Fruit-specific preparation · equipment
Fruit Crusher
Prepare pressable mash where fruit and press duty justify size reduction.
Accepted fruit suitable for the proposed milling assembly.
View details →Fruit crusher vs pulper: which machine do you need?
Compare mash preparation with screened pulp recovery before choosing fruit juice equipment.
Pulp / seed finishing · equipment
Fruit Pulper and Finisher
Control pulp and remove specified unwanted solids at the right stage.
Prepared flesh, extracted juice-bearing material or an accepted liquid stream.
View details →The main difference
A crusher breaks suitable fruit into mash for another recovery operation. A pulper or finisher separates selected fractions through a screen while producing the required pulp or liquid stream. Crushing and screen separation are different duties, even when both machines have a rotating assembly.
When to compare a crusher
Consider mash preparation when your next machine is a press and the fruit can release and drain juice under the proposed conditions. Agree the incoming fruit size, required mash condition and the receiving press. Examine fines, feed consistency and cleaning access together.
When to compare a pulper
Consider pulping or finishing when edible flesh, coarse matter, fibre or seeds must be separated at a defined boundary. Give the wanted retained pulp, accepted particles and reject composition. A finer screen is not automatically a better product, and a finisher does not automatically make clear juice.
What makes a useful trial
Bring representative fruit and define the same feed boundary for both offers. Compare product and rejects, accepted solids, handling and cleaning. Recovery figures from prepared flesh cannot be compared directly with whole-fruit figures without accounting for upstream losses.