Rice Hull Material Handling Equipment Supplier in the Philippines

JOHOB Hardware Trading is a Philippines based industrial equipment supplier serving commercial, industrial and institutional buyers. We source from Philippine and China factories and deliver with local warranty and after sales support, which matters on a hull line since wear parts are consumables you will need again in twelve months. For rice hull work we cover three connected scopes. First, material handling: the conveying and lifting equipment that moves hull from the mill discharge to storage or to a burner. Second, industrial processing: briquette lines, mixers, extruders and mills for operations that want to turn loose hull into a saleable or burnable fuel.

Third, the utilities the line runs on, which are electrical panels (VFD, star delta, MCC and SDE types built with Inovance drives by Chutian), piping, fittings and accessories, and steam and boiler systems where hull is used as boiler fuel. We also supply scissor lifts for the access work hull handling always creates, since elevator heads, cyclone bodies and duct runs sit above safe ladder height. Pricing is quote based, since hull line scope changes with throughput, lift height and building constraints. We respond to RFQs within 1 business day.

Most handling equipment sold in the Philippines is sized against paddy or milled rice, the single most common reason a hull line underperforms after commissioning. Rice hull is light, bulky, abrasive and free flowing in a way that punishes equipment picked from a grain catalogue. Use the following as first pass design ranges only, confirmed against a sample from your own mill, since moisture content and broken hull carryover move every one of them.

Loose bulk density of dry rice hull typically falls in the region of 100 to 130 kg per cubic metre, roughly a fifth of paddy, so a conveyor rated for tons per hour of paddy is volumetrically undersized for the same tonnage of hull, often by a factor of four or five. Angle of repose commonly sits around 35 to 45 degrees, so chute angles that work for grain will bridge or stall with hull. Hull is also high in silica, abrasive against belts, screw flights, elevator buckets and duct bends, and dusty, so the line needs to be treated as a dust bearing enclosure. Every quotation we issue is sized on volumetric throughput first.

Here is the arithmetic we run on every rice hull enquiry, shown as a worked example rather than a completed project. Suppose a mill discharges 3 tons of hull per hour and you want it lifted 10 metres into an outdoor storage bin. Start with volume, not weight. At an assumed loose bulk density of 110 kg per cubic metre, 3,000 kg per hour becomes about 27.3 cubic metres per hour of material to move.

Now apply a fill factor: bucket elevators and screw conveyors handling light dusty product are normally sized at 40 to 50 percent fill, so the equipment must handle roughly 55 to 68 cubic metres per hour swept to deliver 27.3 cubic metres per hour reliably. Add a surge margin of about 20 percent above peak, taking the design duty to roughly 33 cubic metres per hour, sized on equipment rated near 70 cubic metres per hour swept. If a supplier quotes tonnage alone without asking for bulk density, moisture and lift height, the number is a guess.

Hull lines run intermittently and surge hard, a control problem as much as a mechanical one. We supply electrical panels including VFD panels, star delta starters, soft start and direct on line arrangements, motor control centres and duplex VFD panels, built by Chutian using Inovance drives. Variable frequency control matters on hull for three reasons. It lets you ramp a loaded elevator up from standstill instead of shock loading the belt and buckets, the failure mode that snaps bucket bolts on restart after an unplanned stop.

It lets you trim conveyor speed to actual mill discharge rate instead of running full tilt and recirculating, reducing dust and wear, and gives a clean interlock chain so the downstream conveyor proves running before the upstream one starts, preventing the choke and clean out cycle. Panels can be a standalone scope if mechanical equipment is already installed. Specify supply voltage, phase, fault level and enclosure rating with your RFQ.

Loose rice hull is a disposal cost. Densified or burned hull is a fuel saving or a product, usually where the return on a handling line comes from, so decide the destination before buying the conveyor. We supply industrial processing equipment for densification, including briquette lines, mixers, extruders and mills. Briquetting raises energy density dramatically compared with loose hull, making it economic to truck off site rather than dump beside the mill, and converts a nuisance into a saleable fuel.

On the combustion route we supply steam and boiler systems, covering steam boilers, hot water systems and condensate equipment, with ASME construction on pressure vessels where applicable. If hull is going to a boiler, the handling line must be sized on the boiler's continuous fuel demand and surge capacity, not the mill's peak discharge, or you get a starved burner or overflowing day bin. Tell us which destination you are designing for, since 3 tons per hour of hull produces a very different equipment list ending in a briquette press versus a furnace throat.

Rice hull handling equipment in the Philippines sits at the intersection of agricultural machinery practice and general industrial equipment supply, so buyers usually need two kinds of paperwork. On the agricultural machinery side, the Agricultural Machinery Testing and Evaluation Center at UP Los Banos administers the Philippine Agricultural Engineering Standards test protocols covering farm and postharvest machinery. If your procurement rules require a locally tested unit, tell us at RFQ stage so we scope accordingly.

On the equipment we supply, certifications depend on the item and include ISO 9001 quality management, TUV SUD testing, CE marking on electrical and material handling equipment, ASME construction on pressure vessels where applicable, IPAF for scissor lifts, and WRAS certified panels on water storage tank scopes supplied through TankSmith. We supply the certificates that apply to the specific equipment quoted, and say plainly when one does not apply.

Commercial terms are usually what decides a hull line. Pricing is quote based, since hull scope moves with throughput, lift height, building layout and destination. Standard lead times are 21 to 35 days for ex stock items and 45 to 90 days for made to order equipment, covering most fabricated conveying, briquetting and boiler scopes. We respond to RFQs within 1 business day.

On tax, 12 percent VAT applies to VAT registered buyers, while PEZA and SBMA locators and exporters are handled at zero VAT, so tell us your registration status up front. Coverage is nationwide: NCR, Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao, including PEZA zones, SBMA and Clark. To get a usable quotation, send us an RFQ with the hull throughput in tons per hour, the moisture condition if you know it, the lift height and horizontal run, the destination (storage bin, briquette line or boiler), the available supply voltage and phase, and whether you need supply only or supply and installation. With those six items we can size and price the line.

• Material Handling Equipment Supplier Philippines
• Steam and Boiler Systems
• VFD and Motor Control Panels
• Piping, Fittings and Accessories

Reviewed: August 2026