History

Development of Pistachio Processing Machinery in Iran:
For hundreds of years pistachios were peeled (hulled) by hand. The workers handling this job worked so fast and skillfully that it was difficult to see the procedure even at close observation. About 35 years ago a machine was developed by an industrialist from Kerman to peel the pistachios. For quite sometime, the machine was enough to handle hulling which was considered the main task and the rest was done by hand. There were many efforts and quite a number of technical specialists tried to find a general solution for a complete line for processing pistachios.

Among them, some 20 years ago, a company called Momtazan Industrial Company started manufacturing complete pistachio processing lines. This company developed 8 patented machines, these and other machines altogether form a continuous line. This company which started its activity in a small 20 square meter garage upon request of one of the enthusiastic pistachio growers today is manufacturing the processing machinery in a 60000 square meter plot of land and about 10000 square meter of factory space, employing some 400 people.

Momtazan has been developing manufacturing nut processing machinery for about two decades and has offered new ideas and inventions in agricultural machineries.