Apple Cleaning & Destoning

Overview

Tong Engineering manufactures a wide range of cider apple cleaning and destoning equipment to effectively remove all debris, leaves and stones from your apple crop, prior to the cider-making process.

Tong manufacture heavy-duty stainless steel apple infeed hoppers that receive bulker loads of apples, whilst providing a continuous infeed to cider pressing facilities. Tong offers the complete solution to your cider apple cleaning needs as well as market-leading soil and debris separators that offer exceptional removal and grip on waste and leaf matter.

Custom Built Apple Cleaning Equipment

So, whether you are looking for a cider apple destoner, a means of effectively removing waste from your cider apple crop, or simply a robust and reliable cider apple infeed system that receives harvested crop, providing effective infeed for your cider making facilities, be sure to contact Tong’s expert sales team about your specific requirements. With a custom built cider apple cleaning system from Tong, you can significantly reduce wear on your cider pressing equipment, whilst enjoying a much cleaner apple, all ready for cider making.

Contact our dedicated team at Tong Engineering today, for more information.

Handling Processes

Cider Apple Loading Hoppers

Tong manufactures cider apple hoppers in mild steel and stainless steel. Both machines are built with stainless steel contact points to prevent acid corrosion, with guaranteed unrivalled performance and lifespan.

Built to last, Tong’s apple loading infeed hoppers are designed to be gentle on the crop, featuring a flow control sensor. Tong apple infeed hoppers ensure a continuous feed of apples into the cider making facility, ready to start the apple cleaning process.

Cider Apple Cleaning

Tong’s apple cleaning equipment offers very effective removal of leaves, sticks, soil, stones and other debris from your harvested apple crop. The market leading Tong EasyClean separator is a favourite amongst apple growers and cider producers, renowned for its unrivalled grip on leaf matter and debris, ensuring a clean crop of apples pass through to the processing plant. Fitted with a spray bar for optional application of water to aid the apple cleaning process, the EasyClean offers high capacity cleaning that will prove invaluable in ensuring debris-free crop at the infeed of any apple processing and cleaning facility.