Portable Maize, Cassava & Multi-Crop Processing · From China
A fixed posho mill grinds maize in one spot. The buyers who think it through end up with a portable, trailer-ready set — maize, cassava, groundnut, fruit — that they move district to district, rent out and run for a fee. We are XILINK — a China-based sourcing & export company (13 years, 550+ orders to 45+ countries). We source the whole movable fleet from vetted Chinese factories, prove every factory before you pay, and land it in one container — export-compliant, at China-direct prices.
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The Model, Before The Machines
A village can't move its harvest to a distant mill. So you move the mill to the village — and get paid twice for it. That's the whole idea behind a portable fleet.
Trailer your machines into a village when its crop comes in. No grid needed — the set runs on diesel or a generator.
Rent the machines out by the day, or process on the spot and charge by the kilo. Same fleet, two income streams.
Maize now, cassava next month, groundnut after — pack up and move to the next district. One fleet, working all year.
One Fleet · Every Crop
Maize milling is where most buyers start — and where the search brought you. But the same movable fleet handles cassava, groundnut, fruit and more. Here's the full range we source, each set matched to the crops you actually run. And "we" means XILINK, a China-based sourcing & export company — 13 years, 550+ orders to 45+ countries — buying complete crop-processing lines from vetted Chinese factories and shipping them export-compliant in one container at China-direct prices.
Shell → clean → hammer-mill → sift → bag. The posho-mill line that turns maize into clean, sellable flour.
Wash → grate → press → sieve → fry. Fresh cassava into flour or garri, dewatered the safe way.
Shell → roast → screw-press → filter. Groundnut, sunflower or copra into clean cooking oil.
Pulp → juice → light-dry → pack. Food-grade 304 stainless where it touches the fruit.
Grate → cold-press VCO, or shell → grade cashew. The higher-value cash-crop nodes.
Dosing scale, bag-closer, diesel engine, generator or solar-hybrid — the parts that turn machines into a business.
Representative machines shown — we match exact models and capacities to your crops with your quote.
Sizing & Power
Three questions arrive every week from Kenya, Uganda, Zambia and Ghana: how big a mill do I need, will it run on the power I have, and what does it take to produce flour that sells as grade 1. Here are the answers before anyone quotes you.
| Output | What the set is | Power it needs | What you can sell | Who runs it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 300–800 kg/h | A single hammer mill, hand-fed, one outlet | 8–15 hp diesel, or a 5.5–7.5 kW single-phase motor | Whole meal — farmers bring their own maize and pay you per bag | Service milling |
| 1–2 t/h | Hammer mill plus sifter and a bagging point | Three-phase, or a diesel genset sized to the line | Sifted flour you can bag under your own name | Own brand, local market |
| 3–5 t/h | Cleaner and destoner, degerminator, mill, multi-deck sifter | Three-phase with a generator behind it | Grade 1 flour that passes retail spec, plus bran to sell as feed | District miller |
| 8–12 t/h | Full milling plant with elevators, silos and packing | Dedicated transformer or genset | Grade 1 and grade 2 at volume, contract packing | Industrial, fixed site |
Diesel or electric
Diesel goes to the village that has no grid and costs the most per bag. Single-phase realistically stops around 5.5–7.5 kW — that drives one hammer mill and nothing else. The moment you add a sifter, an elevator or a bagging point you want three-phase or a genset. Chinese machines ship 380V/50Hz by default; tell us your voltage and it is wound to match.
What "grade 1" really means
Grade 1 needs the maize cleaned and destoned, then degerminated — the germ taken out — then milled and separated over a multi-deck sifter. Skip the degerminator and the germ oil stays in: the flour is darker, it goes rancid on the shelf, and it will not pass as grade 1 no matter how fine you grind it. That one machine is the difference between selling flour and selling animal meal.
The step before the mill
Cobs have to become grain first. That machine is a maize sheller — also sold as a corn thresher or husker — and it is a separate purchase from the mill, sized in tonnes per hour just like the mill is. Most milling businesses end up owning both, because the farmer who brings cobs is the same customer who wants flour back. How to size a maize sheller →
One Machine Or One Line
Buying "a posho mill" buys you the middle of the process. The money is in owning more of the chain, because each step you add is another service the same customer pays you for — and each one costs far less added to the same container than shipped on its own a year later.
Step 1
Cob to grain. Charged per bag; the busiest machine of the season.
Step 2
Stones and chaff out. Skip it and you eat screens and hammers — and your flour grits.
