01 · Pome fruit
Apple, pear and quince
Firm fruit that can be washed, inspected, crushed and then pressed or pulped.
Apple · Pear · Quince
Review this fruit route →Fruit Processing Equipment by Fruit Type
Start from the fruit and its condition. Review the preparation, recovery, finishing and packaging questions that change the equipment brief.
Fruit-first procurement
Start with what the fruit does to the machine.
Firmness, stones, seeds, fibre and the wanted product change the preparation, recovery and finishing brief. Choose a fruit family to see the questions, equipment duties and connected routes to review before an enquiry.
A selection lens, not a compatibility claim
A fruit name does not prove that a specific machine or screen suits your variety. Variety, maturity, preparation and the actual offered assembly still need representative material trials.
Prepare a fruit equipment enquiry →Choose a fruit family
Four practical starting points
02 · Stone fruit
Peach, apricot, plum and cherry
Fruit with a stone that needs a deliberate destoning boundary before recovery.
Peach · Apricot · Plum · Cherry · Nectarine
Review this fruit route →03 · Berry and small fruit
Grape, berry and small fruit
Fragile or small fruit where transfer, crushing and pressing need gentler handling.
Grape · Raspberry · Blueberry · Blackcurrant · Strawberry
Review this fruit route →04 · Tropical and fibrous fruit
Mango, pineapple, guava and passion fruit
Fibrous flesh, peel and seeds that make pulping, finishing and passage sizing central.
Mango · Pineapple · Guava · Passion fruit · Papaya
Review this fruit route →What changes the equipment brief
Read the fruit, not only the product name
Handling and firmness
Whole-fruit washing, transfer and crushing need a handling arrangement that suits the skin, ripeness and damage sensitivity. A firm-fruit washer is not automatically a berry washer.
Stones, seeds and peel
A stone, seed or peel fraction needs its own separation and reject path. Crushing does not establish destoning, and a pulper screen does not prove fragment control.
Fibre, particles and viscosity
The product at each machine inlet can be mash, juice, pulp or concentrate. Screen openings, pump passages, valves and thermal paths must be reviewed against that actual condition.
Target product and package
Clear juice, cloudy juice, puree, concentrate and a formulated base have different finishing, treatment and filling boundaries. The package is part of the filling decision, not an afterthought.
Build the brief in three steps
Fruit → process task → equipment duty
Name the fruit and its condition
Give the fruit family, variety if known, maturity, preparation and the condition entering the first machine. Add the product you want to make.
Choose the process task
Wash, prepare, recover, finish, treat, concentrate, transfer, fill or clean. A different task can belong in the same project without being an alternative machine.
Shortlist and request evidence
Open the equipment duties, compare only common duties under one material and rate basis, then ask for the offered model, drawings, photographs and trial conditions.
Go deeper
Material condition and selection method
Material at the inlet
Match equipment to the material, not the fruit name
Review firm fruit, stone-bearing fruit, fibrous flesh, extracted liquid and prepared pulp as different equipment inlets.
Selection method
Build one common duty brief
Use task, material condition, target product and rate basis to narrow the catalogue without inventing model compatibility.
Quotation checklist
What to include in an enquiry
Start with the fruit and wanted product, then add the known rate, interfaces and package information.