What a peanut butter manufacturing plant includes
A Wahal peanut butter plant is tailor-made to your demand, and one unit processes a wide range of formulations. Our food brochure presents it as a single peanut butter and RUTF processing plant. It has three sections.
| Section | Stages | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| Raw peanut handling | Storage, de-stoning, shelling, roasting, cooling belt, blanching machine, picking belt | The peanuts are cleaned and shelled, roasted and cooled on a belt. The blanching machine peels off the skin, and unqualified peanuts and residue are picked out before grinding. |
| Paste processing | Weighing, grinding, mixing, homogenization, cooling, de-gassing | The raw material is weighed, then the peanuts are ground and fine ground. The paste is mixed and homogenized with the other ingredients, cooled in a condenser and de-gassed in a degassing tank. |
| Packing | Metal detection, filling, capping and sealing, labelling and coding, cartons, storage | The finished peanut butter passes a metal detector before filling. The line is supplied with filling, on fillers from our partners. |
Peanut butter making machines from Wahal
Wahal makes the machines that grind, mill, mix and homogenize the paste. Which ones go into a line depends on your recipe and the texture you want; each has its own page.
| Machine | Job in a peanut butter line | Published facts |
|---|---|---|
| Multiprocessor | Grinding peanuts to a paste | Rotor-stator, rotating at 9,600 rpm, with no heat generation during grinding, for better sensory and nutritional quality. A feeding hopper with a screw conveyor feeds it. Its working tools and slot sizes from 0.3 to 5 mm set the paste coarse or smooth. Built in SS304, SS316L or carbides. |
| Colloid mill | Fine milling for a smooth texture | Shears the product in the narrow gap between a high-speed rotor and a fixed stator. Used on peanut butter for a smooth texture and uniform consistency. |
| Thermoshear vacuum unit | Mixing and homogenizing under vacuum | Vacuum homogenization in a hermetically sealed vessel, direct steam injection, a contra-rotary agitator with scrapers and a vortex breaker, a triple jacket for heating and cooling, PLC recipe storage, CIP models. Peanut butter and tahina are on its application list. |
| Inline homogenizer | Homogenization in the line | Rotor-stator mixer in the pipeline, self-pumping in most cases, with one, two or four stages, 15 to 200,000 litres per hour. Homogenizes spreads and pastes. |
Nut butter machines: almond, cashew, tahini and chocolate peanut butter
The same equipment also makes almond butter, cashew butter, tahini (sesame paste) and chocolate peanut butter.
On peanut butter itself, one unit runs all-natural, creamy and chocolate formulations, and the multiprocessor's working tools set the paste coarse or smooth. Tahina is on the Thermoshear unit's application list.
Making a chocolate or hazelnut cocoa spread? That line shares equipment with this one, so we offer nut butters and spreads as one range. Its stages are premixing, a bead mill and pump discharge; see our chocolate spread plant.
Capacity: 2 to 12 tons a day, and small-scale lines
Our peanut butter plants are built for 2, 5, 8 or 12 tons a day.
For startups and small food manufacturers we customise small-scale lines. Batch size and floor space are fixed once the product and the equipment configuration are chosen.
What a plant costs depends on its capacity, the sections you need (raw peanut handling, or the paste and packing sections only), your products and recipe, and the pack format, so price is on request.
Peanut butter, RUTF and LNS lines
Ready-to-use therapeutic foods (RUTF) are energy-dense, micronutrient-enriched pastes, often made of peanuts, oil, sugar and milk powder, and our food brochure presents peanut butter and RUTF as one processing plant. For RUTF and RUSF lines, see our RUTF processing plant.
For LNS and other peanut, date and chickpea pastes, our LNS MQ production lines are built around Wahal's patented multi-stage high shear mixer, which has four shear zones (Indian Patent No. 201711024091 A).
Test your recipe before you buy
You can trial the peanut butter line, like all our food lines, with your own recipe. Trials run in our fully equipped laboratory, and our rental programme lets you keep a machine, pre-configured to your requirements, for as long as you need. See trials and rentals.
Wahal Engineers makes its machines in India, at its factory in Bhigan (Murthal), Sonipat, Haryana; the head office is in New Delhi.
Frequently asked questions
What machines are used to make peanut butter?
A roaster, a cooling belt, a blanching machine and a picking belt prepare the peanuts. A grinder, such as the Wahal multiprocessor or a colloid mill, turns them into paste; the paste is then mixed, homogenized, cooled and de-gassed before a filler packs it.
How is peanut butter made in a factory?
The raw peanuts are stored, de-stoned, shelled, roasted and cooled, then blanched to remove the skin and sorted. They are ground and fine ground into paste, mixed with the other ingredients, cooled, de-gassed and filled.
What capacity can a peanut butter plant have?
Wahal builds peanut butter plants for 2, 5, 8 or 12 tons a day, and customised small-scale lines for startups.
Can the same line make almond butter, cashew butter or tahini?
Yes. The equipment also makes almond butter, cashew butter, tahini and chocolate peanut butter.
Can it make both smooth and coarse peanut butter?
Yes. The multiprocessor's working tools and slot sizes, from 0.3 to 5 mm, adjust the fineness or coarseness of the paste.
Is there a small peanut butter machine for startups?
Yes. We customise small-scale lines for startups and small food manufacturers; batch size and floor space are set once the product and the equipment are chosen.
What does a peanut butter manufacturing plant cost?
It depends on the capacity, the sections you need, your products and recipe, and the pack format, so price is on request. Send us those details, or run a trial first.
Do you supply the filling and packing machines?
We supply the line with filling, on fillers from our partners.
