The cherries are de-pulped using hand or diesel de-pulpers. Four of RECOCARNO’s washing stations have diesel powered de-pulpers.

The cherry pulp, a useful by-product, is left to decomposeand collected to act as a natural fertiliser in an increasing number of locations. This also helps to prevent the pulp becoming a pollutant of local water-courses.

In the wet method the pulp of the fruit is separated from the beans before drying. The de-pulping machine squeezes the cherries between fixed and moving surfaces. The flesh and the skin of the fruit are left on one side and the beans, enclosed in their mucilage parchment covering, on the other. The clearance between the surfaces is adjusted to avoid damage to the beans. The de-pulper requires regular maintenance to prevent stones and other foreign objects from damaging the copper sheath of the drum.

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The next stage of processing is fermentation.