PASTEURISERS
Intercaps Filling Systems : Suppliers of bottle and can tunnel pasteurisers and flash pasteurisers.
Intercaps Ltd are suppliers of plastic or metallic belt tunnel pasteurisers. The models are designed with the highest quality components for the best in sanitary design, ease of maintenance, low operating and maintenance costs, and can process glass bottles or metal cans. Our pasteurisers convey the product through a controlled temperature environment using an external drive system. Heat transfer is achieved through water sprays delivered over the product by spray headers spanning the width of the pasteuriser.
Intercaps Ltd are also suppliers of flash pasteuriser
for beer and fruit juices
Flash pasteurisation is an alternative means of pasteurisation, typically employed for dairy produce, fruit juice and related products such as tea, and occasionally beer. Within the beer industry, flash pasteurisation is more likely to be used for keg lines than for can or bottle systems. Flash pasteurisation works by rapidly heating a beverage to a temperature of around 80°C prior to the filling and capping process. The beverage will remain at this temperature for less than 20 seconds prior to being rapidly cooled via another heat exchanger. This process has some space and cost advantages due to handling the beverage in bulk before filling. The major disadvantage of flash pasteurisation when compared to tunnel pasteurisation is that it requires sterile filling and sterile containers. Keeping the containers and filling system sterile is complex, difficult and expensive. By comparison, a tunnel pasteuriser processes the beverage once it is sealed in its container; this way it is certain that there are no contamination issues and shelf life can be guaranteed. For this reason, the vast majority of beer bottles and cans continue to pass through a tunnel pasteuriser.
