Separate Palm Fruit from the Bunch in One Pass: The Weiwei YS-GT-800 Palm Fruit Thresher at 300 kg/h — Weiwei Machinery
In Nigeria, Indonesia, Colombia, Ghana, Ecuador and across the smallholder palm belt, most fresh fruit bunches are still stripped by hand or with crude wooden beaters. That is slow, back-breaking work, and it is also risky: once a bunch is cut it must reach the press within 24–48 hours, or the free fatty acid in the fruit climbs and the oil loses grade and price. A village mill that can strip fruit fast — without bruising it — protects both the day's yield and the season's income.
The Weiwei YS-GT-800 palm fruit thresher is built exactly for that bottleneck. It strips fruit from the bunch at 300 kg/h, runs on an 18.5 kW motor (with a 6–8 HP engine offered as standard configuration for sites without three-phase power), and packs into a 2440 × 1300 × 1700 mm crate at 600 kg — small enough for a cooperative shed or a mobile processing unit, rugged enough for daily village use.
Inside, bunches drop into the hopper and meet a rotating drum fitted with stripping teeth that knock the fruit loose without crushing the kernels. A built-in blower then separates the heavy fruit from the light, empty bunch stalks, so the clean fruit falls out ready for boiling, the digester and the screw press, while the empty stalks are discharged separately. One operator keeps the line moving, the fruit stays intact (less bruise means better oil), and the whole process is continuous rather than batch-by-batch by hand.
This thresher suits smallholder cooperatives, village palm processors and agro-entrepreneurs who want to add value to local fruit instead of selling it cheap as raw bunches. Zhengzhou Weiwei Machinery Co., Ltd. has built agricultural and oil-processing machinery since 1980 in Xingyang, Zhengzhou, Henan, holds ISO9001 and EU CE certification, and exports to the Americas, Africa, Southeast Asia and South Asia.
Want a thresher sized to your daily bunch volume and power supply? Open our homepage to compare the full range of palm, threshing and oil-processing machines, then tell us your target throughput — we will recommend the right model and quote a delivered price: www.weiweimachinery.com
