“The amazing synergy of the peeling of pineapple and its decomposition for the long-term sustainability of pineapples”

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With the growing concern of society about the environment and the expense of decomposition rises The catering industry is seeking ways to create lesser waste as well as more effective solutions to handle the garbage. Astra is an innovative peeler within Japan and produces peeling equipment for a variety of varieties of fruits. The company began a partnership together with the local decomposition producer to process the skins of pineapples. Ryo Takeshita who is the Astra’s sales manager, Astra expressed his views regarding this new change.

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“Consumers are able to purchase freshly peeled and sliced pineapple at less”

Ryo initially told the tale of how pineapple peelers came to be. “We typically see that the pineapples that are ready to eat are available in sealed small packages at the supermarkets. The ready-to-eat packaging is typically made in factories, and later transported to retailers. However, the issue is that the pineapple can be perishable. If it is stored on the shelf over a long period of time or if the temperature fluctuates while processing or transport, the taste of the fruit is diminished and the fruit can easily turn to begin to rot. This can lead to wasted food at the grocery shop, but also leads to complaints from consumers. As an innovator in peelers We began to think about ways to provide an easy solution to ensure consumers could consume fresh pineapple at a less. We came up with our series of pineapple peelers three years ago.”

“Factories could profit by reducing waste 40% and 60+% more yield”

“Most of the machines for peeling that are used in the big pineapple processing plants are typically a the traditional cutter, which is used to core and cut the cylinder-shaped pineapple. With this tool, nearly two thirds of the fruit is lost.” Ryo said, “In the other hand, our KA 750PM machine is capable of peeling over 200 fruit per hour, and reduce as much as 40% of the wasted material compared to the conventional machines. If you produce 100kg cut fruit per day, then the saving would be around $50,000 a year.

In response to questions about the technological power of the machine Ryo says, “The specialty is the blade peeler. Its blade is straight, razor-sharp, and thin. While turning the blade, it rotates in a polygonal manner and is always firmly pressed onto the surface of the fruit.” Ryo said. “Such blade peelers provides a number of advantages regarding peeling efficiency. For one, the fruit’s peeling surface is smoother. It results in less fruit waste as well as less juice drips. Due to the smoother surface, the fruit will have longer shelf-life and will keep fresh over a longer time. Furthermore, the straight-edged blade is faster and has high precision, which leads to an increase in yield.” Ryo added: “Only one person is required during the entire process of peeling. The results of our tests show that the Astra peeler produces more than 60% yield when as compared to conventional peeling techniques.”

“Thinner pineapple skins are a contributor to the sustainability of the industry”

“Sustainability is an incredibly popular conversation topic for discussion in Japan which is why we as a manufacturer with a unique approach consider ourselves responsible to contribute. We’re currently working with a decomposition machine company from Japan. They manufacture compact (capacity of around 30 to 100kg) food waste decomposer, which utilizes microorganisms. The advantage of this decomposer is the fact that food waste totally transforms into heat and water. As their machines are tiny and small, they’re often utilized at school food facilities smaller stores, as well as smaller food manufacturing facilities, that is completely shared together with ASTRA.”

“For pineapple, if using an old-fashioned corer this waste skin is extremely slim and heavy. With a decomposer that is powerful the process takes days or weeks to break down all this waste. Therefore, the consumer had to throw out the waste food. In Japan businesses must spend a lot of money disposing of food waste therefore, their clients are seeking at ways to cut down on the waste from pineapple skins. When we looked around, we realized that when using the ASTRA peeler is a great way to make the skin of your pineapple quite thin upon peeling it in order to break down the entire peel in just one night.”

“As we have similar customers and customers, we came up with the idea of working together,” Ryo said. “Using the decomposer and peeler in conjunction, we contribute to the SDGs and the users have the ability to receive subsidy and grants.”

In the last 20 year, ASTRA has been fully committed to the development of automatic peelers. In addition to the KA-750PM peeler Astra is a manufacturer of peeling machines, including the KA700H, which is for oranges the apples and the Kiwis.

ASTRA Inc.

Mr. Ryo Takeshita

Tel. : +81 0245412444

Email: en.info@e-astra.co.jp

https://en.e-astra.co.jp/

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