Plants and Projects

APOILFED started its operations in oil palm as the lone player with a plant capacity of 1 Ton Per Hour (TPH) in 1992 and expanded to 2 TPH during 1993 and later to 4 TPH during 1995 as all the produce in Andhra Pradesh was processed at Pedavegi plant. Since then several modifications/improvements have been undertaken and the performance of the plant was stabilized during the operations in 1996. Keeping in view of the increased arrivals of FFB in West Godavari District, a modern Oil Palm Processing Plant at OPP, Pedavegi was established in the Year 2009 at a Processing capacity of 10 TPH (Tons per hour Fresh Fruit Bunch) expandable to 16 TPH. Later due to increase of operations the plant processing capacity was expanded from 10 TPH to 16 TPH capacity in the year 2011 and in the year 2014 it was again expanded to 24 TPH. In the year 2019 the existing 24 TPH capacity plant was upgraded by replacing the existing equipment, extension of process shed for operational convenience and replacement of several essential equipment.

The Fresh Fruit Bunches received from allotted mandals (5) of Eluru and Kakinada districts are processed at Oil Palm Plant Pedavegi. The OER (Oil Extraction rate) and the weighted average price of Crude Palm Oil (CPO), Palm Nuts obtained at APOILFED processing unit at Pedavegi is taken as basis for fixing the FFB price every month by the Department of Horticulture, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh

The plant consists of various process equipment like Bunch handling, Sterilizers, Stripper, Digestor, Screw Press, Clarifiers, 3 Phase Decanter, Purifier/ Centrifuge, Vacuum Drier, Ripple mills (Nut Cracker), Hydro cyclones, Kernel Drying Silo, and kernel processing etc., apart from various material handling equipment like Screw Conveyors, Bucket Elevators, Slat Conveyors, Bulk Conveyors, Pneumatic Conveyors, etc., to handle the material in various forms.  The utilities like Boiler, captive turbo-generator and its accessories, Electrical Panels, Diesel Generator sets to serve as standby source of power in case of breakdown of Turbo Generator, storage tanks to store the crude palm oil and various pumps and motors for pumping needs.