Coconut+Coir Full Value Recovery Enterprise

PRODUCTS

Dehusked Coconuts, kg
Charcoal Briquettes, kg
Baled Coco Fiber, kg
Stitched Cocomats, sqm
Coco Fiber Geotextiles, sqm
Cocopeat, kg

Dehusked Coconuts> FOOD-used to produce desiccated nuts and coco water juice
Charcoal Briquettes> FUEL-alternative cooking fuel by consumers
Baled Coco Fiber> FIBER-used mainly by bed-mattress manufacturers in China
Stitched Cocomats> FIBER-used mainly by bed-mattress manufacturers in the Philippines
Coco Fiber Geotextiles> FIBER-used for slope erosion mitigation & greening projects
Cocopeat> Used as organic soil conditioner and fertilizer

1. Re-operate the Ligao Coir Central Plant located in Bicol, around 400 kilometers south of Manila. Specific activities are to undertake minor repair of the machines to be able to produce baled fiber, stitched cocomat & cocopeat.
2. Expand the volume of the on-going dehusked nuts marketing of Cocoline Farmers Network Cooperative.
3. Outsource the on-going charcoal briquettes business of Pitad to the farmers-cooperatives in Bicol.
4. Outsource the on-going geotextile business of Pitad to the farmers-cooperatives in Bicol and Samar.

Institutional marketing will be made with the big companies using the products of the joint-venture enterprise. Pre-booking of orders with purchase orders had been made with prospective buyers of the dehusked nuts, charcoal briquettes, baled fiber, stitched cocomats, geotextiles and cocopeat. PO will be issued by customers once the production of these have commenced.

PRODUCTS CUSTOMER
Dehusked Nuts Desiccated and coco water processors in South Luzon
Charcoal Briquettes Philcotech for Metro-Manila consumers
Baled Fiber Green Resources Limited of Xiamen, China
Stitched Cocomats CoirFlex, Shelltex, Metro-Manila coir-bed manufacturers
Coco Geotextiles Pantabangan and Magat Dam. Road Contractors
Cocopeat Green Resources Limited of Xiamen, China

Dehusked nuts > other nuts suppliers in Bicol region
Charcoal Briquettes > other charcoal suppliers in Mindanao and Visayas far from Manila
Baled Fiber > No competitor in Bicol region
Stitched Cocomats > No competitor in Bicol region
Geotextiles > Soriano Fiber & Cocotech >40% of the local market
Cocopeat > no competitor in Bicol region

Deshusked nuts will be sourced from the farmers-coops who are partners of the JV;
charcoal briquettes is made from carbonized rice-hull mixed with ground cocoshell which is cheaper to produce
Sourcing of baled fiber, stitched cocomats and cocopeat have no competition in Bicol
Geotextile is used exclusively (captive market) in the bioengineering projects of Pitad

The business plan is to operate coconut coir manufacturing plant that will produce baled fiber, stitched cocomat, and cocopeat as well as marketing of whole nuts and charcoal briquettes under the 3-F (Fiber, Fuel and Food) coconut value chain development program of Pitad Inc. in partnership with the coconut farmers-cooperatives. The rationale of having 6-products is to give full value to the coconuts harvested by the farmers and put added value on the coconut husks normally classified as waste.

Maintaining the cost effectiveness and efficiency of the plant's operation considering its mini size which is manageable having low operating cost.

Strengthening its business relationship with the farmers supplying the coconuts to ensure sustainable supply of nuts.

Aggressive institutional marketing by direct negotiation with customers' decision makers to ensure captive markets.

High product quality, on-time deliveries to customers

I have strong passion to be the first entrepreneur set-up a coconut + coir processing plant in the country in partnership with the coconut farmers. Currently, Pitad Inc with me as the project-in-charge is engaged as Business Development Service Provider of the Dept. of Agrarian Reform for the Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries coconut farmers.

As social entrepreneur, I have been managing enterprises benefiting the coconut farmers

I graduated BS Agricultural Engineering, finished Master of Engineering degree in Agricultural Engineering from Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand.

I have managed the start-up of Pitad's coco coir business, developed the technology on coir processing and has consolidated the supply of dehusked nuts as raw materials of some dessicated coconut plants.

I work with many agencies as consultant on coconut processing.

The management team has the expertise and experienced on coir processing.

I will be managing the enterpise on full time basis.

I will be devoting 100% of my time weekly to supervise all operations from production and markting

Enterprise will provide business to coconut farmers cooperatives to process their coconuts into high value finished products.

An innovation is the production of charcoal briquettes, cocopeat, geotextiles and stitched cocomats that are all high value coir products used for environmental applications.