Storage & Processing
Manual Wax Press
The WAX Press to Extract Beeswax!
Our view is you should only invest in a wax press if you have more than 10 bee hives which are established! By established, we mean are ready to be honey harvested!
Beekeeping can make you some serious income
A wax press works a lot like a honey press. It’s a vice operating from top to bottom and it squeezes the beeswax and honeycomb until most of the honey is pushed out into the catchment basin at the bottom and flow out into your container.
Especially useful for beekeepers that do not have electricity and still want to harvest decent volumes of honey at one time. This harvesting method can be used instead of using a honey extractor by cutting out the comb from the honey frame and completely crushing it in the Wax Press.
The wax press makes the harvesting and processing of the comb beeswax much easier for the beekeeper as the wax press compresses the beeswax while also extracting the honey.
“As you sent the 6-frame extractor by courier we got it 3 days later & I used it the same day to extract our honey in the frames! It worked wonders and thanks so much! It was totally worth the investment!
I test drove the extractor this weekend, brilliant:)
My first robbing already covered more than half the cost of my extractor :))”
Get involved with keeping bees with the most focus directed at purchasing beehives and trap boxes. The more productive honeybee colonies you have the more raw honey you harvest.
For every productive mature beehive you have, you should harvest an average of 15Kg after a nectar flow. You can chase nectar flows across the provinces and achieve multiple nectar flow harvests.
Nonetheless, at an average wholesale price of R90/kg of raw filtered honey, it would take you 40Kg of wholesale units to reach the critical point at which your honey extractor would be paid for in honey harvesting.
This translates into a minimum of 3 bee hive’s entire harvest funding the cost of the wax press.
[40kg / 15Kg per box = 3]
