Myanmar Edible Oil Seed Processing Industry Analysis

Overview of Myanmar Oil Seed Processing Industry
Myanmar is a significant producer of oil seed crops. Approximately 16 percent of the cultivated area or nearly 7.5 million acres of land are sown with oil crops, which is the third most important crop group in Myanmar agriculture after cereals and pulses. The most extensive and traditional oilseed crop is sesame and the next is peanut also called groundnut . Up to now, it is world’s largest producer of sesame seeds and the yield of sesame seed is above world average level; while groundnut production ranks on the sixth position and for mustard seeds on the third position. However, the qualified oil extracted from the oilseeds is limited which is mainly for domestic use. The oil processing industry is underdeveloped in Myanmar and the reason can attribute to the export prohibition in the early years and the poor development of the oil extraction technology.

Myanmar Has Large Potential for the Development of Oilseed and Vegetable Oil Industry
♦ Sesame seed and sesame oil

Sesame is the most extensively grown oilseed crop in Myanmar. It occupies an estimated 43 percent of the total oil crops plantation area, about 1.6mn hectares, which is the highest among all oil crops in the country. Myanmar leads the world in the production of sesame(around one fifth of the global production), and produces 50 percent more sesame than the next biggest producer, India. In 2009, Myanmar overtook China and India to become the world’s largest sesame producer. The country produced a total of 890,000 tonnes of sesame in 2013, accounting for nearly 20 percent of the global production.
Although Myanmar is the world’s largest sesame producer , its share of global trade is less than three percent. The value added product made from sesame such as sesame oil, sesame paste is seldom exported to foreign market. Besides, there is little international demand for Myanmar’s low quality sesame oil production. Therefor there exist significant profit potential in producing high quality sesame oil production for markets such as Japan, China and Korea. Myanmar’s current oilseed processing technology and infrastructure is simply incapable of producing abundant oilseeds products especially the edible oil to meet the global specifications.

♦ Groundnut and groundnut oil

As for groundnut, Myanmar increased its production of groundnuts at a rather constant pace since 2003. The production increased from 0.9m tonnes in 2003 to 1.4m tonnes in 2013, making it the sixth largest producer of groundnuts in the world. The production value of groundnut accounts for nearly 5 percent of Myanmar’s agriculture GDP and it occupies 24 percent of the oilseeds crops plantation area in the country, which is the second highest among all oilseed crops. The oil content of groundnuts seeds (without pods) is really high around 42-56%, therefor the groundnuts are mainly used for oil extraction and for domestic demand of the edible oil.
Since groundnuts play a very important role in Myanmar’s edible oil industry, its export has been controlled tightly by the government since the late 1980’s and is largely banned. The strict restrictive policy constrain the development of the local oilseeds industries to a large extent.
♦ Current edible oil supply and demand in Myanmar
At present, the annual production of the vegetable oil is around 0.5million ton, and every year there are still 0.35 million tons mainly the palm oil to be imported from foreign countries. With the increasing growing population in recent years, the domestic demand for the edible oil is becoming large. To solve the long-term severe shortage of the edible oil, how to achieve the self-sufficient is a top priority.

The Current Situation of the Myanmar Oil Processing Plant
The majority of oil millers in Myanmar have poor oil making equipment and operate on a small scale. Many small scale oil millers are generally located near the villages and extracted oil for their own consumption by using the traditional processing methods---a male water buffalo “one ox power engine”. The oil drizzles out of the bottom of the oil press machine and collects in the small container just beside the mill operator’s left foot. The peanut meal that remains after grinding process is fed to chickens and oxen. Frankly, this kind of oil processing is time-consuming, low-efficient and the quality can not be guaranteed. Besides, related processing equipment made in Myanmar are out of design which result in the yields of low quality edible oil and cause waste. Many oil millers are aware of the need to update their equipment and increase their production.

How to Extract High Quality Vegetable Oil For Myanmar Oil Processing Industry
Traditional edible oil processing technology has fallen behind the global trend, therefore it’s urgent to update the current edible oil production equipment to improve the productivity.
● For the production of high quality peanut oil
1. Shelling process of peanut
The first step for making peanut oil is to remove the shells of peanuts and separate them from peanut kernels by using automatic peanut shelling machine.

