Two coconut oil routes, two different factories

Wet route

The wet route means a hygienic food room, with the press as one part

A fresh-coconut VCO line runs from splitting and coconut water collection through kernel washing, trimming, and crushing into hydraulic milk pressing - the factory's Model 325CG-A reference extracts roughly 80% of the milk - and only then into oil separation, fine filtration, warm tanks, and jar or bottle filling. Wet residue must leave the room fast: the desiccated coconut dryer reference at ~5 t/day (~350 kg wet per hour) turns that residue stream into a sellable product instead of a disposal cost.

• Every wet module adds water supply, drainage, and daily cleaning time - real operating lines that never show up in a bare machine quote.
• The milk press is the heart of the route: milk extraction decides how much oil the downstream can ever recover.
• For virgin positioning, the whole chain from drying to filling stays at or below 60°C.
• Filling, labels, and cartons belong in the same scope, because the wet route only pays back at retail prices.

Dry route

The dry route buys steady throughput on dry feed

Copra at 6-8% moisture or dried meat at 10-12% enters crushing and then the press section. Continuous plants use the screw reference: Model 128 at ~160 kg/h with ~40% oil yield on dried meat. Small-batch cold-pressed positioning uses the hydraulic barrel section instead: a 60 MPa system with a 2.2 kW motor, standard Ø390×800 mm barrel taking up to 100 kg, about 2 hours per barrel and ~4.5 hours for two, on the 355-500 cold series (370-630 ton). Coconut sits on the factory's cold-press oilseed list, so this position is available without building the full wet room. Crude oil then moves through tanks and filtration toward the S600 refining reference at ~500 kg per 24 hours, bulk drums, or bottling.

• Feed-window control replaces the wet room as the daily quality lever - moisture is checked at intake and again at the press.
• Crude coconut oil is an intermediate: line up the refining handoff or a crude buyer before the press starts running.
• Cake and dried residue are real revenue lines that deserve storage and bagging space in the layout.

Positioning

Position each oil by process and presentation, not claims

The honest way to sell either oil is to describe how it was made and how it looks on the shelf. That is also the framing that survives label review in most markets.

Decision data

Six answers that settle the route before any quote

• Raw supply: whole nuts within a day's haul, or copra bought from traders?
• Daily volume: nuts per day or tonnes of copra per month, estimated honestly.
• Water and milk: can coconut water or milk be sold locally, or is oil the only product?
• Hygiene capability: is a washable room with drainage and trained staff realistic on this site?
• Buyer and package: retail jars under your own brand, or bulk crude to a refiner?
• Utilities and budget: available power, heat source, and the investment gap between the two scopes.

Project boundary

What to confirm before scoping VCO Wet Route vs Copra Dry Route

VCO Wet Route vs Copra Dry Route should not be quoted from an equipment name alone. Check feed lots, target oil, post-press handling, and packing rhythm in one scope before deciding which Coconut Oil Press modules stay. Coconut may be VCO on 355–500 cold, or a complete multi-product line (325 milk + 128 screw + refine).

When feed condition, moisture, impurities, batch weight, and product position are unclear, press tonnage and filter area become guesswork. Factory systems share 60 MPa and 2.2 kW motors; hot pure press is 30–40 min/barrel and cold pure press is ~2 h/barrel — cycle time matters more than brochure tonnage.

• Confirm whether feed is whole seed, kernels, pretreated material, or an existing semi-finished stream.
• Confirm whether the target is crude oil, filtered oil, bottled oil, drum ingredient oil, or a refining handoff.
• Hot cycle reference: pure press 30-40 min/barrel, ~1.5 h for 2 barrels with loading; cold pure press ~2 h/barrel, ~4.5 h for 2 barrels.
• Confirm batch rhythm, labor, changeover, retained samples, power (often 380V/50Hz/3ph), and site install conditions.

Factory model check

Match hot / cold models to factory hard data

Pin models to published factory specs before tonnage talk.

Hot 300/325: 300–325 ton, 60 MPa system, standard barrel Ø390×800 mm / max 100 kg, pure press 30–40 min/barrel, ~1.5 h for 2 barrels with loading, 2.2 kW motor. Cold 355/400/426/480/500: 370–630 ton, integrated frame, same 100 kg standard barrel, pure press ~2 h/barrel, ~4.5 h for 2 barrels with loading; optional Ø300 high-pressure barrel max 60 kg. Residual oil target ~≤5% (peanut hot often 6–8% measured).

• Standard barrel Ø390×800 mm, max ~100 kg crushed feed; optional Ø300 high-pressure barrel max ~60 kg.
• Cylinder material 27SiMn; cold frames are integrated molded steel; hot frames are typically H-type channel steel.
• Coconut may be VCO on 355–500 cold, or a complete multi-product line (325 milk + 128 screw + refine).

Equipment check

Coconut routes needs to land in equipment interfaces

Once the route is clear, write the interfaces: how preparation feeds the press, how oil leaves the press, how filtration connects to tanks, and how packing receives finished oil.