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Start a small palm oil mill

Palm fruit→Red palm oil, and kernels or kernel oil from the nuts

Red palm oil sells in every market, and the nuts left over are a second product. A small mill cooks and mashes the fruit, presses out the oil and clarifies it. Stripping the bunches can be done by hand at first.

Bigger, smaller or a different product? Describe it and we plan the line.

The line, step by step

What happens from palm fruit to red palm oil, and the machine for each step. Steps marked “add later” can be done by hand while you start.

  1. Strip

    Add later

    Separates the fruit from the bunch. Small mills often let bunches rest and strip by hand.

    Palm fruit bunch threshers
  2. Cook and mash

    Steams the fruit and mashes it so the oil comes away from the fibre.

    Palm fruit sterilisers and digesters
  3. Press

    Squeezes the oil out of the mashed fruit.

    Palm oil press
  4. Clarify

    Boils and settles the oil so water and dirt separate from it.

    Palm oil clarifiers and boiling tanks
  5. Filter

    Add later

    Clears the oil for bottling, which sells for more than oil in gallons.

    Oil filter presses
  6. Crack the nuts

    Add later

    Turns the nuts left after pressing into kernels to sell or press.

    Palm nut crackers and kernel separators

Starter line

The machines a small plant opens with. The other steps are done by hand at first. Already have one of them? Take it out on the quote form before you send, and we price the rest all-in to Accra.

  1. Palm fruit sterilisers and digestersCook and mash
  2. Palm oil pressPress
  3. Palm oil clarifiers and boiling tanksClarify

Full line

Every machine on the line, for when you are ready to grow, or to start bigger. Already have one of them? Take it out on the quote form before you send, and we price the rest all-in to Accra.

  1. Palm fruit bunch threshersStrip
  2. Palm fruit sterilisers and digestersCook and mash
  3. Palm oil pressPress
  4. Palm oil clarifiers and boiling tanksClarify
  5. Oil filter pressesFilter
  6. Palm nut crackers and kernel separatorsCrack the nuts

Power

Presses and digesters run on a diesel engine or an electric motor; the steriliser and clarifier need firewood, gas or a boiler for heat. Tell us your power and how many tonnes of fruit a day.

Grow machine by machine

Each machine can be its own order, with its own deposit and instalments. Start with the step that earns, and order the next one from what it brings in.

Starting as a group? Buy it together: each member pays their share from their own phone.

Also useful

Farming & food processing

Palm kernel oil expellers

Screw oil expellers sized for palm kernel, with filters, for small palm kernel oil mills. Made for 220V or three-phase.

Ask for our priceLowest price guaranteed. Seen it cheaper in Ghana? We match it.

In Accra 1 Jan to 15 Feb if you order by Fri 13 Nov, 6pm

Farming & food processing

Palm kernel crackers

Machines that crack palm nuts and separate kernels from shells, for small oil mills.

Ask for our priceLowest price guaranteed. Seen it cheaper in Ghana? We match it.

In Accra 1 Jan to 15 Feb if you order by Fri 13 Nov, 6pm

Machines & heavy equipment

Single-cylinder diesel engines

Small diesel engines that drive corn mills, water pumps and other machines off-grid.

Ask for our priceLowest price guaranteed. Seen it cheaper in Ghana? We match it.

In Accra 1 Jan to 15 Feb if you order by Fri 13 Nov, 6pm

Before you buy

  1. Fruit that waits too long after cutting makes oil that sours faster. Plan to process within a few days of harvest.
  2. Never add colouring to palm oil. The FDA Ghana has warned against dyed palm oil, and pure oil is what keeps buyers coming back.
  3. A mill makes a lot of waste water and fibre. Plan where they go, and ask the EPA which permit your mill needs.
  4. To sell bottled oil in shops, register it with the FDA Ghana.

Are you ready for the machines?

Tick what you already have in place. What is left shows what to sort out before you order.

  • Agree supply with farmers, aggregators or collectors before you buy machines. A plant waiting for raw material earns nothing.

  • Talk to traders, shops, schools and exporters, and take them samples. Selling is harder than making.

  • Machines need a solid floor, a roof, drainage, and room for raw stock and finished goods.

  • Ask ECG what your site has or can get. We quote machines with a diesel engine or the motor that matches your power.

  • Food plants wash a lot. A storage tank or borehole keeps you working when the supply stops.

  • Start with the machine that earns first. With Landed you pay a deposit, then the rest in any amounts while it ships, with no interest.

  • Register the business with the Office of the Registrar of Companies and get your district assembly’s business permit. Packed food, drinks and cosmetics need FDA Ghana registration.

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Buying a machine with Landed

  • One all-in price to Accra before you pay anything: the machine, shipping, duty and clearing, in writing.
  • A deposit, then the rest your way while it ships: any amount from GH₵ 50, no fixed schedule, no interest, no fee.
  • The price is locked once your deposit is paid. If the exchange rate, freight or duty change, we absorb it.
  • Straight from the factory, not a middleman, with receipt, packing and arrival photos on your tracker.
  • Your deposit back in full if the seller cannot supply your machine and you do not want an alternative.
  • Covered on the way. Lost or damaged before handover is always on us. Add Landed Protection, and a wrong, not-as-described or dead-on-arrival machine is replaced or refunded in full.
  • A free consultation first on the voltage, spare parts and servicing your machine needs.

Every case is on our refunds page. How instalments work: pay your way.