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Processing

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The press cake is separated by pneumatic separation (winnowing) into fibre and nuts. The nuts are passed to a nut cracker. After cracking, the resultant kernels and shell are separated and the kernels are transferred to the palm kernel crushing plant (see photograph) where the palm kernels are further processed to extract the crude palm kernel oil that these contain.