Why Work With Us?
We optimize the five aspects of our coconut products that separate us from the masses.
Cleanliness
Poor-Quality Coir
often contains materials such as sticks, stones, sand, fine dust, high fiber, and other items that can damage plants or other products.
Our Coconut Coir
is thoroughly shook and sieved to clear out most particulates, and tested for fiber and other chemicals that may damage other items.
Aging
When coconut coir is produced, it naturally contains a high salt content. Such high salt levels will inhibit the growth of and potentially kill plants grown with the coir.
We age our coconut coir for years under sun and rain, to naturally drain out the salt without adding extra chemicals.
Our aging process is carefully timed, too short and excess salt remains, but too long and the product becomes inconsistent.
Salt Content
Coconuts from trees close to the coast are rich in salts, which can harm plant growth. For Peat's Sake uses inland coconuts for this reason, and all our coir mills use either pure rainwater or distilled water (treated with reverse osmosis) to wash the coir.
We run our coir through high-pressure pumps and multiple purification systems, from carbon filters to sand filters to fast-blasted water rinses to ensure a superior product without unnecessary chemicals.
The electrical conductivity (eC), reported in milli Siemens/cm is the universal measure of salt content. In the USA, it is also expressed as parts per million (ppm). Generally speaking, a coir media with eC < 1.0 mS/cm (per 1:1.5 V/V Dutch method) is considered low on salts.
Yield
Yield refers to the re-expansion of compressed coir when water is added. Aging, cleanliness, salt content, particle size, fiber content, compression ratio, moisture, fine dust - all have varying effects on the yield.
We maximize our yield through careful management of such factors, allowing us to sell more product with the same space -minimizing transport costs and decreasing the price for our customers.
Workmanship
We pride ourselves over our high-quality product. So, we make sure we maintain our standard via balanced loading, wrapping, strapping, marking, proper phyto-sanitary and fumigation norms, among others. This workmanship - the attention to the finer details - is something we excel at.
