Thursday, October 13, 2016

Checklist Before Dealing With Philippines Activated Carbon Suppliers

By Christine Ellis


We now live in an age and era where everything clean and green is gold. Clean air, clean surroundings and clean water is now a premium, even in urban areas. Clean water is what we need to survive, but most of the time municipal water works use more chemicals than filtration processes. However, with the development of activated carbon, better filtration techniques are now available. Many are also thinking of buying from Philippines activated carbon suppliers. So if you are also thinking of buying, then do read on.

When doing an internet search for sellers or producers from the Philippines, you will get about twenty or so entities that will show up either separately or as a group. Most of these business providers or sellers will be coconut related industries and you may question as to why this is the case.

The reason why so many coconut players are active in the activated carbon market is because coconut charcoal, as is charcoal made from nutshells on the planet, are very high in carbon content. Through thermal decomposition and physical metamorphosis are they activated, and hence the name. Once they are transformed they have very high absorptive capacities as compared to ordinary carbon.

The basically high demand for this product, not only for water filtration, but also for other functions such as industrial pollution control, odor removal and portable air filtration units at home have seen a rise in Philippine providers wanting to sell the product. This rise in seemingly ready providers must be met with a grain of salt.

When contacting suppliers in this island nation, most likely you will be coursed to coconut players and traders or those having connections with the coconut industry. This is fine and good if you are the end user of input materials or raw materials. However, very few will be actually producing the product you are looking for, a little less than 20% of those that you will come in contact with.

Save yourself the trouble of a trans Pacific flight by looking at the websites of your potential supply partners. As a general rule, a more capable supplier will have a website, which will detail their production processes, show pictures of their facilities and even showcase their products and current partners. If a supplier does not have a website then jut go on to the next one that has.

Contact them by email at the soonest possible time. Once you do contact them do ask for a brochure of what they have to offer and what facilities that they have. Their brochure must include what products they sell and if they can customize the activated carbon for your needs, whether this be for liquid phase applications, gas phase applications, or soil base applications. Inquire into the available mesh sizes they can manufacture for specific needs

And finally do make a visit to their facilities to see everything with your own eyes. By doing an ocular visit, you will determine if the supplier can handle your orders or not. Also at the visit, it will be a good time to talk to managers and owners if possible and see if they can match your business goals.




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