Baby Carrot Line

Backus Foodtec is the major supplier of processing machinery for fresh vegetable produce such as the baby carrot line. Years of experience and many successfully initiated projects have given Backus Foodtec an enormous wealth of valuable knowledge concerning processing fresh produce.

Our baby carrot line gets right to the roots of vegetable processing. No other company can rival the in-depth understanding of Backus Foodtec when it comes to the specific traits of potatoes, onions, carrots, gherkins, leaf vegetables, lettuce, herbs, celeriac, beetroots and sweet peppers.

The combination of many years of successful machine design and the in-depth knowledge of fresh vegetable produce makes the baby carrot line of Backus Foodtec unique!

The baby carrot line at work: substantial amounts of carrots are washed/graded after harvesting, then packed. Add extra value to washed carrots using our processing lines for baby carrots, medium sized and large carrots (winter carrots). Our <baby carrot line tops carrots and slices them into a varirity of lengths.

The segments can also be scraped using carborundum and packed into crates. This produce is supplied to the salad industry for further processing into cubes, slices or strips. A baby carrot line can include the following parts/stations:

- topping machine and cutter: tops and slices carrots into the required length.
- drum/length grader: removes the short cut-offs.
- carborundum scraper: scrapes the cut carrots.
- polishing machine: polishes the carrots.
- drum: removes under sized carrots.
- hydrocooler:cools the carrots .
- inspection station:for quality inspection .
- packing station: to pack the carrots.