Provisur Technologies is a full-service provider of innovative machinery and integrated production systems for industrial food processing. The Lutetia brand is renowned for patented tumbler processes with cold steam, and chamber processes with cold convection. Lutetia® systems improve quality and yield of defrosting while also delivering curing, marinating, drying and smoking for meat products. The patented PROactivation technology for Lutetia tumblers is ideal for curing and creating clean label products.
Lutetia® celebrates 60 years of innovation and best-in-class equipment
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.
Fast defrosting with Lutetia®: outstanding performance, versatile technologies
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.
Smoking solutions: maximum flexibility, perfect taste
Lutetia smoking solutions are ideal for a wide range of products and renowned for producing the perfect streaky bacon. Systems include the use of cooking chambers as a traditional way to cook and smoke products and offer a broad range of capacity and smoke generator types. Complementary to the traditional method, Lutetia has developed an innovative patented technology using straight injection of smoke into the tumbler with or without drying function of the meat type. Today, with these two technologies, Lutetia delivers the optimal application for the best smoke penetration. This means that customers obtain products perfectly adapted to their tastes and requirements. Lutetia helps minimize cycle times, improve product quality, and maximize throughput.
PROactivation® technology: patented process for curing and drying
Provisur’s PROactivation technology is a patented method for cured meat and dry products, leading to high quality in a shorter time. While conventional methods for products such as air-dried ham, Black Forest ham, pancetta and more, require three to twelve months of maturing and drying, the entire process can be shortened to about two to four weeks with PROactivation technology. For customers, the shortened storage time means significant savings in terms of storage space as well as increased flexibility in responding to market needs. The process enhances the raw material by bringing out the best in meat of different quality grades and processing it into excellent products that are delicious in taste and texture.
Ideal process for clean label products
Lutetia is excellently suited to create clean label products such as products with less salt in both cooked or dry cured meat, as well as less preservatives, flavor enhancers, colorings, or aromas. However, the absence of certain ingredients makes conventional processes more demanding and often requires technologically very powerful equipment. With Lutetia, the product is optimized in the tumbler using Pro activation to enhance slicing yield on the cooked product. With the use of PROactivation yield gain will be always higher than using conventional technology. Lutetia boosts the yield of excellent slices.
Innovation and sustainability with a focus on product excellence
At the Provisur Innovation Center in Plailly, France, or on site at customer facilities, Provisur experts plan the most efficient processing set up and optimize equipment according to customer requirements. This includes complete Lutetia systems – conveyors, tumblers and injectors – that add value to raw materials at every step. Collaboration with customers has led to continuous innovation. Lutetia equipment focuses energy on the product – there is no waste of energy outside the product. This leads to low energy consumption and reduced cost. The system is easy to clean, has a small footprint, and operators benefit from a noticeable reduction in noise. The bottom line is that Lutetia delivers faster, safer, and more economical processes that produce excellent meat quality.
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