OIL PRESSES

Expellers for cold pressed oil production

We press oil ourselves and have been doing so for years, any problems and we can probably sort it out. If you want to see a press running then get in touch and we'll let you know when we are pressing next, or read on and view one of the videos. Keep scrolling down - we supply many types of press from a very small press that you can use in the kitchen through to a press that will give 50 litres of oil per hour (and further scale up by adding more units).

KERN KRAFT PRESSES

This is a popular press with farmers, it is a very neat and compact press from Germany. We are an authorised dealer for Kern Kraft presses and can therefore offer full backup. The presses perform very well and are easy to dismantle and clean making them ideal for culinary oil production. Although the throughput may seem small these machines can confidently be left running unattended (for months on end if required). Very little seed pulp (known as foots) comes through with the oil making filtering that bit easier. Higher capacity can be achieved easily by installing more of these compact press units - this gives a greater throughput while maintaining a good clean oil output, something that is difficult to achieve with a larger single press. Cake is expelled as a pellet (for example with rapeseed the pellet diameter is 6mm to 8mm). See a video of the KK40 pressing rapeseed HERE. More information can be found on the Kern Kraft web site here: http://www.oelpresse.de

KERN KRAFT KK40

Max throughput 40kg seed per hour (e.g.max 14 litres of rapeseed oil per hour)
3.0kW motor (three phase or single phase) with variable speed control.
Cake output as pellets.
Easy to take apart and clean. Many nozzel sizes available. Can be configured to press most oil bearing seeds and nuts. Can be left running continuously.
PRICE: £5,400 + VAT

KERN KRAFT KK20

~ single barrel version of the KK40
Max throughput 20kg seed per hour (e.g.max 7 litres of rapeseed oil per hour)
2.0kW motor (three phase or single phase) with variable speed control.
Cake output as pellets.
Easy to take apart and clean. Many nozzel sizes available. Can be configured to press most oil bearing seeds and nuts. Can be left running continuously.
PRICE: £3.900 + VAT

KERN KRAFT KK8

8 kg per hour
Ideal for very small production runs or educational demonstration or trials
Can be configured to press most oil bearing seeds and nuts
PRICE: £2,900 + VAT

KERNKRAFT also make a 60kg per hour, a 100kg per hour and a 140kg per hour press. Contact us for more information about the bigger presses.

'KITCHEN' PRESS

Here is a little press ideal for education to show how the process of oil extraction works or for making oil for yourself from your own crops, running taste tests or making samples. It is based on a juicer and is quite a heavy duty solid feeling unit. I tested it on rape and it works very well, easy with little fuss. I got 700ml in an hour - not fast by any means but whirs away nicely. Should be fine for most small seeds like rape, linseed, hemp etc. You'll get all the fruit and vegetable juicer parts too with this oil press.
PRICE: Omni oil press - £205.00 + VAT

CHINESE PRESSES

We modify the main screw elements of these presses here in the UK to make them suitable for cold pressing, the Chinese presses you see elsewhere are actually designed for hot pressing, the standard unmodified machine will cold press but will produce quite a bit of seed pulp in the oil (known as 'foots').

Here is a link to a you tube video showing the YF100 with the modified screw pressing rapeseed yielding about 50 litres of oil per hour. HERE Unlike the Kern Kraft machines these presses are physically large and they produce rapemeal in flake form rather than pellets. Since they are larger, and there are more component parts, they take more time to clean and the parts are heavy (the main screw of the YF100 can not be lifted safely by one person). However they are good value and will typically extract 320+ litres of oil per ton cold pressing in one pass. I have used these presses abroad for many years and here in the UK for rapeseed, sunflower,hazelnuts, mustard and linseed. They are low cost, simple to use and the wearing parts are very hard so they last a long time. We produced our Yellow Fields extra virgin cold pressed rapeseed oil for many years using a YF 100 and it worked well; have a look at our oil web site here. www.rapeseedoil.co.uk.

You can buy the Chinese presses as a kit or complete ready to run.

The Complete press is already on a frame with belt guards and stainless oil trays ready to use and suitable for culinary oil production. Fitted with 'low foots' screw.
The 'Kit' press is as it comes from China, this is the cheapest option - By kit I mean the press is not complete and is sold as components, without EC standard guards, no electric wiring or contactor (you will get a motor) and a very basic frame. There are various bits of tidying up to do and painting. If you can weld (or know a tame welder nearby) then it is cheaper for you to buy the press as a kit and sort out the guards etc yourself, there are various things that need to be done to the presses before they are ready to use (especially if you want to use them to make culinary oil), if you want to buy in kit form we will give you a list of what we do to bring the presses up to our standard. The kit press is popular for making oil for fuel (e.g. SVO and biodiesel).

YF PRESS COMPLETE (Chinese made, fully modified by us)

MODEL YF100 COMPLETE:
Max throughput 120 to 150 kg/hour (approx 50 litres rapeseed oil/hour).
7.5kW motor - Can be run from single phase with a converter.
Cake output as flakes.
PRICE: £4,750

MODEL YF80 COMPLETE:
Max throughput 60 to 80 kg/hour (e.g 25 litres rapeseed oil/hr)
5.5kW motor - Can be run from single phase with a converter.
Cake output as flakes
PRICE: £3,900 +VAT

or you can buy the
YF PRESS AS A KIT (Just as it comes from China, with a list of what to do)

YF100 kit: £2,500 + VAT
YF80 kit: £1,900 + VAT