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Haycarb PLC
Sri Lanka coconut shell activated carbon specialist; 56,800 MT annual capacity; 6 facilities in Sri Lanka, Thailand, Indonesia; subsidiary of Hayleys PLC
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Coconut Shell Activated Carbon
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Origin2023
Haycarb PLC is part of Hayleys Group — one of Sri Lanka's oldest diversified conglomerates, founded in 1878 by Charles Hayne, a British rubber and tea merchant operating in colonial Ceylon. Hayleys grew through the colonial period managing rubber estates and exporting tropical commodities; after Sri Lankan independence in 1948, the company diversified beyond rubber and tea into industrial manufacturing. Haycarb was established to commercialize a by-product of Sri Lanka's coconut industry: coconut shells, which were historically waste material from coconut oil and coconut meat processing, are the optimal raw material for producing coconut shell activated carbon. Coconut shell AC has a distinct pore size distribution (predominantly microporous) that makes it superior to coal-based AC for specific applications including gold recovery (in which the AC adsorbs dissolved gold from cyanide leach solutions in the carbon-in-pulp mining process), solvent recovery, and potable water purification. Sri Lanka's position as one of the world's largest coconut producers (along with Indonesia and Philippines) gave Haycarb a feedstock advantage that other AC manufacturers cannot replicate without access to tropical coconut production. A 1878 British colonial rubber merchant's company now supplies the activated carbon that separates gold from cyanide solutions in Australian and South African gold mines, treating both the world's gold supply and the world's drinking water with the same tropical nut shell material.
Haycarb PLC / Hayleys Group ↗