Sunflower & Pumpkin Seeds Cleaning Production Line – 3 Tons/H Custom Solution for Egypt Agricultural Processor

This sunflower and pumpkin seed cleaning line was tailor-made for a Egypt agricultural processor. It was optimised for the region’s Mediterranean climate, which results in high-moisture sunflower seeds, and clay-rich soils, which result in surface dirt on pumpkin seeds. It also meets the client’s core demand for a continuous cleaning capacity of 3 tons/h.

The line's four core modules achieve a throughput of three tons per hour and 99% cleanliness, solving the client's previous issues of low processing capacity and inconsistent purity.

• Air-screen Cleaner: The 1.2 mm and 2.5 mm screens (for sunflower and pumpkin) work to screenout large impurities at 3 tons per hour, with no need the separate lines for individual materials. It can meet 5% of stones and metal removing to protect equipment by TQSX-175Grain De-stoner.

• Gravity Separator: Winds of 15–18 m/s clear dust and hulls (old fixed line with 88% purity).
• Grain Polisher: Remove the cuticlefrom pumpkin seeds as 3 tons per hour.

Key Performance Metrics

• Capacity: Stable 3 tons/h (exactly matches the client’s daily 30-ton processing target for sunflower/pumpkin seed);
• Cleanliness Rate: Consistent 99% (up from 88% with their old manual + basic machine setup—no more failed purity checks);
• Reliability: Installed in mid-2023;

This solution resolved the client’s most pressing issues: Their old process required five workers to reach a throughput of 1.8 tons per hour and still failed one in three export purity inspections. Now, the 3-tonne/hour line cuts labour costs by 70%, achieves 99% cleanliness in every batch and has increased their EU export sales by 55% in a year. As the client said: 'We used to slow down to avoid impurities — now we run at full capacity and never worry about rejected orders.'