Apple pomace drying turns the pressed skins, cores and seeds left after juice or cider making into a shelf-stable fibre. The fresh cake ferments within a day, yet once dried it supplies pectin extractors, dietary fibre and flour blenders, and feed mills. Buyers dry it to stop disposal charges and sell a product with a defined moisture and colour.
To dry apple pomace, GEM recommends the Band Dryer (Beltotherm). Typical moisture is 70–80% in the feed and 8–10% after drying. Multi-Pass Conveyor Dryer and Rotary Dryer are used when the feed or site calls for it. Every project starts with a pilot trial on your own sample.
A multi-zone Beltotherm band dryer holds the pressed pomace as an open bed, letting hot early zones remove surface water while cooler later zones protect colour and pectin. A multi-pass conveyor saves floor space at smaller presses; a rotary dryer suits feed-grade output where colour is less critical.
| Typical feed moisture | 70–80% |
| Typical target moisture | 8–10% |
| Recommended dryer | Band Dryer (Beltotherm) |
| Alternatives | Multi-Pass Conveyor Dryer, Rotary Dryer |
| Application area | Pomace, Pulp & By-products |
| Industries | Food & Beverage, Animal Feed, Breweries & Distilleries |
Drying removes up to three-quarters of the weight a juice plant would otherwise truck away as wet waste. Dried pomace keeps for months, can be stored through the off-season and is sold by the tonne to pectin, fibre and feed buyers.
Plants searching for a apple pomace dryer or comparing a apple pomace drying machine usually need three answers: which dryer fits, what it costs to run, and how fast it pays back. For Apple Pomace, we start from your throughput, current moisture (typically 70–80%) and the target (8–10%), trial a sample on the Band Dryer, and return a sized recommendation with a budget quotation for your food and animal feed operation.
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We trial your material in our pilot facility before any equipment decision, then size the dryer from real data.
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