Spices Oleoresin Extraction Plants

Ajwain

Mechotech designs and manufactures turnkey spices oleoresin extraction plants for Ajwain. We supply the complete machinery to process Ajwain into a consistent, specification-grade extract for the pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, food, and fragrance industries.

Black Pepper

Piperine 20–40% w/w, Volatile Oil 10–20% w/w

Mechotech designs and manufactures turnkey oleoresin extraction plants for Black Pepper (Piper nigrum), processing dried, cleaned peppercorns into a full-spectrum oleoresin standardised jointly on piperine content and residual volatile-oil content — the two components that together reproduce black pepper's characteristic pungency and aroma in a single pourable, food-safe extract. Unlike a standardised nutraceutical piperine powder, this oleoresin deliberately retains the fruit's essential-oil fraction alongside the alkaloid, since flavour-house and food-manufacturing buyers need both the heat and the top-note aroma of fresh pepper in one metered ingredient. We supply the complete machinery — cleaning, milling, solvent extraction, filtration, vacuum concentration, closed-loop solvent recovery, and standardisation — to process peppercorns into a consistent oleoresin for the food, flavour, fragrance, and seasoning industries.

Capsicum

Capsaicinoids by HPLC 2–20% & ASTA Colour Value 40,000–1,00,000

Mechotech designs and manufactures turnkey spices oleoresin extraction plants for Capsicum (Capsicum annuum and related species), processing dried, ground capsicum/chilli pods into a solvent-extracted oleoresin that can be graded on either — or, for buyers who need it, both — of the two commercially traded attributes of capsicum oleoresin: pungency and colour. Pungency is quantified as total capsaicinoids (capsaicin, dihydrocapsaicin and related alkylamides) by HPLC; colour strength is quantified separately as ASTA colour value, driven by the carotenoid pigments capsanthin and capsorubin. In the real spice-oleoresin trade these two attributes are more often sold as separate product lines from different cultivars — a high-pungency "hot" oleoresin from chilli-type pods, and a near-zero-pungency "paprika" oleoresin from sweet/colour-type pods — and Mechotech's plant is engineered to run either line, or a combined-attribute batch where the buyer's own raw material genuinely carries both. We supply the complete machinery — pod cleaning, milling, solvent extraction, filtration, vacuum concentration, closed-loop solvent recovery, and standardisation — to produce a consistent, specification-grade oleoresin for the food, flavour, nutraceutical, pharmaceutical, and natural-colourant industries.

Cardamom

Volatile Oil 45–70% w/w

Mechotech designs and manufactures turnkey oleoresin extraction plants for Cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum), processing dried green cardamom capsules (or decorticated seeds) into a volatile-oil-rich oleoresin dominated by 1,8-cineole and α-terpinyl acetate — the two terpene compounds primarily responsible for cardamom's characteristic cool, camphoraceous-sweet aroma. Cardamom's value lies almost entirely in this highly volatile essential-oil fraction, which is more delicate to preserve during processing than the resinous, low-volatility oleoresins typical of pepper or nutmeg, so the extraction and concentration stages are run gentler and cooler than a standard spice-oleoresin line. We supply the complete machinery to process cardamom into a consistent, essential-oil-rich oleoresin for the food, flavour, beverage, and fragrance industries.

Cassia / Cinnamon

Cinnamaldehyde 65–80% w/w

Mechotech designs and manufactures turnkey oleoresin extraction plants for Cassia (Cinnamomum cassia, also called Cinnamomum aromaticum), the thicker-barked, more pungent cinnamon species that dominates world cinnamon-spice trade, processing dried cassia bark into an oleoresin standardised primarily on cinnamaldehyde content — the aromatic aldehyde responsible for cinnamon's characteristic hot, sweet-woody flavour. Cassia is a genuinely different raw material from true Ceylon cinnamon (Cinnamomum verum, not covered by this page): cassia bark is thicker, coarser, and yields a stronger, more one-dimensional cinnamaldehyde-forward flavour, and — a well-documented food-safety distinction — carries meaningfully higher natural coumarin content than Ceylon cinnamon, which is relevant to food-grade dosing limits in several export markets. We supply the complete machinery to process cassia bark into a consistent, cinnamaldehyde-standardised oleoresin for the food, flavour, and fragrance industries.

