Manufacturers and exporters of:
Desiccated Coconut, Banana Chips, Coconut Oil,
Coconut Fiber and Peat, Coconut Charcoal, Canned Tuna
Coconut Fiber
Coconut Husk used to be considered a waste product and the farmers
just leave it in the plantations. Today, it is a source of income for them.
Celebes, seeing the opportunity, put up its first coconut coir factory to
extract the fiber. The plant is equipped with tubs for soaking the husk,
and machines that separates the coconut husk from the shell, and a
machine to process the husk into fiber.
Coconut husks are made of bristle fiber (10%), mattress fiber (20%)
and coir dust and shorts or wastes (70%). The abundance of fiber
makes it a good, stable supply for industries that make brushes, rugs,
doormats, carpets, bags, ropes, yarn fishing nets, and mattresses, etc.
Coconut fiber or coir is natural fiber taken from by product of coconut
husk then cleaned and compressed into bales. Coconut fiber belongs
to the category fibers/fibrous materials, Coconut fiber is obtained from
the fibrous husk of the coconut. Coconut fiber have high lignin content
and thus low cellulose content, as a result of which it is resilient, strong
and highly durable. The remarkable lightness of the fibers is due to the
cavities arising from the dried out sieve cells. Coconut fiber is the only
fruit fiber usable in the textile industry.
Coconut Peat
Coconut Peat has a high lignin (31%) and cellulose (27 %) content and
a carbon-nitrogen (C/N) ratio of 104: 1. It also has a very high water
holding capacity of 5 to 6 times its weight. It should be noted that the
Coconut Peat is stable because of the presence of high percentage of
lignin. Thus, the peat left to itself takes decades to decompose. The
composted peat is used along with organic supplements in crop fields
in horticulture and floriculture. It is also used as a rooting and growing
medium for certain ornamental flowering plants. Decomposed coconut
peat is also used as hydroponics systems for growing roses and also
vegetables under controlled conditions. The coconut peat in sterilized
condition finds use in mushroom cultivation and floriculture. It is also
used as an alternative for 'Peat Moss'
Coconut Peat has a calorific value of 3975 k cal/kg, close to 4200
k cal/kg of coal. It is also used as fuel briquettes with the ash content
1/10th of coal.