2. Peeling process of peanut kernels
In order to get pure peanut oil, the red skin of peanut kernels should be removed. Antiquated peanut peeling methods can not support the large scale peeling process and it’s labor and time consuming. An advanced peanuts peeling machine is the way to solve this problem. Automatic peanut peeling machine is suitable for many scale business which is specially designed for removing the red skin coat of the peanuts and making the peanuts taste much savorier. And at the same time, automatic peanuts peeling machine keeps the peanut kernels as integral as possible.
3. Roasting process of peanut
In this step, peanuts are roasted in peanut roasting machine. High cooking temperature of peanut roasting machine can make internal oil material move freely and easy to get out. Roasted peanuts have high oil extraction rate and low residual rate.
4. Pressing process of peanut oil
Roasted peanut kernels are pressed by automatic oil press machine which is equipped with automatic temperature control system and oil filtering device to get quality peanut oil.
5. Peanut oil refining process
There are mainly five basic processing steps of peanut refinery: degumming, neutralizing, bleaching, deodorising and dewaxing. Refined peanut oil have bright and pure color and are healthier to people.

● For the production of quality sesame oil
1. Cleaning process of sesame seeds
Before extraction of sesame oil, clean the oilseeds is also significant. Some people argue that cleaning is unnecessary, but actually it is really important. Using clean oilseeds can guarantee high sesame oil output and the quality of the extracted sesame oil. The cleaning process of sesame is taken by sesame cleaning machine, which aims to remove the stones, dusts and any other impurities from the sesame seeds easily and effectively.
2. Roasting process of sesame seeds
After roasting process of sesame roasting machine. After roasted, sesame seeds present pleasant flavor and become crisp and thus the sesame seed oil is palatable.
3. Pressing process of sesame oil
Compared to traditional mill, a high performance seed oil press machine is more helpful. In order to save time, save labor and get high quality sesame oil wih high oil extraction rate, automatic screw oil press is recommended for Myanmar sesame oil mills. Automatic screw oil press machine can squeeze and filter oil at the same time.

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Brazilian Castor Oil Industry Report

Overview of Brazil Castor Bean Production

Castor is a member of the Euphorbiaceae family that is found across all the tropical and semi-tropical regions of the world with the major producing countries India, China and Brazil accounting for around 80 to 90 percent of the world total production volume. Although international trade of the castor oil and its derivatives are at a very nascent stage in the global market, it has been used in a wide number of industries and applications including paper, plastic, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals,textile, lubricants, paints and etc. because of its unique chemical structure and high economic value. Therefor the development of castor oil production business gets more support in a lot of countries. In the past few years, strong industrial demand for the castor oil from Brazil and global market greatly exceed the production and supply .
Presently, castor is cultivated on approximately 100,000 hectares (approximately 250,000 acres) in Brazil, an area that can substantially increase with the introduction of advanced varieties and new-modern cultivation practices. In 2014, the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), and Evogene Ltd. announced the signing of a joint research agreement between Embrapa and Evofuel Ltd., Evogene’s wholly-owned subsidiary, for the advancement of castor cultivation in Brazil. The cooperation will primarily focus on technologies for controlling castor-specific diseases as well as practices for castor cultivation in rotation with soybean. Castor is a high value crop plantation in Brazil.

Vast application and Potential Market for Future Development of Brazil Castor Oil 
Commercialization of castor oil and its derivatives are at a very nascent stage in the global market. Global castor oil & derivatives market demand was 653.0 kilo tons in 2012, and the demand is still highly increasing this year which will bring Brazil continuous incentive for the development of the castor oil industry. The oil extracted from the castor bean (Ricinus Communis) already has a growing international market, assured by more than 700 uses, ranging from medicines and cosmetics to substituting petroleum in the manufacturing of Biodiesel, plastics and lubricants.
For industrial applications, Brazil castor oil can competes with most typical temperature climate edible oils, such as soy oil, canola oil, cottonseed oil and to a lesser extent with tropical oils, such as coconut and palm oil.

