Cappings Extruder 50 kg/h LYSON OPTIMA

01 · 400 V THREE-PHASE: THE FIRST FILTER

And a start-stop switch, nothing more

The control is an L-0-P switch with no speed regulation: it starts, it works at its 14 revolutions a minute and it stops. There are no programmes to set and nothing that can drift out of calibration.

That simplicity has a flip side: the machine does not adapt to drier or wetter cappings, you adapt by feeding it more slowly. And at 45 kilos on wheels it moves around the floor, but it does not go up to a mezzanine.

02 · HOW IT SEPARATES HONEY FROM WAX

A perforated cylinder and an auger that compacts

The cappings enter a perforated cylinder where an auger pushes and compresses them against the wall. The honey leaves through the perforations and falls to the sieve below; the wax, now compacted, keeps moving forward until it comes out at the end.

The result is two streams separated continuously: honey underneath and a cake of dry wax in front. The 50 kg/h figure refers to cappings processed, not honey obtained: what you recover depends on how wet the cappings come off the uncapping bench.

03 · PRESSING IS NOT MELTING

This is the difference you are paying for

The classic alternative for recovering that honey is to melt the cappings in a boiler. It works, but it puts heat into a product that pays for it: above 40 °C the HMF of the honey rises and the diastase falls, and both are legal parameters measured in the analysis.

A press works cold, at room temperature. The honey that comes out has taken no thermal load at all, so it can go back into the harvest stream instead of being written off as second-grade honey.

04 · WHAT COMES OUT NEEDS ONE MORE STEP

Neither the honey nor the wax comes out finished

The pressed honey carries wax fines and is worth settling or filtering before packing; the press sieve holds back the coarse material, it does not refine.

The wax comes out compact and dry, fit to go straight to the melting boiler. That is the right order in the honey house: press cold first to take the honey out, and only then heat the wax, which does take heat.

05 · BEFORE YOU BUY

A machine for a working floor, not for a garage.