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Granexport Manufacturing Corporation is a coconut oil mill located in Iligan City that processes copra into various coconut oil products. The mill uses several processes like solvent extraction, refining, deodorizing, and acidulation to produce products like refined bleached oil, vegetable shortening, and acidulated oil. Quality control testing is conducted to analyze properties such as oil content, moisture content, free fatty acid levels, and color.

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Granex Summary

Granexport Manufacturing Corporation is a coconut oil mill located in Iligan City that processes copra into various coconut oil products. The mill uses several processes like solvent extraction, refining, deodorizing, and acidulation to produce products like refined bleached oil, vegetable shortening, and acidulated oil. Quality control testing is conducted to analyze properties such as oil content, moisture content, free fatty acid levels, and color.

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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.

Refined Bleached Oil Refined Bleached Deodorized Oil Acidulated Oil Vegetable Shortening (Minola Oil)

PROCESSES OIL MILLING SOLVENT EXTRACTION REFINING DEODORIZING ACIDULATION PELLETIZING SHORTENING

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

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

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.

PRODUCTS

Quality Control

Oil Content Soxhlet extraction apparatus Petroleum ether hexane

- Moisture Balance Analyzer

Residual Oil Content FFA (Free Fatty Acid Analysis) (0.03) Oil Color

Moisture Content

-oven method - brown duvell - NIR Spectrometer

Boiler Water Analysis pH, TDS, Total Hardness, P-alkaline, Malkaline, OH, SO3, Silica, PO4

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