Palm and palm kernel oil production and processing in nigeria
Palm oil and palm kernel oils are produced in Nigeria from three production scale: small/medium sized scale and large scale. More than 70% of crude palm oil produced in Nigeria is consumed without refining. Crude palm oil is used for various food recipes, including frying. Refined bleached and deodorized palm olein is mainly used for food frying in the household and commercial food frying outlets. In order to learn more about Palm and palm kernel oil production and processing in nigeria. Doing Company sales team took a business trip to Nigeria for about 15 days (July 5~20, 2018). The aim of this trip is not only visiting our clients, but also getting an deep understanding of the palm oil processing plant in Nigeria, and the needs of local palm oil production industry. In this trip, our team will go to 6 cities of Africa. 6 cities of Africa , including Lagos, Abuja, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda,Ghana.
A team of Henan Doing Company took a business trip to Nigeria for about 15 days
Palm Oil Processing Industry in Nigeria
The followings are some photos took during the trip. If you are planning to start a palm oil mill plant for manufacturing palm oil or refined palm oil, feel free to get intouch weith us, and we are always glad to help you make the best business plan depending on you specific situation and needs!
Palm oil production in nigeria
The local palm oil extraction machine
Manually separate palm kernel and nut shell
The picture show us how to separate palm kernel and nut shell in local
Palm oil is a kind of plant oil made from palm fruit. It is one of the largest produced, consumed and traded oils in the world, which is called The World’s Three Major Vegetable Oils together with soybean oil and rapeseed oil. Palm oil after pressing, refining and fractionation can get different melting point products, which are widely used in catering industry, food industry and oil & fat industry. As the main production areas of palm oil, Southeast Asia and Africa produces about 88% of the world's palm oil, while Indonesia, Malaysia and Nigeria are the world's top three palm oil producers. Since global demand is on the rise, so set up the palm oil mill plant is necessary. If you want to start palm oil processing business, you need to learn about the palm oil production process.Our company is professional in manufacturing palm oil processing plant for years. At present, we research and design a new technology of palm oil processing plant, based on our rich experience in palm oil plant.
Business Outlook of Nigeria palm oil production industry
Traditionally palm oil is one of the main edible oil to the Nigerian farmers. It is also widely consumed in other African countries. The four main traditional uses of palm oil in food products are for cooking/frying oil, shortenings, and margarine and confectionary fats. Palm oil is popularly used in both solid fat products as well as in the liquid cooking oil sector especially in industrial frying applications. Palm oil is randomly produced in every nook and corner of Nigeria. Nigerians say, if they produce it commercially it will be the substitute to white-gold even oil, exporting which they can earn a lot of foreign currency which will boost up their economy as well as it will create job opportunities which will help to eradicate employment problem. That will raise the country to the level of the developed state.
Distribution of oil palm in Nigeria
The use of palm oil in food dates back 5000 years. For edible and non-edible uses, palm oil is normally refined. However, even today, unrefined palm oil is still used for cooking in certain African villages much the same way as it used to be.
Palm oil is a highly versatile oil and can be made available for food uses with a variety of physical characteristics. One common feature with refined palm oil is that it has bland flavour, pale to near-white colour and good stability against oxidation. Apart from some frying purposes, palm oil is not normally offered to the consumer as such but normally used as a constituent and ingredient in the manufacture of foods.
Major palm oil applications in food are
Cooking oil and frying fats.
Margarine and spread.
Shortening.
Sugar confectionary.
Spray dried fats and whipped emulsion.
Application of palm oil
Palm oil,Refied palm oil, palm olein,palm stearin made from palm fruit;
Palm oil extraction process:
Palm fruit/bunch → sterilization → threshing → digesting&pressing → clarification → purification →dring → CPO→ refining → bleaching → deodorizing →RBD palm oil → crystallization → fractionation → RBD olein & RBD stearin
Palm oil extraction process machinery(from palm fruit reception machine to crude palm oil machine )
Palm kernel oil extraction process:
Palm kernel →Cleaning → crushing → pressing → CPKO → refining → RBDPK oil , RBDPK olein & RBDPK stearin
Palm kernel oil extraction machine
Above is the main introduction of Palm and palm kernel oil production and processing in nigeria . If you are interested in start a palm oil processing business, this palm oil mill plant is sure to surprise you! Feel free to send us an inquiry through email if you have any questions about our palm oil extraction plant!
