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Rotary drum dryer for citrus lime peel at the Cifal Herbal plant
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Lime Crushing & Peel Drying

The facility employs an imported Mexican lime crusher to separate juice from peel. After two wash cycles and pressing, the peels move through controlled drying to achieve consistent moisture levels for further processing.

02

Lime Juice Section

The all-stainless-steel production line minimises bitterness through a careful process — oil removal via skin puncture, gentle juice extraction, and pulping.

Stainless-steel lime crushing and juice extraction line
Stainless-steel lime oil distillation stills and fractionation column
03

Lime Oil

Mexican-designed technology using vacuum-based production with a cyclone arrangement creates lime oil of intermediate quality and pricing. A fractionation column separates lime and other essential oils. This represents India’s first vacuum lime-oil manufacturing approach.

04

Pectin Plant

Properly cleaned lime peels undergo alcohol precipitation to eliminate pigmentation and impurities. The plant uniquely employs screw-press and decanter separation, followed by vacuum tray drying.

Stainless-steel pectin extraction and precipitation plant
Multi-level stainless-steel reactors in the herbal extraction facility
05

Herbal Extraction

A dedicated GMP-compliant facility with separate clean-room infrastructure processes approximately 60 tonnes of raw herbs monthly. Food-grade ethanol is our main solvent — a safer, preferred choice — though acetone, hexane, methanol or water are available on request.

06

Spray Drying

Three spray driers (two of 100 kg and one of 50 kg water-evaporation capacity per hour) convert filtered, homogenised materials into free-flowing powders within dedicated clean rooms with a cooled air supply.

Spray dryer chamber used to produce free-flowing powders
Quality-control laboratory with HPLC, GC and UV spectrophotometer
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Quality-Control Laboratory

Comprehensive testing capabilities include Shimadzu HPLC and GC instruments, UV spectrophotometry, ridgelimeter, rotavap and a microbiology laboratory — supporting batch standardisation across every line.

The plant

Inside the facility.

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