From Hives To Honey - Finlay Wax Melters

At From Hives To Honey, we understand that beekeepers and crafters need to process beeswax efficiently and cleanly. Our wax melters are designed to help you easily purify your beeswax and recover your melter honey, saving you time and effort while providing maximum return.

Why Use a Wax Melter?

Beeswax is a valuable byproduct of beekeeping, but raw wax often contains impurities such as honey, propolis, and debris from the beehive. A Finlay wax melter simplifies the process by gently heating the wax to remove these contaminants, resulting in clean, high-quality beeswax that is ready for candle making, cosmetics, or other uses.

The Finlay wax melter can also be used to melt old brood comb, reducing disease profiles in your beekeeping operation and recovering the beeswax, instead of destroying this old comb by burial or paying to ship it to the landfill.

Our Finlay Wax Melters

We offer a large and a small Finlay wax melter, with both using a digital temperature controller to obtain the optimum temperature for your job at hand. The option to add water to float the liquid beeswax to the top of the melter, and then draw the purified beeswax from the center of the melter allows your wax to have essentially no debris after melting.

Large Finlay wax melter

  • will hold approximately 1-⅓ barrels of cappings wax (one cycle per day), or 45 brood frames (2 cycles per day, or 90 brood frames)

Small Finlay wax melter

  • will hold approximately 12 gallons of cappings wax for processing raw beeswax
  • will fit a 5 gallon pail of crystallized honey inside for melting, or softening if you wish to re-package honey after the honey season is complete
  • a simple attachment (not included) will allow you to turn this into a honey creamer
  • blocks of rendered beeswax can be re-melted, and this unit can be used to liquify beeswax for candle production.

See if you Qualify for Funding!

The Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership provides funding, up to a maximum, for Saskatchewan beekeepers to improve Biosecurity and livestock health on their farm. Through this program, you may be eligible for up to 50% funding on the purchase of a new wax melter. Ask how we can confirm your eligibility!

Do you have questions about which wax melter is best for you? Our team will be happy to help.