Haldin processes Lampung black pepper using advanced technologies, including pepper lines, spyro cleaners, dome dryers, optical sorters, steam sterilizers, disc mills, shifters, and metal separators. The pepper is available in whole, cracked, and powdered forms. All products meet international food safety standards and deliver consistent flavor.
Why Lampung Pepper?
Lampung is recognized as one of Indonesia’s premier black pepper-growing regions. Its distinctive characteristics include:
- A sharp, warm aroma with distinctive volatile compounds.
- A pungent, spicy flavor with layers of woody, earthy, and citrus notes.
- Dense grains with high density, supporting yield and stability during storage.
- Lampung’s geographic combination—soil type, rainfall, and cultivation practices—creates a consistent organoleptic profile that is favored by both local and global markets.
Haldin has developed upstream partnerships with local farmers to ensure traceability, consistent supply, and proper harvest-to-post-harvest practices.
Haldin Black Pepper Production Process
To ensure the safety of the pepper across various applications, we employ a controlled processing chain from receipt of raw materials to final packaging. Our five key technological pillars are:
1. Dome Dryer: Controlled Drying
Before sorting, Haldin dries pepper using a dome dryer for clean, uniform results. This technology ensures controlled drying with consistent temperature compared to traditional sun-drying methods.
Advantages of a dome dryer:
- Temperature and humidity control maintains the quality of essential oils.
- Hygienic because it is protected from dust, rain, and external contaminants.
- Consistent drying that prevents mold and quality degradation.
- The dome dryer process ensures a stable water content (10–13%) for safe storage and ready for further processing.
2. Pepper Line: Product Sorting & Cleaning Stages
The pepper line is a series of mechanical steps specifically designed for pepper, including initial cleaning, size sorting, and impurity separation. The goal is to minimize physical contaminants as early as possible while maintaining the integrity and uniformity of the black pepper grains.
General steps in the pepper line include:
- Pre-cleaner: Removes dust, soil, and light particles through a pre-screen with a vibration system.
- Destoning: Removes stones, gravel, and solid foreign materials, working based on the specific gravity of the product.
- Spyro Cleaner: The Spyro cleaner removes hollow peppercorns and light impurities such as dust, dry soil, leaf debris, or straw carried over during harvest. This machine uses a spiral and airflow principle to separate the pepper from the lighter materials.
- Magnet Conveyor: The function of the magnetic conveyor in the pepper production process is to act as an initial safeguard against metal contamination that may be carried along with the raw materials.
- Size Grading: Separates grains based on diameter to ensure uniform pepper size.
- Aspirator: The final stage of the sorting process, removing any foreign matter that has escaped the previous sorting machine stages, ensures consistent quality.
The pepper line process results in clean, uniform raw materials ready for the next stage of microbial contamination reduction and/or milling.
3. Optical Sorter: High-tech visual selection
The optical sorter uses camera sensors and a sophisticated lighting system to detect defective or non-colored peppercorns. This machine improves visual quality while removing non-pepper impurities that are difficult to detect manually.
Advantages of an optical sorter:
- High accuracy in detecting variations in color and shape.
- Reduces physical contaminants invisible to the human eye.
- Consistency of visual quality from batch to batch.
4. Steam Sterilization: Food safety without compromising product flavor and aroma
Steam sterilization is an effective microbial reduction method for spices. With controlled temperature, pressure, and time parameters, this process reduces total plate count and pathogen risk without the use of chemicals, thus embracing global market preferences for natural and sustainable processes.
Key advantages:
- Significant reduction of microbial load in compliance with customer and regulatory requirements.
- Minimized flavor degradation thanks to precise control of process parameters.
- Batch-to-batch consistency through digital monitoring and recording that supports audits.
5. Disc Mill: Precision Milling for a Stable Flavor Profile
To produce ground and cracked pepper, Haldin uses a disc mill that allows fineness adjustments to customer specifications—ranging from coarse to fine. The key to a disc mill is balanced shear and impact, ensuring the pepper’s natural volatiles are maintained.
Disc mill added value:
- Particle size control improves dispersion in sauces, snacks, and marinades.
- Reduces the risk of loss of volatile compounds that determine the characteristics of Lampung pepper.
- Process efficiency with high capacity and minimal wear and tear, resulting in lower long-term operational costs.
6. Shifter: Screening for uniform size
After milling, the product passes through a shifter to separate particles based on predetermined sizes. This process ensures uniformity and reduces excess fine dust that can affect appearance and mouthfeel.
Benefits of the shifter:
- Granulation consistency according to categories: cracked, medium, fine.
