Archived News

03/06/2024 (Brownfield Ag News) - Corn for ethanol numbers were mixed in April.

04/06/2024 (Yahoo Finance) - A bigger-than-expected Spanish olive harvest may bring relief to inflation-addled shoppers later this year in the form of lower supermarket prices.

03/06/2024 (New Straits Times), Kuala Lumpur - Egypt remains Malaysia's key trading partner as the government sets to expand its palm oil exports to South Africa and the Middle East.

04/06/2024 (Biodiesel Magazine) - U.S. biofuels operable production capacity expanded slightly in March, according to data released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration on May 31. Feedstock consumption was up when compared to both the previous month and March 2023.

03/06/2024 (West Bridgford Wire) - Rushcliffe Borough Council’s new hydrogenated vegetable oil (HVO) bin lorries that reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 90 per cent have been rolled out across the Borough.

31/05/2024 (Railway Age) - The rail industry continues to advance lower carbon targets to help reduce lifecycle carbon emissions using bio-based diesel fuel solutions in locomotives.

31/05/2024 (The Edge Malaysia), Kuala Lumpur - Sime Darby Plantation Bhd (KL:SIMEPLT) sees crude palm oil prices (CPO) averaging above RM4,000 per tonne in 2024 as severe drought limits supply from Indonesia, the world largest palm producing nation.

31/05/2024 (The Star), Putrajaya - The spicy Chinese Sichuan mala hotpot, a popular dish in all parts of China, is now a key to Malaysia’s aim of getting its roughly one billion consumers to buy more Malaysian palm oil products.

30/05/2024 (The BF Online) - Local edible oil producers are facing an “existential threat” from a surge of smuggled cooking oils flooding the market, according to the General Manager of Benso Oil Plantation PLC (BOPP), Samuel Avaala Awonnea.

30/05/2024 (The Edge Malaysia), Kuala Lumpur - To achieve its net zero emissions goal by 2050, Malayan Banking Bhd (KL:MAYBANK) has identified interim decarbonisation targets for the bank’s palm oil and power portfolios.

30/05/2024 (The Malaysian Reserve) - JOHOR PORT Berhad (Johor Port), a member of MMC Group, witnessed FGV Palm Industries Sdn Bhd’s (FGVPI) maiden export of certified Palm Kernel Shells (PKS) to Japan.

30/05/2024 (The Courier) - The Perth and Kinross Council vehicles are swapping diesel for vegetable oil. Council bosses are starting trials which will see Perth bin lorries run on vegetable oil instead of diesel.