Cherry processing equipment

Crop guide · Cherry preprocessing

Start with the retained product

A cherry packhouse preserves small whole fruit, often with stems, while a processing line may intentionally remove stems and pits. Those are different specifications. UNITEC publishes cherry grading and crate-filling references. Its Rivoira film shows the layout of an installed sorting line; the gallery equipment photograph is a separate manufacturer installation reference.

Compare washing, trimming or peeling, cutting, sorting, dewatering and packaging below. Attributed manufacturer images explain equipment roles. General family references require the actual crop configuration and a representative trial.

Choose the finished-product route

Agree pre-cleaning, trimming, cutting and final-wash order for the incoming material and intended use. These routes are specification aids, not universal process settings.

Washing: retain small fruit and manage stems

Ask how the proposed wet handling separates loose leaves and debris while retaining the smallest cherry. Define whether cooling and washing are separate supplied duties. Trial transfers, stems, clusters and stop/restart; a generic leafy washer is not a confirmed cherry installation.

Trimming: choose stem-on or destemmed input deliberately

KRONEN

KRONEN manual preparation workstation. Use accepted cherry samples to define retained tissue and waste; this is not an automatic peeling or destemming system.

Stem-on retail fruit should bypass destemming. Ingredient routes need a separate destemmer and a defined stem-socket result. Specify skin retention; peeling is not a default cherry-preparation stage. Supported manual preparation is illustrated, not an automatic destemmer.

Cutting: use a dedicated pitting brief for ingredients

Whole fresh cherries bypass cutting. Pitted ingredients need supports and pitting tools matched to actual cherry size and stone condition. If halves or smaller pieces are wanted, define secondary cutting after pitting. The sorting film does not demonstrate pit removal.

Sorting: see how individual presentation enables grading

UNITEC Cherry Vision

UNITEC whole-cherry grading installation. Specify retained stems, classes and any proposed sensor package; this photograph does not demonstrate pitting.

UNITEC describes cherry quality selection and grading. The manufacturer gallery shows an installed electronic sorter, and the film exposes the UNICAL 200 cherry housing and parallel handling lanes. Specify defect classes and any proposed internal-quality sensor separately; neither a photograph nor testimonial establishes detection accuracy.

Dewatering: control free water before filling small packs

Check water around stems and pooled liquid after the planned hold and transfer. Trial supported drainage or a proposed air-removal stage with real fruit. Do not confuse drainage with hydrocooling, dehydrated-cherry production or a preservation process.

Packaging: compare crate filling with retail pack filling

UNITEC AC 301

UNITEC AC 301 semi-automatic crate-filling reference. Retail punnet filling and sealing are separate equipment choices.

The UNITEC AC 301 gallery photograph illustrates semi-automatic crate filling. It is not a retail punnet sealer. State the intended crate, punnet, bag or ingredient container; check portion control, drop height, stem entanglement and fruit damage at the actual filler.

See the installed cherry sorter and its parallel handling lanes

UNITEC shows a Rivoira Group cherry line and customer interview. The inspected machine view helps explain the scale and layout of whole-fruit grading. The gallery photos on this page show other manufacturer installation references. No customer testimonial, detection percentage or pit-removal claim is adopted.

Watch on YouTube ↗ · 1:30

Unitec Group · Official manufacturer footage

• Around 1:03: The view shows a UNICAL 200 cherry housing with parallel narrow handling lanes and access platforms.

Current manufacturer links and source identity were checked. Confirm the offered version and configuration separately from historical demonstration footage. Original English watch notes provide a text alternative; no full transcript is reproduced. Playback is on YouTube. No crop capacity, yield, cleaning, damage or shelf-life guarantee is inferred from the film.

Prepare a cherry equipment trial brief

1. Bring representative input: variety, maturity, size, incoming condition and seasonal variation.
2. Show accepted and rejected samples: retained skin, leaf, stem, head or cut form, useful rework and finished pack.
3. Record useful output: trim/peel loss, damage, fines, missed defects, free water and rejected packs.
4. Test interfaces: product supports, drops, screens, drainage, dose control, stops and restart.
5. Confirm supplied configuration: safe access, guards, tooling, water circuits, utilities, cleaning and training.

Prepare an equipment trial and quotation brief

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