Granexport Manufacturing Corporation is a coconut oil mill located in Kiwalan, Iligan City. Their raw material is the coconut meat commonly known as “copra” which has 64% oil content.

PROCESSES

OIL MILLING

SOLVENT EXTRACTION

REFINING

DEODORIZING

ACIDULATION

PELLETIZING

SHORTENING

SUPPORT FACILITIES

Copra Warehouse

Pellet Warehouse

CNO Tanks (Crude Coconut Oil Tanks)

Processed Oil Tanks

Edible Oil Tanks

Acidulated Oil Tanks

Copra Loading and Unloading Facility

Pier Wharf

Vessels

PRODUCTS

Refined Bleached Oil

Refined Bleached Deodorized Oil

Acidulated Oil

Vegetable Shortening (Minola Oil)

Crude Coconut Oil (CNO)

Solvent Extraction Pellet

Charcoal

Magnets are installed in conveyors to remove metals from the unloaded copra

Size reduction

Hogs – primary grinders

Cracking rolls – secondary grinders

Conditioner - drying

Flakers – 6 mesh size

Expellers – mechanical pressing to extract oil

- 15-18 % residual oil in cake

Filtration

Refining

Copra cake from expellers undergoes continuous washing with hexane to remove oil.

Desolventizing/Toasting to remove hexane

Pelletizing

Stored….

Quality Control

Oil Content

- Soxhlet extraction apparatus Petroleum ether hexane

Moisture Content

-oven method

- brown duvell

- NIR Spectrometer

- Moisture Balance Analyzer

Residual Oil Content

FFA (Free Fatty Acid Analysis) (0.03)

Oil Color

Boiler Water Analysis

pH, TDS, Total Hardness, P-alkaline, M-alkaline, OH, SO3, Silica, PO4