Packinghouse Practices and treatments
1. Degreening room with ethylene
Many types of Citrus Fruits, including lemons, grapefruit, oranges, and tangerines, can be Degreening by exposure to 1-10 ppm ethylene for 1-3 days. The temperature at which Degreening should occur is in the range of 68
to 86°F (20 to 30°C).
2. Row feeding stage
3. Preselection table manually before citrus goes automatically process
Surge control, leaf elimination, Pre-size, Pre-grade
4. Automatically process line
- Washing line stage
- Wetting “High-pressure Spraying washing machine
- Sudsing “Bubbling Clean”
- Washing “Hot water treatment”
- Water Sterilization System “Immersing Sterilization & Spraying fungicide”
- Polishing stage by the special brushes’ unit
- Dryer “Heat tunnel dryer”
- Waxing Machine "Spraying wax”
- Electronic sorter line stage
- Coloring sorter “16 color grader scanner system”
- Size sorter “Global scanning System”
- Electronic weighting system
- Appearance defect sorter “Holographic data System’
- Internal quality sorter