The heart of the line for producing fruit concentrates is multi-staged evaporation station with a dropping juice film used for condensing apple juice and soft fruit (coloured). Depending on the Customer's needs and technical conditions we construct 4, 5 or 6-stage stations. The number of stages (columns) depends on the Customer's requirements and B&P Engineering proposes the best solutions for a specific application. State of the art technologies available on the market and ongoing research works makes B&P Engineering evaporation station marked out by: - optimal energy consumption - failsafe operation - extremely high elasticity in efficiency adjustment - modern controls During the entire juice production process, raw material reaches the evaporation station twice: - for the first time, as unclarified juice before ultrafiltration process in order to be pasteurised and dearomatised - for the second time, as fined juice in order to be subjected to processes of initial and final condensation, inter-stage filtration and product cooling Condensing process consists in feeding fined juice to the heating columns which flows down as a dropping film. Hot steam heats the column from the outside, reaches a boiling point and evaporating point of liquid which is released to the next condensation level. Vapours are directed to the separator and used for further heating. The product goes through subsequent evaporation stages to obtain an appropriate concentration degree. Modern and intuitive interface ensures simple and safe operating; it selects parameters in a fully automated manner for production cycles. Juice condensed in the evaporation station is cooled down and pumped in pipelines to the equalisation tank and after standardisation to storage tanks.