SOGUIPAH - Guinea

Customer : SOGUIPAH (Société Guinéenne de palmiers à huile).
Conakry - République Démocratique de Guinée.

General contractor : De Smet Engineers and Contractors.

Scope of works :
Complete factory design, supply, civil engineering works management,
installation and commissioning.

Industrial operation : January 1998

De Smet Companies involved :
Extraction De Smet,
De Smet Malaysia.

Consulting engineer :
SOCFINCO - Belgium

Plant capacity :
- 10 tons of fresh fruit bunches per hour.
Processing units :
- Fresh fruit bunches storage
- Sterilisation of fresh fruit bunches
- Fruit digesters
- Presses
- Oil decanter
- Nuts depericarper
- Nuts drying silos
- Nuts cleaning and sorting
- Kernel silo
- Oil storage
- Effluent acidification tank
 Utilities :
- Boiler house
- Raw water treatment including drinking
- water production for the mill and the village
- Fire fighting system
- Lighting system
- Electrical distribution for the mill and the village
- Effluent treatment (aerobic)
 Auxiliaries :
- Steel structures
- Maintenance workshop
- Laboratory
- Spare parts