Seagate vacuum-dries our fruit, vegetable and marine raw materials as part of the process of creating powder concentrates and extracts. We have 2 large freeze-dryers in our plant in Ensenada that do this work. The original one, vacuum tank #1 shown below is fully assembled. It was built by Seagate in 1994 in a local…
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Converting tomatoes into Lycopene
Seagate grows and processes our own raw materials into finished products. Once each year, we grow Roma tomatoes on our farm for lycopene production. Although we can grow these tomatoes year-round in our location in Baja California, we prefer to do this during the warmer months, between April and October when the tomatoes will quickly…
Seagate freeze-drying condenser repair
Seagate is a fishing and farming company that processes its own raw materials. Our philosophy is that Nature made it right and it is our job to try and maintain the valuable phytonutrients in our foods rather than to try and identify some mysterious active ingredient and isolate, separate, and then extract it. Therefore,…
Nopal Cactus farming and processing
Nopal Cactus is one of 20 raw materials that Seagate produces on their farms and from their fishing operations. The cactus farm is located inland from their factory in Ensenada, Baja California in one of the most arid regions of the world. Typical annual rainfalls average less than 6 inches per year in these inland…