- Reduces unwanted coarse fibers and other non-pepper particles.
- Simplifies quality control through more standardized particle sizes.
7. Metal Separator: The ultimate protection against physical contamination
As a critical control point, the metal separator detects and removes ferrous and non-ferrous metal particles that may be carried over during the process. This unit is strategically placed in the post-milling and pre-packaging lines, providing additional safety assurance.
Key Functions:
- Sensitive detection of various metal contaminant sizes.
- Automated rejects prevent cross-contamination.
- Compliance with food safety standards demanded by export markets.
Product Variations: Whole, Cracked, and Ground
Haldin offers three main forms of pepper to suit your application needs.
1. Whole Black Pepper
- Applications: Infused oils, pickling, broths/stocks, tabletop grinders, and culinary decorations.
- Advantages: Stable during storage, gradual aroma release when heated, and a premium appearance.
- Example specifications: Standardized grain diameter, controlled moisture content, optimal bulk density for bulk packaging.
2. Cracked Pepper
- Applications: Sausages and deli meats, BBQ dry rubs, savory snacks, instant noodles, soups, and seasonings.
- Advantages: Strong flavor impact with a texture that provides a bite; suitable for the visual appearance of pepper bits.
- Example specifications: 10–20 mesh (or upon request), high uniformity for easy flavor reproducibility.
3. Ground Pepper
- Applications: Sauces, dressings, marinades, powdered broths, frozen foods, ready-to-use seasonings, RTE/RTC (Ready-to-Eat / Ready-to-Cook) products.
- Advantages: Fast dispersion, consistency of taste between batches, and dosage efficiency.
- Example specifications: fine to extra fine; mesh size adjusted to meet customer formulations and equipment requirements.
Quality Control & Food Safety
To maintain quality throughout the entire process, the following standard practices are implemented.
1. Raw Material Selection: Receiving pepper from Lampung farmers through verified suppliers, with physical inspection (color, density, impurities).
2. Moisture Content Management: Drying and moisture stabilization to prevent microbial growth and optimize shelf life.
3. HACCP Point: Establishing critical control points in the pepper line, steam sterilization, metal separator, and final packaging.
4. Laboratory Testing: Common parameters include TPC, E. coli, Salmonella (negative), aflatoxin (if relevant), ash content, essential oils, and particle size.
5. Traceability: Batch labeling and digital documentation to facilitate audits and recalls if necessary.
6. Packaging & Storage: Food-grade packaging with a moisture barrier; storage in a conditioned warehouse that maintains temperature and humidity.
The result is a product with verified safety, a stable flavor profile, and consistent formulation performance across the customer’s production line.
Why Choose Haldin Black Pepper?
a. Trusted Origin: Sourced from Lampung with a strong flavor character and preferred by the market.
b. Integrated Technology: Dome dryer, pepper line with spyro cleaner, optical sorter, steam sterilizer, disc mill, shifter, metal separator create added value in a safe and efficient production process chain.
c. Customizable: Particle size, microbial standards, and sensory specifications can be adjusted to client needs.
d. Batch Consistency: Process control system and documentation support replication of results in every batch.
e. Application Support: The technical team assists with formulation optimization and testing to accelerate time-to-market.
f. Scalability: Production capacity supports the needs of large industries and growing brands.
Recommended Industrial Applications
1. Spices & Seasonings
- Fine ground pepper for sauces, instant soups, and broths.
- Cracked pepper for snack sprinkles and dry marinades.
- Whole pepper for pickled products or grinder sachets.
2. Processed Meat
- Cracked pepper adds visual specks and a bite to sausages, burgers, and meatballs.
- Ground pepper improves flavor distribution in marinades and seasonings.
3. RTE/RTC (Ready-to-Eat / Ready-to-Cook)
- Ground pepper for gravies and thick sauces
- Cracked pepper for finishing.
4. Functional & Botanical Beverages
- Ground pepper for a warm, spicy note in botanical drinks and spiced lattes; a finer mesh is recommended for better suspension stability.
5. Bakery & Savory Pastry
- Cracked pepper for toppings in breads and savory pastries.
- Ground pepper for evenly distributed spicy character.
Combining Lampung’s distinctive origins with modern technology, including a pepper line, dome dryer, optical sorter, steam sterilizer, disc mill, shifter, and metal separator, Haldin offers whole, cracked, and ground pepper that meets global standards. These products are designed to meet diverse industry needs, ensuring safety, consistent flavor, and flexible specifications.
Contact Haldin today for high-quality black pepper solutions to support your business growth.