Citrus Z450, the industrial citrus extractor that best suits your business

The Citrus Z450 industrial citrus extractor is Zumex Food Engineering’s most famous and international juicing unit. Designed for small and medium citrus juice production, Citrus extracts the best juice from oranges, grapefruit, limes, lemons, mandarins, and pomegranates with the Z450p version.

What are the advantages of the Z450 industrial citrus extractor?

1. High performance with the lowest possible content in essential oils

The Citrus Z450 juicing unit has a juice production capacity of between 450 l/h and up to 950 l/h; in other words, it is capable of juicing up to 150 oranges per minute. Thanks to its rotary filter, the machine removes the pulp and seeds continuously, depositing them in a stainless steel draw and guaranteeing optimum quality juice.

Moreover, details such as its variable speed elevator and optimisation of loads, its chute with a capacity of up to 40 kg and its safety and cleaning systems, make Citrus a reliable and quality solution for your business.

2. Easy disassembly and cleaning

Citrus Z450 is surprisingly easy to install, disassemble and clean. Follow these steps and see for yourself.

Standard cleaning

• Removal of filter protector
• Extraction of front cover
• Removal of Blade
• Removal of peel outlets
• Put into operation in cleaning mode and apply water under pressure

Deep cleaning

In addition to the aforementioned steps:

• Removal of the juice extraction system pressing units.
• Pressure water wash

See cleaning tutorial

3. Versatility

Z450 adapts to all the needs of your business. In fact, starting with the Z450 juicing unit, you can adapt the installation to other Zumex equipment such as our pasteurisation and bottling equipment. Specifically, the Modular Tech technology by Zumex helps you to configure the installation which best fits your business model.

Moreover, Citrus offers you 3 juicing kits:

• Kit 9 (55-70 mm diameter)
• Kit 8 (70-85 mm diameter)
• Kit 7 (85-100 mm diameter)

4. Robustness

Manufactured entirely in stainless steel, the Z450 is a powerful and compact machine. Its dimensions (LxWxH) are 2.5 x 1. 2.2 m; with a net/gross weight of 750/960kg.

5. Ease of use and control

Citrus is simple and functional to operate. You can monitor all parts of the machine in an agile and intuitive manner from the control panel. Specifically, you will find:

• Power indicator
• Emergency stop
• Loading and juice extraction speed regulator
• Cleaning mode indicator

Citrus Z450 in action