Step 3
Where whole meal becomes grade 1, and where the bran by-product appears.
Step 4
A dosing scale and bag closer is what turns loose flour into a product with your name on it.
What To Call It
Every country names this machine after what it does. In Kenya it is a posho mill — often written as one word, poshomill. In Uganda and Ghana buyers ask for a maize grinder, a maize grinding machine or a corn mill. In Zambia and Malawi it is the chigayo. Chinese factory catalogues list the same unit as a hammer mill or maize milling machine. They all mean one thing: the machine that turns dry grain into flour people buy. Requests reach us under every one of these names — whichever word you use, the sizing table and the grade 1 requirements above apply unchanged.
Prices you see quoted in Nairobi, Kampala, Lusaka or Accra already carry someone's import margin. A China price is the factory invoice plus freight, insurance and your own duty and VAT.
Tell us your tonnes a day — we'll size the lineGetting The Mill To Your Site
A price quoted in Nairobi, Kampala, Lusaka or Accra already has an importer's margin, their freight and their duty inside it. A price from China is built from parts you can see and check yourself. Same machine, two very different numbers — here is what sits between them.
| Destination | Clears through | Typical sea leg | Inland after the port | Added at your border |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kenya | Mombasa | ~28–35 days | Road or SGR to Nairobi and upcountry | Duty + VAT, rates set locally |
| Uganda | Mombasa (transit) | ~28–35 days + inland | Northern Corridor road haul to Kampala | Duty + VAT, rates set locally |
| Tanzania | Dar es Salaam | ~28–35 days | Road to Arusha, Dodoma, Mwanza | Duty + VAT, rates set locally |
| Zambia | Dar es Salaam (transit) | ~28–35 days + inland | TAZARA or road haul to Lusaka and the Copperbelt | Duty + VAT, rates set locally |
| Ghana | Tema | ~32–42 days | Road to Kumasi, Tamale and the north | Duty + VAT, rates set locally |
| Nigeria | Lagos (Apapa / Tin Can) | ~32–42 days | Road haul inland | Duty + VAT, rates set locally |
| Mozambique & Malawi | Beira or Nacala | ~30–38 days | Road to the interior and Malawi transit | Duty + VAT, rates set locally |
| Ethiopia | Djibouti (transit) | ~25–32 days + inland | Corridor road or rail to Addis Ababa | Duty + VAT, rates set locally |
Sea transit is the typical market range for the ocean leg only — we confirm the real schedule on the actual booking. Not on the list? We ship a milling line anywhere with a workable port and customs route; tell us the destination and we quote CIF to it.
Why the local price looks lower
A dealer's shelf price is landed, cleared and marked up — it is what you pay to drive away today. A China price is the factory invoice before freight, insurance and your own duty and VAT. Compare like with like or you will conclude the wrong thing.
Where importing wins
One small hammer mill rarely justifies its own container. A cleaning, milling, sifting and bagging line — or a mill travelling with a sheller, a tractor or feed equipment — is where the freight earns its place and the gap gets wide.
Work it out yourself
Put the factory price in and see what it actually costs at your gate before you talk to anyone. Landed cost · Duty & VAT
We quote CIF to the port you name, with the duty and VAT line shown separately so nothing is hidden inside a single number.
Get a CIF price to your portBuilt For The Road, Not The Factory Floor
A rental fleet lives on trailers and rough roads. The machine that looks cheapest on a factory floor often can't take the shaking. We pick for the life yours will actually live.
Sized and framed to load onto a trailer or pickup and move between districts, not bolted to a slab.
Diesel engine, generator or solar-hybrid, so it works where there's no mains power — most of the villages you'll serve.
Simple, robust builds a local mechanic can service — plus a 12–24 month spare-and-wear kit so a worn part doesn't strand you.
You told us: compact, modular, semi-industrial — not heavy plant. We source to that, and say no to what can't move.
Where The Money Comes From
Rental: hire the machine out by the day to farmers and co-ops who can't justify buying their own.
Toll processing: process their crop on the spot and charge by the kilo — the platform scale is your till.
Trade the output: buy grain low at harvest, mill it, sell graded flour — the machine pays for the margin.
Rates depend on your district and crop — we help you sanity-check the model against local pricing before you commit.
A single-crop mill sits idle out of season. A multi-crop fleet follows the calendar — so it keeps earning when the maize is done.
Illustrative crop calendar — the real one is your region's; we build the fleet around it.
