What's the preparatory work for setting up a sunflower seed oil mill plant in Kenya?

Setting up a successful sunflower seed oil mill plant factory in Kenya is not an easy thing, there are many factors need to be considered. Next, I will help you analyze from business plan, start-up capital, factory land, business registration, power supply, Equipment purchase, etc.

Sunflower seed oil photo

Step 1: Develop a complete business plan

A business plan is the first step towards starting any business. It helps determine the amount of capital required and how it should be used. In a way, It is also a key document in helping secure additional capital, whether through strategic partnership or lending, if required.

Business plan of sunflower seed oil mill plant

Step 2: Prepare start-up capital

This is the initial investment required to set up a sunflower seed oil mill factory. Since sunflower seed oil production is a capital intensive process, you will need considerable funds upfront. This cost can vary depending on the location of land chosen, land-size and capacity of sunflower seed oil processing plant decided upon etc. If you don't have the necessary funds to start your sunflower seed oil processing business as the sole proprietor, then you can exercise options such as entering into a partnership or sourcing capital from the bank of industry or other lending institutions in Kenya.

The cost of build a sunflower oil mill plant

Step 3: Find land & set up factory

Finding land is an important step. You will need to choose a location suited for production purposes yet not too isolated where distance becomes a hindrance for operation. Once the land has been bought, you need to build the sunflower seed oil mill factory, which will storage your raw materials and your entire sunflower seed oil production line. If possible, the factory had better also plan the necessary living space, like: parking lot, office, laboratory room, etc.

Step 4: Learn about business registration

To make your business a legitimate entity in Kenya, you will need to register it with Corporate Affairs Commission of Kenya {CAC}. You can register your business as a limited liability company or you can simply register a business name.

Step 5: Buy suitable sunflower seed oil processing machine

The typical machine and equipment for a small scale sunflower seed oil mill plant includes: sunflower seed cleaning machines, sunflower seed cracking machine and kernel husk separator, sunflower seed roaster, sunflower seed oil pressing machine, oil plate filter, oil refinery plant, oil storage tank, and cooking filling machine.

Small scale sunflower seed oil processing machine

Henan Glory Company recommends you to buy sunflower seed oil processing machine from reliable equipment manufacturer. Because sunflower seed oil processing machine is an important part of sunflower seed oil mill plant factory.The running situation of the equipment will affect sunflower seed oil extraction efficiency and the final economic benefit.

Step 6: Consider power supply situation

Usually, your electricity supply will come from PHCN. However, because the supply of power can be unreliable, you will need to invest in a stand-by diesel generator of a capacity and above to ensure there are no disruptions in your production line due to power failures at PHCN.

Step 7: Purchase raw materials & hire workforce

The main raw material needed is the sunflower seed. There are many sunflower seed plantations in Kenya, so sunflower seeds are easy to get. You can purchase it from small farmers, small sunflower seed mill plant or professional sunflower seed wholesaler. In addition, you will need to actively carry out recruitment to hire your workforce which will range from hiring workers for the production line to hiring management level staff.

Step 8: Begin production

The freshly harvested sunflower seeds contain many impurities, so they need to be cleaned first. Then use the disc huller to hull sunflower seeds to separate the kernel shells. The separated sunflower kernels are rolled from the granular shape to the flake shape with the flaking roll. The flake shape can increase the surface area and shorten the oil path, which is beneficial to the extraction of the oil. Next feed the sunflower seed raw material in the shape of flake to the cooker. Finally, the processed sunflower seeds are sent to the sunflower seed oil press for pressing to extract sunflower oil.

Sunflower seed oil production process

Step 9: Expand marketing channels

Being a new business in the market, you will want to invest heavily into an aggressive marketing strategy to announce your entry into the market, create brand awareness and establish a strong consumer base.

The above is the preparatory works that you need to do before starting sunflower seed oil processing business. If you do well all of these things, your sunflower seed oil processing business must do very well.

After learning what preparatory works you need to do to set up a sunflower seed oil mill plant factory, you may be wondering how sunflower seed oil is extracted and what equipment is used? Please continue reading.

The whole sunflower seed oil extraction process mainly includes five steps: sunflower seed cleaning machines, sunflower seed cracking machine and kernel husk separator, roasting, pressing and oil filtering. The following content will introduce it in details combined with the needed sunflower seed oil processing machine.

1)Clean sunflower seed and remove impurities in sunflower seed

Firstly, we need to use sunflower seed cleaning machines to remove impurities in sunflower seed, such as leaves, stones, clods, etc.

Major equipment: Vibrating screen, De-stonner, Magnetic separator

2) Crush sunflower seed and separate sunflower seed and shell

Next, we need to use sunflower seed cracker and kernel husk separator to crack palm nuts to get the mixture of sunflower seed and shell, and then remove the shell to get pure sunflower seed.

Major equipment: Sunflower seed cracker and kernel husk separator

Shucking can increase the final oil yield, ensure the quality of crude oil and cake, reduce the wear of equipment, increase the reasonable production of sunflower seed oil processing machine.

3) Adjust the sunflower seed to the best squeezing state

Then, we need to adjust the sunflower seed to the best squeezing state to get crude sunflower seed oil out. In this steps, we need to destroy the oil cells of sunflower seed completely through the action of adjusting the temperature and water of sunflower seed.

Major equipment: Sunflower seed roaster machine

4) Squeeze sunflower seed oil out

Small scale sunflower seed oil expeller machine

Finally, we need to extracting sunflower seed oil out with the help of external mechanical forces of sunflower seed oil expeller machine.

Major equipment: sunflower seed oil expeller machine

5) Filter crude sunflower seed oil

Obtaining sunflower seed oil does not mean the end of the entire sunflower seed oil pressing process, usually, we also need to remove the impurities in the oil by clarification and filter to obtain relatively pure crude sunflower seed oil.

Major equipment: Plate filter machine

After completing the above steps, we can get sunflower seed oil is of high quality and ready for consumption directly. If you have special requirements, special USES, you can send the crude sunflower seed oil to oil refinery plant for further processing to get high quality RBD sunflower seed oil.

Henan Glory Company is a modern enterprise that is engaged in cooking oil processing equipment for at least ten years. We have independent research and development, manufacturing, installation, debugging, technical team to provide better service for customers. If you are planing to start your own sunflower seed oil processing business, we not only can supply you high quality sunflower seed oil processing machine at factory price, but also can offer the best suitable sunflower seed oil mill plant solution to you according to your actual situation. Welcome to consult us at any time.