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Fruit juice production line from China

Most listings called a juice production line are bottling lines. Washing, extraction, concentration and heat treatment decide yield and taste, and that is where offers say least.

Ask about this machine ↗Where the numbers come from

Written and listings checked 30 September 2026. Every figure on this page names its source.

What you are actually comparing.

Two quotes, one machine name

What hides inside the price

Extraction for your fruit

Citrus needs extractors, apples a mill and press, mango and tomato a pulper and finisher. Ask which fruit it was designed for.

Yield claim

Juice as a share of fruit weight. Ask at which fruit and ripeness it was measured.

Heat exchanger type

Pulp blocks narrow plate gaps, so cloudy juice with pulp usually needs a tubular unit.

Evaporator

With one you can make concentrate. Without one you sell juice not from concentrate.

Cleaning

Whether cleaning in place is a recorded, automatic cycle.

Before you ask for a price.

Send these with the enquiry. Without them, any number a factory gives you is a guess dressed as a quotation.

Fruit types and tonnes per hour, or whether you start from frozen pulp or concentrate.
Final product: clear, cloudy, with pulp, from concentrate or not.
Chilled or ambient, and target shelf life.
Steam, cooling water and wastewater capacity.
Where peel and pomace go.

Turn the claim into a demonstration.

Require this	A pass looks like
Run a batch of your fruit through extraction.	Juice per tonne recorded, sugar content measured, inside the offer's yield figure.
Run the pasteuriser with its recorder on.	Temperature holds at setpoint and under-heated juice is diverted back.
Run one full cleaning cycle.	Final rinse and swabs clean, cycle temperature logged.

The documents that must arrive with it.

EU Declaration of Conformity per machine and for the joined line.
Food contact declarations for product-side parts.
Pressure documents for evaporator and steam parts where 2014/68/EU applies.

The one people forget. A process flow diagram with every heat step and setpoint. Your food safety plan under Regulation (EC) 852/2004 rests on it.

When this is the wrong machine.

Buy something else if

Named, not hedged

You buy concentrate or pulp and only dilute and bottle.

A beverage bottling line with a blending room.

You press one fruit for a short season.

A batch press and batch pasteuriser, or toll processing.

Where the numbers come from.

We name the kind of source, how many and when, and never the factory. Listed prices are asking prices, not landed cost. Where we do not hold a fact we say so: that is a GAP, not an estimate.

Listings · 11Eleven fruit juice line listings, checked September 2026, advertised US$4,000 to US$500,000. Eight described only filling or packing; three described washing, extraction or pasteurising. Asking prices.
Listings · 1The one listing describing washing, depulping, syrup preparation and pasteurising asked US$500,000, checked September 2026.
GAPGAP - no supplier quotations logged for this machine yet. Three to five quotations for one configuration would give a real price spread.

Related machines.

Beverage bottling line. Choose it if you already have juice and need to fill it.
Jam processing line. Choose it if your fruit goes into cooked spreads.

Every machine we source in this area is on the Food & candy page. How a project runs, stage by stage, is on how it works, and what it costs is on pricing.

Straight answers

Questions buyers ask about this machine.

Chinese vs European fruit juice production line?+

Extraction and evaporation carry the know-how. There, a used European unit with a service record may be the better buy.

Factory audit checklist?+

Extraction on real fruit, product-side welds, pasteuriser recorder and divert valve, cleaning tanks.

EU compliance?+

2006/42/EC, or Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 from 20 January 2027, and Regulation (EC) 1935/2004. The names juice, from concentrate and nectar come from Directive 2001/112/EC and depend on your product, not the line.

Who is the EU importer?+

The EU business placing the line on the market, which names itself and checks the file.

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