History of Kollam Cashews
100 Long Years Of Manufacturing Excellence With Quality At It's Best!
Kollam is globally recognized as the “Cashew Capital of the World“, with over 600 traditional cashew processing units operating in the city. Kollam’s economy revolved around cashew, with hundreds of small and large factories.
Around 800,000 tonnes of raw cashews are imported annually into Kollam and roughly 130,000 tonnes of cashew kernels are processed and exported each year
The industry is heavily labor-intensive and dominated by women, who perform delicate tasks like shelling, peeling, and grading. These artisans often rely solely on precision tools like wooden mallets and their own skills—no mechanization were adopted for decades —leading to injuries like burn marks from the caustic cashew shells.
Kollam is famous for producing and manufacturing the finest quality cashews, globally renowned for their rich taste, premium quality and century old tradition of excellence
Our Products
Traditional Manual processing Technqiues used in Kollam Cashews
SHELLING
A skill intensive step done manually using wooden mallets or hand operated cutters. Workers crack each nut carefully to avoid breakage of kernel.
Kollam’s experienced workers are known for higher whole-kernel recovery rates.
Motors & Gear Motors
Inductive/Capacitive Sensors
"Hand - crafted by tradition, perfected by Kollam".
"Processed by hands, not machines - the Kollam way"..
TRADITIONAL MANUAL PROCESSING
DRUM ROASTED TECHNIQUE
Shelling Process
Peeling Process
