Green bean processing

Together with multiple other vegetables, green beans experience an increased consumption due to the general focus on health and nutrition. However, convenience also induces consumers to choose processed solutions, whilst remaining uncompromising on quality and taste.

Cabinplant can provide complete lines for processing of green beans (round, flat) for capacities between 2 and 15t/h. Our experience includes solutions for all steps of the processing:

• Reception of beans
• Infeed to cleaning line, where big clusters of beans are removed 
• Separation of light foreign matters?, such as leaves and sticks
• Washing to remove sand, stones, stems, etc. in a flotation washer (continuous belt) or a flotation washer (flume), depending on capacity
• Draining and cleaning of washing water prior to recycling
• De-clustering  
• Snipping 
• Removal of unsnipped beans
• Cutting, if required  
• Accumulation to control infeed to blancher
• Integrated blanching and cooling to maintain taste, colour and nutrients 
• Scanning to remove beans with spots as well as other foreign matters
• Freezing
• Sorting
• Weighing, filling and packing, e.g. into bags 
   

Link to machines:

Bean cluster separator, flow separator, flotation washer (continuous belt), flotation washer (flume), filter drum, bean cluster cutter, bean snipper, unsnipped bean remover, bean cutter, blancher, size grading vibrator, multihead weigher, packing line for bags