ANNEX 1: Major manufacturers and designers of palm processing equipment in Africa

BENIN

CAMEMEC
BP 8202 Cotonou, Benin

This company is an affiliate manufacturer of crop-processing machines designed by IITA. The company produces the full range of palm oil processing machinery.

The nutcracker, kernel/shell separator and palm kernel expeller are produced to handle palm kernel. The expeller has machined flights on a single shaft with threaded backpressure cone.

Generally machines are produced having a 1 tonne/hr capacity for palm oil while the palm kernel machines have rated throughputs of 150-250 kg/hr.

Equipment includes:

CENTRE DE FORMATION TECHNIQUE MSGR. STEINMETZ (CFTS)

This centre is a Catholic Church institution for technical vocational training, which makes all the unit operational machines from threshing to clarification and storage. The design of machines is undertaken in-house.

SOCIETE POUR LA PROMOTION COMMERCIALE & INDUSTRIELLE (S O P C I)
BP 0247, Cotonou, Benin
Tel: 30.76.54.

The company manufactures the Caltech press for palm oil extraction but focuses mainly on producing palm kernel processing machinery:

CENTRE SONGHAI
BP 597 Porto Novo, Rep. de Benin.
Tel.: 229-22.50.92; 22.28.81/84; E-mail: [email protected]

Songhai is a private non-governmental organization the central objective is to develop agriculture with strong links to industry. The aim is to train people to farm and then process agricultural products into food items.

The following items are manufactured for the palm oil industry:

CAMEROON

AMDALE Sarl
BP 2921, Douala, Cameroon
Tel: 42.53.54

The company designs and manufactures any kind of palm oil/kernel processing machinery on demand.

Main items manufactured:

OUTILS POUR LES COMMUNAUTE (OPC)
BP 5946, Douala, Cameroon
Tel. 37 04 32

This company continues to add to the machinery and equipment delivered to the palm oil industry, and also manufactures machinery to process other crops such as cassava, maize and rice.

OPC palm oil and palm kernel machinery production

SERMI
BP 17123, Douala, Cameroon
Sis Rue 4 509 Bonaberi
Tel: 237-39.14.22; 93.96.85

SERMI manufactures complete palm oil and palm kernel oil mills to order. The company works with private farmers having an average holding of 1 500 ha and design custom-made medium-scale plants for the estates. Twin-screw type presses are manufactured and supplied to medium-scale processors.

The following palm oil processing equipment is manufactured:

For smallholders (200-400 ha) the company produces:

NIGERIA

FAITH ENGINEERING WORKSHOP (FEW)
c/o Nova Technologies, Ibadan

The company makes machinery for the vegetable oils and animal feed industries and collaborates with Nova Technologies in the manufacture of other machines.

Items produced for the palm kernel processing industry include:

Plant equipment:

NIGERIAN INSTITUTE FOR OIL PALM RESEARCH (NIFOR)
206 Benin - Lagos Road, Ugbowo, Benin City, Nigeria
(Tel 052-602-485; 602-486); E-mail [email protected]

NIFOR concentrates on the manufacture and supply of three models of palm oil processing machinery for the small-scale processor.

These are:

NIFOR Mini (250 kg/hr)

The throughput of the NIFOR-Mini set is nominally 250 kg/hr with an extraction rate of 12 to 13 percent on fresh fruit bunches. NIFOR supplies this unit only as a starter set for small-scale operators.

NIFOR Medium (Capacity 0.25 to 0.5 tonnes/hr).

The components for the medium capacity mills are:

The digester and screw-press are combined and operated using one prime mover, usually a diesel 6.5 hp engine

NIFOR-Large (0.5 to 1.5 tonnes/hr)

NIFOR also manufactures 10 tonne metallic tanks for oil storage, which are heated with re-circulated steam or hot water around internal tubes.

NOVA TECHNOLOGIES (NIG) LTD.
U.I. PO BOX 19825, Ibadan
Tel 234-02-810-3960

Nova Technologies manufactures the 200 kg/hr vertical digester, spindle press and palm nutcracker. Bunch strippers may also be constructed for the threshing of fresh quartered fruit.

Clarifiers are manufactured but there is not much demand for the decanter attachment. Processors prefer the open kettle clarifiers.

OGUNOROKE STEEL CONSTRUCTION WORKS LTD.
Opp. NISER Ajibode Junction, Orogun, Ibadan, Box 21542 UI Ibadan
Tel 234-02-810-7545

This is a small-scale artisanal manufacturer that works as a sub-contractor to Nova Technologies.

OSCW produces a nutcracker and expeller for palm kernel processing. The expeller works on palm kernels that have not been pre-treated. The gear reduction unit is made from adapted automobile transmission gear assemblies.

GHANA

AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERS LTD (AGRICO)
PO Box 12127, Accra North, Ghana
Tel: 233-21- 228.260; 228. 292

AGRICO product range includes farm machinery and implements, crop-handling and processing equipment for sugar, rice, maize, cassava and fruit.

The following palm oil processing machinery is produced:

The company imports palm kernel expellers from India for resale.

CORT ENGINEERING SERVICES COMPANY LTD.
P.O. Box AN 12982, Accra-North, Ghana
Tel: 233-21- 50.21.26. E-mail: [email protected]

Cort Engineering Services developed the ‘wet’ flushing type palm oil extractor in response to a consulting assignment in Malawi. The flushing digester/press takes in boiled fruit and delivers, separated palm oil in water ready for clarification, well-washed nuts and fibre. The entire combination of processes (fruit digestion, oil extraction, fibre-nut separation) is undertaken in one machine. The company has also developed a prototype one pass digester/screw-press combination palm oil extractor that is being field-tested.

FATECO
P.O. Box 9899
Airport, Accra
Tel: 233.21.663114 / 303029

This company manufactures the full range of palm oil and palm kernel oil processing machinery.

Produces to order:

HORMEKU ENGINEERING WORKS (HEW)
P.O. Box 20, Ashaiman, Tema
Tel: 233- 22.30.78.11

Hormeku Engineering Works manufactures a wide range of machinery and equipment including crop dryers, rice and maize processing lines as well as palm oil and palm kernel lines.

The palm oil line comprises:

The palm kernel line comprises: