Eco Super Named SCA Product of the Year

Eco Super Named SCA Product of the Year

Pinhalense Eco Super cherry pulper

The Eco Super from Pinhalense, a pulper that features an unripe cherry separator that consumes no water, received the new product of the year citation at the Global Specialty Coffee Expo, Seattle.

The Eco Super offers twice the capacity of the Pinhalense machine that preceded it with a much smaller power requirement per unit of coffee processed. The new machine retained its unique features – the least physical damage to parchment and the least pulp mixed with parchment in the market and no parchment lost with the pulp. The unripe cherry separator is placed before (not after) the pulper, and only used to separate pulp and for repassing. This sequence equips the machine with the unique ability to separate cherries according to their degree of ripening, i.e., unripe, partially ripe, and ripe and to have a built-in repasser. Unripe and partially ripe cherries that are separated may and should be processed separately to obtain the highest quality available in each cherry fraction.

Carlos Brando, director and partner of coffee consulting, marketing, and trading company P&A International Marketing pioneered the idea of presenting green coffee processing equipment in events that bring together coffee shops, retailers, industry, trade, and growers and was followed by competitors much later.

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