• How a copra Machine Works?
  • An all-in-one machine, it crushes and presses the copra or coconut, follow by oil extraction. Traditionally, the copra or coconut are pressed and crushed and transferred to another machine to be extracted. Muar Ban Lee Group is a copra oil expeller manufacturer specializes in copra oil expellers, copra machines, copra machines crushing plant.
  • What is copra used for?
  • Copra, after extraction of oil, leaves a residue which is palatable oil cake (or copra meal or mash). It is used in animal feeds, mainly for ruminants. It is used as fodder for horses, cattle, sheep and deer. Its high protein content (and oil content) is fattening for stock.
  • How much coconut oil is in a copra meal?
  • The solvent extracted copra meal can still contain residual 2 to 4% coconut oil. Processing dry copra through expellers generally offers about 60% yield (as high as 70%) of coconut oil based of dry weight. About 30 to 40% is oil cake.
  • What is copra oil expeller?
  • Copra Oil Expeller is perfect for medium or large oil mill plants. We are well-known manufacturer of oil extraction machine and our screw press are working successfully in more then 51 countries of the world.
  • How is dry copra extracted?
  • More commonly, the dry copra is first extracted by the solvent-free method using expellers to obtain better quality coconut oil. Then the residue is processed through solvent extraction plant using food-grade hexane as a solvent to extract the residual coconut oil (8 to 12%). Dry copra may be extracted directly in solvent extraction plants.
  • How much coconut oil is in 170 kg copra?
  • It¡¯s mentioned that copra has 60-70% oil, but then it further says 1000 coconut weighs 1440kg which yields 170 kg copra ie 11.8% from which 70 lit of coconut oil can be produced. Now 60% of 170 kg copra is 102 kg or 112 lit of coconut oil not 70 lit. Where is the error.