Celery Seed Oleoresin

Mechotech designs and manufactures turnkey spices oleoresin extraction plants for Celery Seed (Apium graveolens), processing dried, cleaned celery seed into a solvent-extracted oleoresin carrying the seed's characteristic volatile-oil constituents — principally the phthalide compound sedanolide and the terpenes apiol and limonene, which together define celery seed's distinctive aroma and flavour profile. Unlike a single-marker oleoresin, celery seed oleoresin is not conventionally traded against one fixed percentage; instead each batch is assayed by gas chromatography for its characteristic terpene/phthalide profile and standardised to the buyer's own specification, whether that buyer is sourcing for flavour intensity, aroma character, or a defined volatile-oil content band. We supply the complete machinery — seed cleaning, milling, solvent extraction, filtration, vacuum concentration, closed-loop solvent recovery, and GC-based quality control — to convert celery seed into a consistent, specification-matched oleoresin for the food, flavour, and pharmaceutical industries.

Clove Buds

Eugenol 55–85% w/w

Mechotech designs and manufactures turnkey oleoresin extraction plants for Clove Buds (Syzygium aromaticum), processing the dried, unopened flower buds into an oleoresin standardised primarily on eugenol content — the phenylpropanoid that gives clove its characteristic pungent, warm aroma and accounts for the majority of the bud's essential-oil weight, one of the highest single-compound concentrations found in any common spice. Because clove bud's essential-oil yield and eugenol share are both unusually high compared with other spices, the extraction line is set up around efficient recovery of this dominant phenolic fraction, with a lower-value clove-leaf-oil (also eugenol-rich, but coarser and lower-priced) available as a complementary byproduct stream from a separate leaf-processing intake where buyers want to run both raw materials on shared infrastructure. We supply the complete machinery to process clove buds into a consistent, eugenol-standardised oleoresin for the food, flavour, dental, pharmaceutical, and fragrance industries.

Coriander

Linalool (Coriandrol) by GC 60–75%

Mechotech designs and manufactures turnkey spices oleoresin extraction plants for Coriander (Coriandrum sativum), processing dried, cleaned coriander seed into a solvent-extracted oleoresin standardised to its dominant terpene alcohol, linalool — also known in the flavour and fragrance trade as coriandrol — quantified by gas chromatography. Linalool typically accounts for the majority of coriander seed's volatile-oil fraction and is the compound that most closely tracks the seed's characteristic sweet, citrus-floral note, making GC-verified linalool content the standard commercial marker for coriander oleoresin quality. We supply the complete machinery — seed cleaning, milling, solvent extraction, filtration, vacuum concentration, closed-loop solvent recovery, and GC-based standardisation — to convert coriander seed into a consistent, specification-grade oleoresin for the food, flavour, fragrance, nutraceutical, and pharmaceutical industries.

Cumin

Cuminaldehyde by GC 20–35%

Mechotech designs and manufactures turnkey spices oleoresin extraction plants for Cumin (Cuminum cyminum), processing dried, cleaned cumin seed into a solvent-extracted oleoresin standardised to cuminaldehyde, the principal aromatic aldehyde marker compound of cumin's volatile-oil fraction, quantified by gas chromatography. Cuminaldehyde is the compound most responsible for cumin's characteristic warm, earthy aroma and is the standard commercial assay parameter used to grade cumin oleoresin across the spice-extract trade. We supply the complete machinery — seed cleaning, milling, solvent extraction, filtration, vacuum concentration, closed-loop solvent recovery, and GC-based standardisation — to convert cumin seed into a consistent, specification-grade oleoresin for the food, flavour, fragrance, nutraceutical, and pharmaceutical industries.

