Archived News

08/10/2013 (Daily Express) - The global pursuit of renewable energy feedstock has arrived in Sabah.

08/10/2013 (Marketwired) - NextFuels, a pioneer in transforming agricultural residue into biofuels, is actively narrowing the search for a site for its initial pilot plant to Southeast Asia. The pilot plant will demonstrate how NextFuels can economically produce transportation and industrial fuels from wet, unprocessed agricultural waste from palm oil plantations.

08/10/2013 (The Star) - Moody’s Investors Service says IOI Corp Bhd’s announced acquisition of 39.55% of Unico-Desa Plantation Bhd through its unit, IOI Plantation Sdn Bhd, and the mandatory takeover offer it will make for the remaining shares, is a credit negative.

08/10/2013 (The Star) - Unimech Group Bhd (UGB) will use the targeted proceeds of RM13.7mil to RM23mil from the listing of its subsidiary, PT Arita Prima Indonesia TBK (API), to expand its valve business for the palm oil industry in Indonesia over the next two years.

07/10/2013 (Borneo Post) - Crude Palm Oil Futures (FCPO) ended higher on Friday as it was lifted overnight by US soy-oil market.

07/10/2013 (Jakarta Post) - The Indonesian Palm Oil Council (DMSI) has urged the government to provide effective advocacy through the relevant ministries, especially the Foreign Ministry, in facing negative palm oil campaigns.

07/10/2013 (Hindu Business Line) - Malaysian Palm oil future s technical analysis outlook for the week ended 270913

07/10/2013 (Indonesia Investments) - The government of Indonesia will be firm to convince the international community at the Asia- Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum to place crude palm oil (CPO) - including its derivative products - and rubber on the APEC Environmental Goods List (EG List). In the APEC ministerial meeting in Surabaya (East Java), last April, Indonesia failed to include these products on the list. However, the government will continue its lobby during the current APEC meeting by stressing that these products are environmentally friendly.

07/10/2013 (Visayan Daily Star) - Members of Defend Patrimony, an ecumenical group in Negros, is opposing the entry of an American based firm planning to put up a palm oil tree plantation in Brgy. Carabalan, Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental.

07/10/2013 (The Star) - From safety airbags to your little black dress and matching stockings, nylon has been a popular synthetic material since its invention in the 1930s.

07/10/2013 (Indonesia Investments) - Although the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit meetings have not finished yet, there are already some interesting results. As has been reported previously, the Indonesian government will release another economic policy package in October. One new policy involves the revision of Indonesia's negative investment list (which lists sectors that are either wholly or partially closed to private foreign and/or domestic investment). Another positive result involves the APEC Environmental Goods List (APEC EG List).

05/10/2013 (Reuters) - Malaysian palm oil futures edged up on Friday, lifted by overnight U.S. soyoil markets, but trade was muted as investors waited for an industry report on stocks and output volume in the world's second-largest producer.