Not Twelve Sellers — One Container
A multi-crop set-up spans four or five different factories. Chasing them one by one is where the money and the months leak out. We assemble the set and ship it together — that is XILINK's trade: a China-based sourcing & export company that buys complete processing lines from vetted Chinese factories, consolidates them into one export-compliant container and ships CIF at China-direct prices.
We plan the load, keep your part numbers on file for the next spare, and quote full landed cost by sea or rail to your port.
You Pay When It Works
Serious buyers ask for a success-based partner — no upfront fee, paid only once the deal is done right. That's exactly how we work. Here's what happens before any money moves.
Suitable factories identified — the real makers of each machine, not one trader's catalogue.
Three comparable quotes per category — so you can actually compare, not take one price.
Model, specs & capacity per hour — the numbers you need to size the fleet to your volume.
Supplier approved & proforma accepted — you sign off before we proceed.
Pre-shipment inspection / factory verification — we walk the line that builds your order, not the showroom.
Paid only on execution — no upfront sourcing fee; our fee is success-based.
You pay each factory's invoice. We add nothing to it. Our margin is China's 8–11% export tax rebate on what ships — not a kickback from any factory. No factory pays us, so we've no reason to push you toward a pricier machine or a maker that pays more.
Quotes, contracts and factory negotiations run in your own language — we've closed in English, Russian and French.
From First Message To Working Line
So there's no mystery about who you're dealing with: XILINK is a China-based sourcing & export company — 13 years, 550+ orders to 45+ countries. We buy your complete line from vetted Chinese factories, put everything in one container, and ship it export-compliant (CIF) at China-direct prices. Here is the exact path every order walks, first message to container.
Crops, districts, whether you have power. A WhatsApp message or the form below is enough to start — no documents needed yet.
Every machine matched to your crops and volumes, three comparable quotes per category, and one total price with freight to your port.
A single document listing every machine — model, capacity, quantity — plus the first-year wear-parts kit. What's on the PI is what goes in the container. You approve it before anything moves.
One real shipped package, published as a spec: 22 equipment categories from 20 factories — tractor, implements and wear parts in one 40' container, on one invoice (package code XL-FMP-22, with real per-category figures inside). It came from our farm-machinery desk; your processing-line PI follows exactly the same structure.
Read the real package spec (7-page PDF) And the real delivery behind it: two containers, real CIF pricesYour deposit puts the vetted factories to work. We track every machine through the build and keep you posted.
Each unit runs under power at the factory. You get photos and video of your actual machines working — not the showroom's — before anything is packed.
Once you've seen your machines run, you pay the balance. We consolidate everything from all the factories, pack it export-grade with IPPC-fumigated wood, load and seal one container, and handle the export paperwork.
Shipped CIF, with the documents your customs broker needs to clear it. We stay on the line until it's in your hands.
Straight Answers
The compact, semi-industrial models are built to be trailered and skidded between sites — that's the point of this class of equipment, versus a fixed factory line bolted to a slab. We source specifically for machines that survive frequent transport and rental use, and pass on the ones that only hold up on a factory floor. A 12–24 month spare-and-wear kit ships with them so field repairs don't strand you.
Milling and pressing are heavy, steady loads. Off-grid that means a diesel engine belted onto the machine, or a 10–30 kW generator running several electric units. Solar-hybrid with storage is realistic for lights, charging and controls — not for turning a mill or a press. We'll tell you plainly what solar can and can't do before you spend on it.
Grain (maize, rice, sorghum), cassava and other tubers, groundnut and oilseeds, fruit for pulp and juice, and cash crops like coconut and cashew — plus weighing, bagging and power. You don't need every node. We build the set around the crops in your districts and leave room to add more later.
Three ways, often combined: rent the machine out by the day; process a farmer's crop on the spot and charge by the kilo (toll processing); or buy grain cheap at harvest, mill it and sell graded flour. Moving between crops through the year keeps the fleet earning when any one crop is out of season. We help you pressure-test the numbers against your local rates before you buy.
Yes. We identify suitable factories, put at least three comparable quotes per category in front of you, validate specs and capacity, arrange pre-shipment inspection, and are paid only once the deal is executed. You pay each factory's invoice directly with nothing added — our margin is China's export tax rebate, not a factory kickback.
Spec Your Fleet
Tell us the districts you'll run, the crops you'll process, and whether you have power. We come back with the machines, capacities, three quotes per category and a landed price — success-based, no upfront fee.
A fleet matched to your crops, not a parts list
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