Pepipom

About Pepipom

Pépipom is a Belgian mobile apple-pressing service that turns customers’ own apples into fresh juice on site. It serves private individuals, communities, schools, farms, and local organizations that want a convenient way to process seasonal fruit without transporting it to a fixed facility.

The company positions itself around local production, short supply chains, and a practical service model: the press comes to the customer, the apples are processed immediately, and the resulting juice is returned in a ready-to-store format. Its website emphasizes healthy juice, local sourcing from the customer’s own fruit, and a transparent, all-in pricing approach.

Core Values

• Local and short-chain production: Pépipom stresses that juice is produced locally from the customer’s own apples, supporting a nearby, low-transport model.
• Environmental responsibility: The company says it aims to reduce ecological impact, use resources sparingly, favor renewable resources, and avoid biocides and GMOs.
• Social solidarity: Its stated commitments highlight local cooperation, mutual support, fair redistribution, and attention to collective interest over individual profit.
• Education and autonomy: Pépipom presents itself as a learning-oriented organization that values training, shared skills, and the transmission of its transition-minded approach.

Unique Aspects

• Fully mobile production line: The entire juice-making process, from sorting and washing to pasteurization and packaging, is integrated on one trailer, allowing processing at the customer’s location.
• Customer’s own fruit: The service is built around pressing apples supplied by the customer, which gives people direct control over the origin of the juice.
• High yield and sanitary process: The website states that the press can achieve up to 70% yield and includes washing, filtration, decantation, and flash pasteurization for food safety.
• Transition-oriented commitments: Pépipom publishes a detailed set of commitments inspired by a local transition charter, covering economic ethics, social solidarity, environmental care, citizenship, training, cooperation, and coherence.
• Local currency acceptance: The company says it accepts local currencies including Lumsou, Talent, and Volti, reinforcing its local-economy positioning.
• Leadership continuity: Its blog states that Quentin took over the activity in May 2024 after collaborating with Pépipom since 2019.