Instant Pasta Lines
A ready-to-eat dish that is done in three minutes and simple to cook. A natural alternative to traditional pasta for quick meals at the office, the gym, at school or on the move.
If you already have a dry pasta line you do not need to buy a new one. With Italpast technology an existing line, whatever its capacity, can be converted to produce instant pasta as well. The line keeps producing traditional dry pasta.
- Converting an existing line costs less than buying a new one
- Italpast technicians check whether your line is compatible and adaptable
- The conversion is done in a short time and production starts quickly
- Instant pasta plants have also been installed alongside other manufacturers' lines
- Lines with automatic dryers can be converted too
The stages of the line
What separates instant pasta from traditional pasta is the pre-cooking stage. The rest is familiar.
Converting an existing line
For producers who already have a dry pasta line. While the line is modernised and expanded, traditional production carries on and instant pasta capacity is added on top.
- Cheaper than buying a new line
- The line is checked technically for compatibility first
- Production starts in a short time
- Italpast has been building these plants for years; technical support comes with the conversion
- Application
- added to an existing line
- Capacity
- independent of the line capacity
- Production
- traditional and instant, on the same line
Steam pre-cooking
The defining stage of the line. The product is heat treated with steam on special thermoplastic nets. Steam is distributed through a tested steaming group, and the degree of gelatinisation is controlled exactly.
- Special thermoplastic nets for the pre-steaming treatment
- Steam is distributed through the steaming group
- The degree of gelatinisation is controlled exactly
- The result stays homogeneous even after the product is rehydrated
- Process
- steam heat treatment
- Carrier
- thermoplastic net
- Control
- degree of gelatinisation
Static or continuous drying
A semi-automatic line with static chambers, or a fully automatic short-cut line with continuous dryers. Instant pasta can also be added as an extra product on new short-cut lines or on the Multipla line.
- Semi-automatic line: drying in static chambers
- Fully automatic line: continuous dryers for short-cut pasta
- Added as an extra product alongside traditional pasta production
- Continuous dryer
- up to 1,000 kg/h
- Semi-automatic
- static chamber
- Product
- short-cut
Cups, packs and dehydrated seasoning
Packaging comes as packs and food cups. Pasta and flavourings can be mixed in the same container or kept separate.
- Filling into packs and cups
- Pasta and seasoning mixed or kept apart
- For dehydrated seasonings Italpast works with the Italian producer Liodry Foods
- Advice from one place, from choosing the plant to choosing the seasoning recipe
- Packaging
- pack · food cup
- Seasoning
- mixed or separate
- Partner
- Liodry Foods, Italy
Tell us the make and capacity of the line you have, and we will look at whether it can be converted.