Fatty acid composition of Brazilian castor oil

Sebacic acid was the largest consumed castor oil derivatives in 2013 and accounted for over 40% of the overall market consumption. Widespread application base of sebacic acid is expected to remain a key driving factor for this segment. Castor wax is expected to witness the highest growth from 2014 to 2020, owing to its gaining acceptance in cosmetics, lubrication, coatings and greases applications. Dehydrated castor oil and other derivatives are expected to witness steady growth over the next six years.
Cosmetics and pharmaceuticals are also the big application segment and accounted for just over one-fourth of total market volume in 2013. Growth of personal care industry coupled with increasing health-care infrastructure particularly in emerging markets of Asia Pacific and South America is expected to remain a key driving factor for this segment. Surface coating is expected to witness maximum growth over the forecast period. Growing R&D investment to broaden the application base for castor oil & derivatives is expected to fuel their demand over the forecast period. Surge in demand for biodiesel is also expected to have positive impact on the global castor oil & derivatives market.
Castor oil is one of the potential feedstock for biodiesel production.Growing demand for biodiesel in various countries such as Germany, France, U.S., Canada and many others are expected to increase their need for the castor oil.

Castor Oil Production Processes in Brazil
The seed of castor oil plant is the castor bean while it is not a true bean. Castor seed is the source of castor oil, which has a wide variety of uses. The castor seed contain 40%-60% oil that is rich in Ricinoleic Acid. Castor oil and its by-products are mainly used in the manufacturing of soaps, lubricants, paints, dyes, coating, inks, cold resistant plastics, waxes, nylon and pharmacy. The production of castor oil in Brazil is well established. Castor essential oil also have beauty functions. The whole processing process are mainly divided into three steps, shelling/dehulling of castor seeds, pressing of castor oil and castor oil refining.
► Shelling process of castor bean

Different with the shelling process of the sunflower seed and the groundnuts, it’s more complex and difficult to shell the castor seeds due to their small size and compact castor beans. In view of the fact that castor seeds are small in size and there are little clearance between shell and kernel, so if there are quantity of castor seeds need to be shelled, a specialized castor seed shelling machine with low frequency will be helpful to achieve the good shelling performance.
Besides, based on your different scale business, optimum equipment can be chose no matter you are in oil crushing industry with castor been kernels or in pharmaceutical industry made of castor bean shells or husks.
► Pressing process of castor oil
After shelling of the castor seeds, next come to the most crucial step of the whole process-pressing of castor oil. Castor beans can be extracted using traditional pre-press, solvent extraction. While in the castor oil pressing process, the performance of the oil press machine plays an important role and has a direct impact of the oil quality and yield.
► Refining of castor oil
Refining is an essential process for a complete castor oil pressing line because there are still some impurities such as phospholipids, FFA, pigment, odor,etc. Main steps of castor oil refining are crude castor oil degumming, neutralization, bleaching, deodorization and dewaxing(necessary for cold pressed castor oil).

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What Are Differences Between Hot Pressed Oil and Cold Pressed

In our daily life, we are faced with two kinds of edible oil production.One is hot pressed oil, the other is cold pressed oil. Based on this classification, some people will ask which kind of edible oil is better and how to chose the most suitable one to satisfy the various application. Hard to answer this question exactly, for different people have different opinions about the question. Personally,I think both hot pressing and cold pressing have their pros&cons. Here we will discuss this question in detail.

What Are Hot Pressed Oil and Cold Pressed Oil?In our daily life, the most common edible oil we use is hot pressed oil. But recent years with the people’s improved living standard, cold pressed oil become more and more popular. The main difference between cold and hot pressing does not affect the pressing equipment to a great extent, rather it has implications for the preparation of the input material. Due to the different preparation,the input material has different characteristics in case of the two pressing methods, which require different press configurations. The configuration and some other settings are basically the differences between press units for cold and hot pressing.
Just as the name implies, cold pressing means pressing under low temperature, the oil seeds can be pressed without roasting. While hot pressing is pressing under high temperature, the oil seeds are pressed after roasting. So next,we will talk about the question from the following three aspects.

