RotaTherm

WORLD-LEADING CONTINUOUS COOKING

CONTINUOUS COOKER WITH DIRECT STEAM INJECTION

  • Highest product quality – freshest taste & colour
  • Low operating costs, fastest ROI, lowest waste
  • 50kg/h up to 20,000kg/h (for meat rendering, processing pet food & other applications)
  • 50kg/h up to 8,500kg/h (for processing cheese)
  • Runs up to 156h between fast CIP
  • Pasteurise & UHT
Continuous cooker, continuous steam cooker systems: RotaTherm

RotaTherm

The Natec Network RotaTherm is a unique single stage continuous cooker, continuous steam cooker system. It provides significant flexibility, automation and control across a diverse range of products and processing conditions, delivering considerable benefits.

When it comes to processed cheese production, the agitation creates the characteristic smooth and uniform cheese texture. The RotaTherm offers the best control over the firmness and overall texture of the end product. The RotaTherm also enables UHT processing, which extends the shelf life so that, requiring less stringent refrigeration.

When industrially producing pasta filata cheese shredded cagliata curd blocks are usually heated and kneaded by a wet cooker, which - batch by batch - heats the curd in hot water or brine to soften it. Using the RotaTherm is an innovative continuous method, which does not require neither hot water nor brine.

The RotaTherm also enables optimized processing of numerous other product types, viscosities and compositions such as meat, sauces, pet food, purees, baby food and more.

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Food applications SOS, Mozzarella, Puree, Sauce, Soup, Meat, Pet food

Benefits

  • One cooker, many applications.
  • Fast and even heating by unique steam fusion technology with multiple steam injector points
  • Diverse range of products and flexible processing conditions – low temperature, pasteurise, UHT & aseptic
  • Consistent quality with reduced formulation costs and reduced waste
  • Efficient energy usage and fully CIP-able
  • Designed for minimal downtime, maximum productivity
  • Highly automated – presettable recipes provide consistency
  • One-touch START, STOP and CLEAN – simple to use
  • The only continuous cooker that can pause and restart without any waste
  • Lowest & highest viscosities achievable

Options & attachments

  • Long non-stop production - up to 156 h
  • Blending and feeding systems
  • Vacuum cooling and de-aeration systems
  • Liquid dosing
  • Highly configurable for shear management, pressures, temperature, time, etc.
  • Further options on request
 
 

Technical data

Capacity data

  • 50kg/h - 20,000kg/h (110 - 44,000 lb/h)
 

Heating temperature

  • 40°C - 145 °C (104 – 293°F)
  • Can pasteurise & UHT

Footprint

  • 1.14m x 1.5m (4.5" x 5.9") for one cooker alone

Run time

  • Up to 156 hours between fast CIP for dual systems
  • Up to 72 hours between fast CIP for single systems

Execution

  • Highest quality construction materials to meet all the hygiene requirements of the food industry

Turndown

  • Turndown ratio of 1:3

Cleaning

  • Stand alone, or integrated CIP system

Utilities

  • Steam, air, water and power as required

Human Resources

  • Less than 1 person
 
 

Product surfaces

  • AISI 316L (1.4044) stainless steel