Fennel

Mechotech designs and manufactures turnkey spices oleoresin extraction plants for Fennel. We supply the complete machinery to process Fennel into a consistent, specification-grade extract for the pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, food, and fragrance industries.

Fenugreek

Mechotech designs and manufactures turnkey spices oleoresin extraction plants for Fenugreek. We supply the complete machinery to process Fenugreek into a consistent, specification-grade extract for the pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, food, and fragrance industries.

Garlic

Garlic Oleoresin / Allicin-standardised extract to customer specification

Mechotech designs and manufactures turnkey spices oleoresin extraction plants for Garlic (Allium sativum). We supply the complete machinery — crushing with enzymatic (Alliinase) conversion, low-temperature solvent extraction, filtration, vacuum concentration with solvent recovery, and drying — to process fresh garlic bulbs into consistent, specification-grade garlic oleoresin, oil and allicin-active extract for the pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, food, and fragrance industries.

Ginger

Mechotech designs and manufactures turnkey spices oleoresin extraction plants for Ginger (Zingiber officinale). As a ginger oleoresin extraction plant manufacturer, we supply the complete machinery — cleaning, milling, solvent extraction, filtration, vacuum concentration, solvent recovery, aroma recovery and standardisation — to process dried ginger rhizomes into a consistent, gingerol-rich, specification-grade oleoresin extract for the pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, food, beverage, and fragrance industries.

Mustard

Mechotech designs and manufactures turnkey spices oleoresin extraction plants for Mustard. We supply the complete machinery to process Mustard into a consistent, specification-grade extract for the pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, food, and fragrance industries.

Nutmeg

Volatile Oil 25–40% w/w

Mechotech designs and manufactures turnkey oleoresin extraction plants for Nutmeg (Myristica fragrans), processing the dried kernel of the nutmeg seed into a standardised oleoresin carrying its characteristic essential-oil terpenes — chiefly sabinene, α- and β-pinene, and myristicin — with the aromatic phenylpropanoid myristicin monitored as a quality-control marker rather than a headline claim. Nutmeg kernel is unusual among spices in also containing a substantial fixed-oil (fat) fraction, often called nutmeg butter, which is largely a co-extracted by-product rather than the target actives, so the process includes a de-fatting/separation step that most other spice-oleoresin lines do not need. We supply the complete machinery to process nutmeg kernels into a consistent, quality-controlled oleoresin for the food, flavour, and fragrance industries.

Onion

Mechotech designs and manufactures turnkey spices oleoresin extraction plants for Onion. We supply the complete machinery to process Onion into a consistent, specification-grade extract for the pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, food, and fragrance industries.

Oregano Oleoresin

Mechotech designs and manufactures turnkey spices oleoresin extraction plants for Oregano. We supply the complete machinery to process Oregano into a consistent, specification-grade oleoresin for the pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, food, and fragrance industries.

Pink Pepper

Mechotech designs and manufactures turnkey spices oleoresin extraction plants for Pink Pepper. We supply the complete machinery to process Pink Pepper into a consistent, specification-grade extract for the pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, food, and fragrance industries.

Red Chilli

Mechotech designs and manufactures turnkey spices oleoresin extraction plants for Red Chilli. We supply the complete machinery to process Red Chilli into a consistent, specification-grade extract for the pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, food, and fragrance industries.

Sweet Fennel

Mechotech designs and manufactures turnkey spices oleoresin extraction plants for Sweet Fennel. We supply the complete machinery to process Sweet Fennel into a consistent, specification-grade extract for the pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, food, and fragrance industries.

Curcumin

Up to 95% Curcuminoids by HPLC (custom specifications available)

Mechotech designs and manufactures turnkey curcumin extraction plants that process turmeric (Curcuma longa) rhizome into a consistent, specification-grade curcuminoid extract — standardised up to 95% Curcuminoids by HPLC — for the pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, food, and fragrance industries.