Raw Cashew Nuts in Shell (RCN)

Product overview

In-shell cashew for processors, contracted on outturn and nut count. Sourced across the West and East African crop seasons. Origin is Côte d'Ivoire · Nigeria · Ghana · Tanzania, and the line runs on our own shelling, peeling, calibration and sorting plant or at a sister factory under common management — so you are buying at manufacturer pricing with the producing factory named on the certificate of origin.

The contract specification is outturn at 46–52 lbs per 80 kg bag, nut count at 180–200 nuts/kg, moisture at 8.0 % max and defective nuts at 12 % max. Those are the figures we set the plant to and the figures the independent surveyor measures against, not indicative ranges. Where your process needs a tighter tolerance, say so in the enquiry: a tighter number is usually a machine setting and an honest yield conversation rather than a refusal.

How this lot is processed and graded

Raw material is steam-conditioned and shelled at the plant, then peeled, dried to the contract moisture and passed over calibration screens that separate the counts. Grading is the step buyers underestimate: a W320 that carries W240 and W450 across the sieve is a commercial problem at destination, so our lines run electronic colour sorting behind the mechanical screens and hand-picking behind that. Because we control the drying, we can hold moisture at the low end of the range, which is what protects the kernel through a long ocean leg into a humid market.

Quality control before it leaves

Each lot is checked for count per pound, moisture, defective and broken percentage, foreign matter and colour uniformity. Aflatoxin B1 and total aflatoxin are screened against the destination limit — 4 ppb total for the European Union, higher elsewhere — and the certificate is issued before the lot is offered for loading.

Independently, you nominate the surveyor and their certificate is final for quality and weight at settlement. We give the surveyor access to the production line, not only the finished stack, and every lot carries a number that maps back to a production date, a raw material intake and a laboratory record we retain for the full claim period.

Packing, private label and volumes

Standard export packing is vacuum-packed tins or flexible pouches of 10 or 25 kg net inside master cartons, nitrogen-flushed where the transit time or destination climate warrants it. Bulk formats run in multiwall paper sacks or jute. Retail packs from 100 g upward run on our own pouching line under your brand, with barcodes and destination nutrition labelling.

Buyers reach this page searching for a raw cashew nuts in shell (rcn) supplier, a raw cashew nuts in shell (rcn) exporter or a raw cashew nuts in shell (rcn) manufacturer, and the distinction matters more than the wording suggests. A supplier resells; an exporter ships someone else's goods; a manufacturer sets the specification on its own line. XINYI SMART SERVICE is the third, which is why we can quote wholesale raw cashew nuts in shell (rcn) at factory-direct pricing and hold a tolerance you name.

To buy raw cashew nuts in shell (rcn) in bulk, send the quantity, the destination port and whether you want CIF or DDP. We return a firm raw cashew nuts in shell (rcn) export price with a validity window and a production slot within 48 hours. Minimum order is 1 x 20' FCL (18 MT), packing is 80 kg jute bags, container-lined, and private-label packing under your own brand is available on this line.