Pallets are wrapped and transferred to the warehouse.
