Provisur Technologies’ Lutetia systems lead the way in innovative food processing, offering solutions for defrosting, marinating, smoking, and creating Clean-Label products.
Lutetia food processing technology offers innovative solutions for the food industry with advanced defrosting, tumbling, and smoking systems. Provisur Technologies, with over 60 years of expertise, continuously develops solutions to meet evolving food processing needs.
Lutetia® celebrates 60 years of innovation
For 60 years customers have successfully used Lutetia technology to boost their business and produce high quality products. Lutetia’s long-standing expertise has led to continuous innovation to deliver cutting-edge solutions that meet the challenges and demands of ever-changing global markets. The world-renowned tumbler technology provides multiple operations in a single machine – defrosting, marinating, curing, drying and smoking – ensuring maximum flexibility for customers. With its fully patented dynamic tumbler as well as static chamber systems, it processes a wide variety of applications including both bone-in and boneless products and is especially suited to pork, beef and chicken processing.
Unique defrosting technology
Defrosting meat products is usually a lengthy process in which frozen food loses its liquid content and active protein. Lutetia equipment uses technologies that counteract the drip loss of meat. In the rotating drum of the tumbler, frozen meat IQF or in blocks is defrosted by cold steam injection under vacuum. The advantage of this technology is that the meat juice consisting of water and proteins is retained in the product. Due to reduced drip loss, the weight loss that occurs during conventional defrosting is reduced by about 5 to 10 per cent. At the same time, the process stops microbial growth and therefore increases product safety. Dynamic defrosting in the tumbler is best suited to goods that are subsequently processed for cooked or marinated products.
Complementary to defrosting in the tumbler, Lutetia has developed a new technology that perfectly covers customer needs: static defrosting in the chamber. The high level of airflow, saturated humidity, and patented technology based on convection inside the chamber makes it ideal for fragile products, such as fish, chicken, beef, pork, pork loin and lamb – products that simply need defrosting to “look as fresh”.
These two technologies – dynamic tumbler and static chamber defrosting – perfectly cater to customer needs for both fresh and further processed goods.
