Agro Palm Oil press

Agro Palm Oil press covers palm fruit and palm kernel processing equipment: sterilisers, threshers that strip fruit from the bunch, digesters, screw and hydraulic presses, clarification and oil purification, and the nut and kernel handling that follows including kernel crackers and separators. Palm processing has to happen quickly after harvest, because free fatty acid rises in the fruit within days and takes the oil grade and the price with it.

That is why small and medium mills sited close to the plantations are so common and so commercially sensible. Sterilising the bunches is the stage that stops the enzymatic activity and loosens the fruit, and skipping or shortening it is the most frequent cause of poor extraction and high acidity. Press type then determines oil recovery, with screw presses giving continuous operation and hydraulic presses suiting smaller intermittent batches.

Palm oil processing is heavily tendered and heavily donor-funded across West and Central Africa and South East Asia. Agriculture ministries, palm oil and oilseed development programmes, co-operatives and farmer producer organisations, rural enterprise and women's processing schemes, state plantation corporations, and oil palm value chain projects financed by development banks and agricultural funds all procure through bidding. Offers are built directly from the tender document and include extraction rate figures, utility and steam requirements, origin and warranty declarations, priced spares lists, commissioning and training scope and inspection arrangements.

Send us your fresh fruit bunch intake per day and whether you need kernel processing as well, and we will specify the mill and quote it.