MINIMA Pollen Cleaner

01 · HOW IT CLEANS

The light goes out, the pellet drops

The airflow is regulated so that the pollen pellet falls under its own weight while dust, fragments of bee — wings, legs — and plant debris are carried away.

And from that comes the honest limit too: it does not separate impurities that weigh the same as the pellet. That needs a sieve or a pass by hand.

02 · THE HOPPER AND THE CLOCK

Three and a half kilos in, fifty an hour out

The hopper holds 6 litres, which in pollen comes to about 3.5 kg. At a capacity of 50 kg/h, that load empties in four minutes.

Worth doing the arithmetic before buying: this is a machine you keep feeding, not one you fill and walk away from. For small and medium batches it has room to spare; at industrial volumes the hopper is the bottleneck.

03 · BEFORE AND AFTER

Cleaning is not drying

The cleaner is one step in the process, not the process. Pollen is stabilised beforehand — dried below 45 °C, in practice nearer 40, or frozen — and packed tightly sealed afterwards.

The order matters: damp pollen does not clean well with air, because it cakes and the pellet stops behaving like a pellet. Dry, the separation is clean.

04 · THE MACHINE

AISI 304 stainless and self-assembly

Built in AISI 304 stainless steel, which is what an appliance touching a food product calls for: it cleans well and does not pit. It runs on 230 V and measures 400 × 750 × 930 mm.

It is supplied for you to assemble. Using it is four steps: container under the outlet, switch on, pour the pollen into the hopper and let the impurities leave by their own side.

05 · BEFORE YOU BUY

It arrives flat, for self-assembly, and is meant for small and medium production.