Copra meal and expeller pellets
The protein cake left when the oil is pressed out of copra. It sells on its analysis, and one number on that analysis can turn a container away: aflatoxin.
Copra is the dried kernel of the coconut. Pressing the oil out of it leaves copra meal, sold as meal, cake or pellets, which goes into dairy and cattle rations and, at lower inclusion, into poultry and aquaculture feed. Pelleting makes it denser and less dusty, which helps freight and handling.
It is bought on crude protein and residual oil. Expeller meal is pressed mechanically and keeps more oil, and so more energy; solvent-extracted meal keeps less. Either way it competes with the other oilseed meals a feed mill could use instead, and it is priced against them.
Aflatoxin decides whether a shipment is accepted at all. It comes from mould, and mould comes from moisture — in the copra before it is pressed, and in a warm hold after. Get aflatoxin and moisture on the certificate of analysis, and test at load port rather than finding out at Karachi.
Specifications
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| HS code | 2306.50 (oil-cake and other solid residues of coconut or copra) |
| Forms | Meal, expeller cake, pellets |
| Grades | Expeller (mechanically pressed); solvent-extracted |
| Key specs | Crude protein %, residual oil %, crude fibre %, moisture %, aflatoxin, sand and silica |
| Certifications | Phytosanitary; fumigation; certificate of analysis showing protein, oil, moisture and aflatoxin |
We are completing supplier verification on this family. Minimum order, lead time and port of loading are quoted per enquiry. Ask us and we will tell you what we have confirmed and what we have not.
Price logic
Protein and residual oil set the price, and copra meal is bought when it is cheaper per unit of protein and energy than the meal it replaces. Moisture and aflatoxin decide whether that price holds at discharge: put maximum limits in the contract and test before loading. Supply follows Indonesian copra crushing, so availability moves with the coconut oil trade rather than with feed demand.