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22-10-2013
Rotterdam Vegetable Oil Prices
22/10/2013 (Business Recorder) - Monday's Rotterdam vegetable oil prices at 1600 GMT.
22-10-2013
Incentives Called for Development of Downstream Palm Oil Industry
22/10/2013 (ANTARA News) - Agriculture Minister Suswono said the finance ministry needs to consider incentive to develop downstream palm oil industry.
22-10-2013
Palm Oil Imports by China Set to Slow as Soy Shipments Surge
22/10/2013 (Bloomberg) - Palm oil imports by China, the second-biggest buyer, are poised for the slowest expansion in three years, at a time when record production fuels a global glut, a Bloomberg News survey shows. Prices fell.
22-10-2013
Mill Construction Progressing Well, Says DekelOil
22/10/2013 (StockMarketWire.com) - DekelOil says construction of its 60 t/hr crude palm oil extraction mill by Modipalm Engineering is progressing well.
22-10-2013
Indonesia Needs to Review Legal Land Classification: WRI
22/10/2013 (Jakarta Globe) - Indonesia, the world’s leading producer and exporter of palm oil, can further expand palm oil production while avoiding forest loss and social conflicts, but will need to review its legal land classifications, the World Resources Institute said on Tuesday.
22-10-2013
Investment Giant Bans Two Palm Oil Companies For ‘Unsustainable’ Deforestation
22/10/2013 (FoodNavigator.com) - The world’s biggest sovereign wealth fund has permanently banned investment in two palm oil companies for alleged unethical practices, after dropping 23 palm oil firms from its portfolio for the same reason in March.
22-10-2013
Solvent Extractors Association of India -Oct 22
22/10/2013 (Reuters) - Solvent Extractors Association of India:
21-10-2013
Crude Palm Oil Weekly Report 20 October 2013
21/10/2013 (Borneo Post) - Malaysian palm oil futures ended higher on Friday as it reversed some losses in the morning session after the ringgit eased a little, while hopes of only a slight rise in stocks boosted prices which led to its second weekly rise in a row.
21-10-2013
Commodity Weekly Report 20 October 2013
21/10/2013 (Borneo Post) - The US government reopened its operation and saw its dollar weakened to an eight month’s low record.
21-10-2013
Buffer-less Oil Palm Plantations Raise Concern
21/10/2013 (New Straits Times) - The discovery of the planting of oil palm without any buffer zones along Sungai Kinabatangan is worrying environmental groups.
21-10-2013
Graphene NanoChem Shares Jump As Palm-Oil Refinery Reopens
21/10/2013 (Alliance News) - Shares in Graphene NanoChem PLC jumped 8.4% after it said Monday that its subsidiary, Zurex Corporation Sdn Bhd had resumed operations at its Lahad Datu palm-oil refinery in East Malaysia.
21-10-2013
Malaysia\'s Oct 1-20 Palm Oil Exports up 3 Pct-ITS
21/10/2013 (Reuters) - Exports of Malaysian palm oil products from Oct. 1-20 rose 3 percent to 1,026,488 tonnes, compared with 996,377 tonnes shipped during Sept. 1-20, cargo surveyor Intertek Testing Services said on Monday.