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24-10-2005
Palm oil firm profits from pollution
23/10/05 (Bangkok Post) - Asian Palm Oil Co will be used as a role modelfor industries that want to turn pollution into profit, after successfullytackling its problems in Krabi, according to the Industrial WorksDepartment (IWD).
24-10-2005
Palm Oil Industry's Bio-fuel Hopes Overstated
20/10/05 KUALA LUMPUR (Dow Jones) - Recent optimism of surging demandfor palm oil as a fuel substitute in Europe may be overdone as there arestill major obstacles to the use of the commodity in this emerging sector,a European bio-fuels industry official said.
24-10-2005
PPB to buy 2 Indonesian palm oil firms
21/10/05 (The Edge Daily ) - