Brazil

Pinhalense recently launched a line of machines developed specially for the requirements of small growers and small central mills. Based on the ecoflex concept – wet milling machines combined according to clients’ needs – the new machines are small and combine on the same structure all components needed by small growers. Driven by a single electric motor or stationary engine, the new ecoflex machines are delivered fully assembled and ready to operate.

The most basic compact ecoflex wet milling set is designed for a capacity of 500 to 1,000kg/hr of fresh coffee cherries and has only a double-cylinder vertical pulper with a rotary screen parchment separator. The most complete compact set is equipped with a screen pulper (green cherry separator), a vertical double-cycling pulper, a rotary screen parchment separator and a mucilage remover. All intermediate configurations are supplied, always according to the users’ needs and always delivered fully assembled. Addition or removal of components can be done by users themselves because pieces are interconnected with the help of bolts and nuts. The ecoflex compact mill is also available as a mobile set. With Pinhalense’s new mobile compact mill – Ecoflexam - you can take the wet mill to the field. Assembled on a heavy-duty two-wheel cart, the ecoflexam mobile wet mill has the capacity for up to one ton of cherries/hr and water consumption of only one liter/kg of parchment.

Although the small compact ecoflex wet mills were developed specifically for small processors, they are strongly built, able to work for long daily journeys and expected to last for 10 to 15 years. They are compact machines with the same high technology and superb performance incorporated into the larger Pinhalense equipment.