Cold Pressed oil VS Hot Pressed Oil
 Different processing technology
The production process of the two methods is different. The cold pressing of oil seeds does not need any pre-conditioning of the input material, which is pressed directly at room temperature. The oil temperature is low(must below 49℃), and the acid value is also relatively low. So there is no need to refine.We should get the oil products after precipitation and filtration. While different from the cold pressing,when produce some seeds oil we had better heat the seeds up or add chemicals to help the oil keep its fragrant and improve the oil yield,like sesame and peanut. Also, the color of the raw oil is relatively dark after high temperature treatment, the acid value will rise,so the crude oil can be edible only after refining. Refining means removing the impurity, reducing the stone particles content and stabilizing the fatty acid value by using metering pump, oil filter, vacuum pump and so on.
 Different nutrition value
To be frank,cold pressing oil is more safe and nutrient. It could avoid the adverse effects caused by traditional high temperature,retain the physiological active substance and its original taste and flavor. It is a pretty good choice for healthy life. Compared with the cold pressed oil, hot pressed oil will lose some nutrients after high temperature processing. But some oil seeds are different, which have to be roasted under high temperature before pressing. For example,soybean oil contains beany flavor, high erucic acid ,rapeseed oil contains biting taste, cotton seed is with toxin gossypol, deteriorating oil material has aflatoxin, etc. They all need refining to remove the taste. Besides, hot pressing is a must suitable for some oil seeds, such as sesame and peanut, hot pressing can keep the flavor and fragrant of the oil, at the some time, improve the taste and oil yield.
 Different market of application
Cold pressed oil is nice and light in color. There is no foam when frying. But it’s not so fragrant, and may have unripe flavor, tasting not so good. Hot pressed oil has a pure flavor. It’s fragrant, especially sesame and peanut which have rich oil. The disadvantage is that there will be foam when frying if without processing. But just simple treatment can solve this problem.
As consumers, if you like fragrant flavor, you can purchase hot pressed oil. The edible vegetable oil we usually use in our life is hot pressed oil. But recent years, people have larger demand for healthiness and quality so the cold pressed oil is becoming more and more favored. It doesn’t destroy the cell of the grease and linoleic acid tissue, and is more green and healthy. For cold pressing we usually use hydraulic oil press, while generally we use screw oil press for hot pressing.

How to Choose the Suitable Oil Press Machine?
When you are choosing an oil press machine, don't forget to take these factors into account. If you want to produce quality oil with very little amount, you are going to buy a cold press oil machine. However if you are going to produce large amount of oil at a very short time, you should buy hot press oil machines instead.
A hot pressing machine is best if you are looking for large amounts of oil. Hot pressing machine is the best choice on the subject of extracting extensive quantities of oil out of oil bearing materials. By heating the seed paste, it is possible to let the coagulation process much faster thereby making it simpler to extract a great deal of oil from oil bearing materials. The other advantage of the hot pressing machines is that they can extract oil at a very short time. For commercial ventures, a hot pressing oil machine is the greatest since quantity affects the profit margin. More oil means more money.
As to the cold pressing,the oil produced by this methods are of great high quality. During cold extraction, ripe fruit or seeds are ground to a paste which is fed into a grinder. As 10 to 15 % of oil will remain in the press cake after milling, this procedure is quite expensive. It is only used for extracting oil from seeds with a very high oil content, such as olives and sunflowers. Cold pressed oils have a distinct flavor and intense color, whereas refined oils are lighter and usually clearer.

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Main Processed and Consumed Peanut Products in America

Overview of Consumed Peanut Products in America
Peanuts are one of America’s favorite and most versatile snack foods, capable of being eaten whole, layered in a candy bar or mashed into a peanut butter spread. In their eyes, peanuts are a nutritious, high protein food that are ready to eat with little preparation or can be eaten raw. They can be easily processed by roasting and can be ground into many food products. Most U.S. peanuts are used for food, chiefly peanut butter, while most foreign countries use peanuts mainly for oil. U.S. peanut production and consumption for food nearly doubled over the last 30 years. In 2012, peanut and peanut butter consumption account for nearly 67 percent of nut consumption, followed by almonds at 13%, other tree nuts at 12 %. Furthermore, recent years the US peanut consumption continues to rise by which the peanuts processing industries are getting a lot of encourage from shelling, roasting to the marketing. Peanuts have been marketed as a cheap source of protein compared to cheese and red meat and as a good source of essential vitamins and minerals. With decreasing prices and increasing production of peanuts, U.S. demand for peanuts has remained strong over the last decade,therefor the relative peanuts industries are expected to growth well in future years.

