Industrial Fruit and Vegetable Juicer

Short answer: An industrial fruit and vegetable juicer separates juice from pulp, skins and seeds. The right design depends mostly on the fruit itself: firm fruit like apples is usually crushed and pressed, soft fruit and vegetables suit a screw press, and citrus needs its own extractor so peel oil stays out of the juice.

How it works

For pressed fruit, the raw material is first broken into a mash by a crusher or mill. In a belt press, this mash is spread between two filter belts that run around a series of rollers, squeezing out juice progressively while the dry pomace is scraped off at the end. In a screw press, a rotating screw pushes the mash through a cylindrical screen with gradually increasing pressure; juice passes through the screen and pomace leaves at the end of the screw.

A citrus extractor works differently: each fruit is squeezed or reamed individually so that the juice is taken from inside while most of the peel oil is kept apart.

Juice from any press is collected in a tray, often passed through a coarse filter, and pumped to a buffer tank.

Pre-treatment has a large effect on the result. Some fruits release juice more easily after milling to a finer mash or after an enzyme rest, while others turn slimy if crushed too finely. Where possible we press a trial batch of your fruit before fixing the design, and we state yield on fruit input so that figures can be compared fairly.

Which configuration fits

Form	Suits	Watch out for
Belt press	Apples, pears, grapes, larger volumes	Needs a crusher and good belt washing
Screw press	Soft fruit, berries, vegetables, ginger	Screen choice affects pulp in juice
Citrus extractor	Oranges, lemons, limes, grapefruit	Fruit must be sized; single-purpose machine

What we need from you to quote

• Fruit and vegetable types, varieties and typical ripeness
• Juice style: clear, cloudy or with pulp; NFC or for concentration
• Throughput measured on fruit input (kg/h) and season length
• Expected yield and how you measure it
• Cleaning method and how pomace will be handled
• Next steps: filtration, heat treatment, filling

Where it sits in a line

Fruit arrives from a fruit and vegetable washer and, for many fruits, a crusher. Juice then goes to filtration, a pasteurizer and a liquid filling machine. For a complete plant, see the juice processing line.