Case of Basket Cleaning Line in Spanish Vegetable Processing Plant

A medium-sized vegetable processing plant in Almería, southern Spain, mainly handles Mediterranean vegetables such as tomatoes, lettuce and cucumbers, requiring a large number of plastic turnover baskets for turnover operations. Previously, the manual cleaning mode was inefficient, with only 8-12 baskets cleaned per hour per worker, which could not meet the production and hygiene requirements.

The plant introduced a customized automatic basket cleaning line, which integrates multiple processes such as pre-rinsing, high-pressure main cleaning, rinsing, disinfection and air-drying, and operates fully automatically. In a stable state, it can clean 50-60 baskets per hour, increasing the cleaning efficiency by 4-6 times compared with the manual mode.

The cleaning line not only ensures that the cleanliness of the baskets meets EU hygiene standards, but also greatly reduces labor and water costs, helping the plant break the production bottleneck and achieve cost reduction and efficiency improvement, which has become a typical case in the local vegetable processing industry.