Peanut Planting Areas and Peanut Varieties in America

The peanut, while grown in tropical and subtropical regions throughout the world, is native to the Western Hemisphere. It probably originated in South America and spread throughout the New World as Spanish explorers discovered the peanut’s versatility. Nowadays, The United States is the leading peanut exporter with average annual exports of between 200,000 and 250,000 metric tons and the third largest producer after China and India with 10 percent of world peanut production.
Peanuts are grown commercially in 15 states: Georgia, Texas, Alabama, North Carolina, Florida, Virginia, Oklahoma, New Mexico, South Carolina, Louisiana, Arizona, Arkansas, Mississippi, California, and Tennessee. Georgia grows the major proportion of all peanuts about 40% followed by Texas approximately 24%. There are around 25,000 peanuts farmers in the major producing regions. 
The U.S. peanut fall into four types and each of these peanuts is distinctive sizes and flavor. Runners are used primarily to make peanut butter. Virginia peanuts which are grown for use as roasted-in-shell snacks, Spanish peanuts are used in sweets and candies and Valencias which are a top of the range variant of Virginia used as roasted peanuts.

Main Types of Processed Peanut Products in America
As mentioned above, peanut and its by-products play a very important role in American’s daily food varying from snacks to the necessary foods. Peanuts are also one of the most valuable cash crop grown in the United States with a farm value of over one billion U.S. Dollars. As to industries, different with others countries where the end product are usually peanut oil, cake and meal, the prime market for U.S. is in domestic edible products. Per year about 15% of U.S. production is normally crushed for oil. Peanuts, peanut butter and peanut candy are some of the most popular products in the United States. Besides, many value-added products have been cultivated and developed including bakery,confectionery and so on.

The processing peanut products are mainly divided into the following four types:
Roasted peanuts
Roasted peanuts can be processed into different flavors such as honey, smoked, sweet, hot, spicy and salty by coating with different materials before or after the processing. Peanuts are consumed as snack nuts in a variety of ways: roasted inshell, roasted kernels, or in mixed nuts. It’s also used in cooking or baking. During the roasting process, two main machines we will use. One is peanut peeling machine, the other is peanut roasting machine which we can get from the market.
Peanut oil 

Peanut oil is considered a premium, high quality cooking oil in the U.S., is able to withstand higher cooking temperature than many other oils and does not -retain the flavor of foods cooked in it. Surely, Peanut has a high smoke point,about 440°F. It can be clarified and reused many times for frying foods.
Peanut oil is extracted from shelled and usually roasted peanuts by one or a combination of the following methods: hydraulic pressing or screw oil expeller pressing. 
Peanut flourPeanut flour is widely used in confectionery products, seasoning blends, bakery mixes, frostings, fillings, cereal bars and nutritional bars. Made from raw peanuts which have been cleaned, blanched and electronically sorted to select the highest quality peanuts, the nuts are then roasted and naturally processed to obtain a lower fat peanut flour with a strong roasted peanut flavor. 
The peanut needs to be peeled and roasted before making powder. Then by peanut power grinding machine, one time process can get no-greasy final powder with high quality. Besides the thickness is adjustable as required and are suitable for grinding other nuts including sesame, almond,etc.
Peanut butter

Each year,American consumers eat more than 6 pounds or 2.7 kilograms (kernel basis) of peanut products , worth more than $2 billion at the retail level and accounts for approximately half of the U.S. edible use of peanuts. Peanut butter is high in plant protein, contains no cholesterol, and has many important vitamins and minerals, including niacin, vitamin E and other antioxidants, and natural folic acid which is used in a variety of industrial food recipes and is available from process.
The peanut butter making process is not difficult to operate, and you can get it even at home.Usually before grinding into a creamy consistency, peanuts are roasted, blanched and sorted.The peanut butter maker is designed to make peanut butter, sesame paste, etc with various tastes. Besides, the grinding machine can be used to grind peanut milk, protein milk, soy milk, fruit sauce, moon cake stuffing, fruit jam, etc. High yield, high efficiency and small size make the peanut butter machine extremely popular both for home and commercial use.

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