Coconut is one of the major agriculture commodity in Malaysia.  The largest coconut estate located in Perak state Bagan Datoh area.  The tall coconut tree has many application, coconut milk

becomes the major composition for food beverage, the coconut water is a refreshment drink, the fibre on the coconut is a good material for mattress,  and the coconut shell is a good source for active carbon or charcoal.

Many coconut estates has converted to oil palm estate, however there still have substantial area of coconut tree in the area to support the coconut related business.

General Introduction of Coconut Shell

The outer coconut fibre will be removed and left the enclose hard coconut shell.  The hard coconut shell will chop in half.  The white colour coconut fresh will be removed for retrieving coconut milk, this left the half coconut shell.

The outer area of the hard coconut shell is yellowish in colour and inner area may attach with some left over white colour fresh.

Some Applications for Coconut Shell

The coconut shell used to be a biomass energy resource but it has better value now.  The hard shell is a good nature fabricate into active carbon for water filtration.  The carbonized coconut shell will go through grinding in order to becomes activated carbon.

Another application is converting the coconut shell to charcoal.  The coconut shell charcoal is a porous substance that has been used for air filter.

Supply of Coconut Shell

DST is supplying the coconut shell to local and worldwide market.  Our coconut shell will be packed in 20kg bag which ready for shipment.

We welcome any inquiry about coconut shell.