Curcumin Extraction Plant in Bihar

Mecha Engineering Pvt. Ltd. designs and fabricates curcumin and turmeric oleoresin extraction plants at its own works at Village Meharbani on Behat Road, Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh. The company was set up in 2022 and supplies extraction, filtration, drying and blending equipment to turmeric clusters, food processing, nutraceutical, ayurvedic and export units across Bihar, the rest of India and overseas markets. Enquiries from Patna, Hajipur, Gaya, Muzaffarpur, Begusarai and Bhagalpur are handled by the same engineering team that builds the plant.

Batch lines start at 100 kg of turmeric powder per charge for pilot and R and D work and run up to 1000 kg per batch. Turnkey plants are built from 1 TPD to 5 TPD of rhizome feed with multi-vessel counter-current batteries. Tell us the daily turmeric quantity you want to process and we work backwards to the vessel size and the number of batches per shift.

It depends on the curcuminoid content of the rhizome you buy. Common Indian turmeric carries roughly 2 to 5 percent curcuminoids in the dried rhizome, and a well run plant recovers the large majority of that as oleoresin, with a further loss at the crystallisation stage. Rather than quote a number blind, we assay a 5 kg sample of your own rhizome and give you a yield figure you can budget against.

Ethyl acetate and acetone are the usual choices for curcuminoid extraction, with IPA or ethanol where a food grade or residual solvent limit applies and hexane for a defatting stage. The plant is built to suit whichever solvent your consent to operate allows. We provide the equipment list, solvent storage layout and hazardous area details that go with your BSPCB consent to establish and the Bihar factory licence application.

Both. The extraction and concentration sections alone give turmeric oleoresin at roughly 25 to 40 percent curcuminoids, which is what a food colour buyer wants. Adding the crystalliser, centrifuge, wash stage and vacuum tray dryer takes the same feed to 95 percent curcuminoid crystals for the nutraceutical and export trade. Many first-time Bihar units start at oleoresin, which needs the smaller investment, and add the crystallisation block once the rhizome supply from their FPO or mandi network is steady.

A properly designed recovery train, meaning condenser, receiver, vent condenser and a desolventiser on the spent marc, holds recovery in the high nineties. Losses beyond that usually come from open charging, an undersized condenser or a marc that leaves the plant still wet. We size the condenser against your solvent and ambient cooling water temperature rather than against a catalogue figure.

Flameproof motors, FLP control panel and light fittings, earthing and bonding across all vessels and piping, flame arrestors on vents, and a solvent day tank located to the required distance. Nitrogen blanketing, gas detection and a sprinkler or hydrant tie-in are added where your insurer or factory inspector asks for them.

Erection, solvent and utility piping, earthing, water trial, first turmeric batch and operator training at your Bihar site are part of the supply scope. Our crew travels from Saharanpur with the consignment and stays until the plant has run a full batch on your own rhizome, so a Patna, Gaya, Muzaffarpur or Purnia site does not wait on local fabrication help.

Standard handover covers the general arrangement drawing, material of construction certificates, hydro and vacuum test reports, weld and polish records, the operating and maintenance manual and a spare parts list. DQ, IQ and OQ protocols, along with a validation document set, are prepared on request for GMP, FSSAI and export buyers.

A batch extraction and concentration section ships in 8 to 12 weeks from order confirmation. A full turnkey line with crystallisation, drying and PLC control takes 14 to 16 weeks. Freight from Saharanpur to Bihar is quoted at actual cost against the trailer count, with road transit of roughly three to four days, and for larger vessels we arrange the route survey, permits and the unloading crane along with the dispatch.

Yes. Common jobs include adding a crystallisation and purification block to an existing oleoresin plant, replacing an open boil-off with a vacuum evaporator, adding a marc desolventiser to cut solvent loss, converting a manual battery to PLC control, and repolishing internal surfaces that have lost their finish. Send photographs, a layout sketch and your current yield figures to start.

Call +91-9084351006 or +91-7500378000, send a WhatsApp message, or email info@mechaengg.com with four details: the daily turmeric quantity in kilograms, the curcuminoid percentage of your rhizome if you know it, the solvent your clearance allows and the output grade you intend to sell. A specification sheet and price come back within one working day.