Coconut shell charcoal briquettes, wholesale from an Indonesian factory

PT Coco Reina Global Charcoal presses coconut shell charcoal briquettes for the shisha and hookah trade at Gunung Sindur, Bogor, and ships them by the container. This page carries the shapes, the measured specification, the loading math and the commercial terms — the figures an importer needs before asking for a quote.

What we publish, and what we don't

We produce one product line and sell it in five commercial tiers, Diamond to Regular. A tier is an ash ceiling written into the contract and evidenced for each shipment by that batch's COA. It is not a measured grade, and a measured grade is what we cannot offer: our three lab reports are single-sample and ungraded, and three samples describe one product's variation rather than three products. Tier names are supplier conventions — no ISO, ASTM or SNI definition sits behind them, ours included. The difference is set out on quality, specifications and testing; the tiers and their prices are on wholesale pricing.

What we publish as the measurement is one range, each figure attached to the report it came from.

All three reports come from one laboratory, KAN-accredited to ISO/IEC 17025. Read across rather than down: ash 1.20–1.58%, fixed carbon 77.03–80.84% as received, volatile matter 16.61–18.33%, moisture 1.35–3.06%. Test methods differ by report and by parameter — the three reports, their methods and what we never tested.

Calorific value is not on that table because none of the three reports includes a calorimetric test. We have no measured figure for it, so we publish none. The 8,000-plus kcal/kg numbers common in this category sit above the range peer-reviewed work gives for coconut-shell charcoal, and a figure nobody measured is a claim a technical buyer can refute. Ask any supplier which report their calorific number comes from.

A COA describes the batch it was drawn from, on the date it was drawn. Treat any specification — ours included — as a target range until you hold the report covering the container you are buying. Method notes and the full teardown are on quality, specifications and testing.

What a coconut shell charcoal briquette is

A compressed fuel made by carbonising coconut shell, binding the resulting charcoal powder with tapioca starch, then pressing it to a fixed shape and drying it. It is sold as shisha charcoal or hookah coals. That is the trade's own description of the class; on our line the forming step is extrusion rather than pressing, and the whole of it runs as eight stages from shell to sealed carton.

Two classifications govern the trade. The product sits under HS heading 4402 as charcoal of vegetable origin. For sea freight it is UN 1361, Class 4.2, Packing Group III — a dangerous good, with no exemption route since IMDG Amendment 42-24 became mandatory on 1 January 2026. If that is new to you, start with UN 1361 and IMDG 42-24 explained.

How it compares, and what it is not

Buyers arrive at this product from four recurring questions — three about what it is not, one about where it came from — and each has its own page. The comparison hub gathers all four, separates the three axes the trade routinely collapses into one list — material, ignition and shape — and routes each question to the page that settles it. Class facts are kept apart from marketing throughout: measured values are published for our own charcoal only, and anything stated about another class is a dated trade convention with its source named.

Shapes and sizes

The catalogue runs cube (including a centre-hole cut), the hexagonal, stix and octagonal extrusions, flats, dome and lotus profiles, with custom dimensions available on request. Pieces per kilogram is the figure that decides how a retail box looks and what it costs to fill, so it is listed alongside the dimensions. Each size has a page of its own in the catalogue.

Piece counts are nominal and vary with density and moisture at the time of packing. Confirm the count for your size against the sample before it goes into a retail box specification.

Which shape and size to stock, what each one does to a container, and the four questions that come up often enough to have pages of their own are gathered on shapes and sizes.

Wholesale terms and container loading

This page is the product. If you are deciding how to buy it — in our packaging or under your own brand — that comparison lives one level up, on buying wholesale: products, grades, pricing and private label. How it is packed to get there — the three formats, the board specs and what each does to container yield — is at standard export packaging.

Minimum order is 1 × FCL (20 ft or 40 ft). Every shape packs into the same 10 kg net master carton, which is what makes the loading table below comparable across shapes.

What that container costs is priced by ash band, in USD per tonne, basis FOB Tanjung Priok and dated with a monthly review — the five bands and what each costs per tonne. For the whole box costed line by line, with every input marked as either a confirmed figure or an assumption you must replace, see what a 20 ft container actually comes to.

The two container sizes fill differently, and the difference decides your cost per tonne. A 20 ft cubes out before it weighs out — it runs out of space first, so payload changes with the shape's packing density. A 40 ft weighs out before it cubes out, hitting the weight cap regardless of shape, which is why one figure covers every shape in that column.

Carton counts marked measured come from actual stuffing records. Those marked derived are payload divided by the 10 kg carton weight — sound arithmetic, because the binding constraint per equipment is known, but not a separate stuffing measurement. Dome payload is left blank deliberately: it has not been measured, and we would rather show an empty cell than a number nobody stood behind. Full working is on tons per container by shape .

Loading, lead time and terms

• Palletisation. A 20 ft is always floor-loaded without pallets. A 40 ft can take 20 ISPM-15 marked pallets at 100 × 120 cm, though floor loading is preferred there too. ISPM-15 is a heat-treatment mark on the timber itself, not a certification held by us.
• Production lead time. 15 working days (20 ft) · 20 working days (40 ft), excluding packaging, QC and vessel booking.
• Port of loading. Jakarta (Tanjung Priok) primary; Semarang also used.
• Incoterms. EXW Factory, FOB Tanjung Priok and CFR. Under EXW you are the dangerous-goods declarant for the sea leg — that decides who signs the declaration and who carries the liability if it is wrong. Read what EXW, FOB and CIF mean for charcoal before choosing an incoterm on this product. What the incoterm hands you at the far end — the entry, the duty and any conformity step — is set by the destination: what importing charcoal takes, market by market.
• Weathering hold. Finished charcoal rests 14 days before packing, which meets the Special Provision 978 minimum. Why that matters: SP 978 explained.
• Packaging design for your own brand is offered at no charge alongside a container order, and the print surcharge is already inside the quoted price. The whole OEM programme — formats, the two-tonne per-SKU minimum, artwork and the print clock — is on private label and OEM.

How it ships

Charcoal is declared as UN 1361, Class 4.2, Packing Group III. That decides the document pack, which carriers will take the booking, and who signs for the declaration. It is the part of a charcoal order that most often goes wrong, and it is where most of this site's writing lives — see shipping coconut charcoal as dangerous goods, the DG document stack, and which lines accept it.

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