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- Raw material ; Cattle hide splits are used in producing
gelatin
- Selection : Unuseful splits are selected out
- Cutting : The splits are first cut using a machine
by a suitable size in order to be well conditioned.
- Treatment & washing ; The splits are conditioned
with alkali solution to be easily extracted by soaking in a
rectangular pit for more than 14days and then the conditioned
material is washed to remove foreign matters
- Extraction : The material is mixed with clean water
in a tank and then by heating up, the collagen of the material
is hydrolyzed.
- Filtration : After extraction, liquor is filtered through
cotton pulp pads.
- Ion Exchange : Liquor is deionized by passage through
both a cation and anion exchanger for the purpose of removal
of inorganic materials.
- Ultrafiltration : This concentrates the dilute liquor
from 5 to 8% at an operating temperature of 60”ĘC.
- Evaporation : This process remove most of moisture
in liquor by using a evaporator
- Sterilization : Liquor passes from the evaporator to
a DSI sterilizer in series to prevent the risk of microbial
contamination.
- Chilling : The concentrated warm liquor is gelled by
cooling in a votator and the votator is invariably producing
good noodles.
- Drying : The noodles are dried on a belt dryer by using
treated air. When dry, gelatin has a moisture content of about
10%.
- Crushing : From the diveller at the end of the belt,
the broken noodles are conveyed pneumatically to the mill which
produces a grist of between 10 and 40mesh
- Testing : Gelatin is first tested in a well equipped
laboratory to analyze Bloom, Viscosity., Chemical, Physical
and Microbiological properties etc.
- Blending :Gelatin is blended to meet customer specifications
and the end-use. The blender has a capacity of 10 tons and uses
compressed air to effect homogenization.
- Packing : It is then hygienically packed for storage
and delivery. The standard packs are 20kg and 25kg plastic-lined,
paper bags for the local and export markets respectively. |
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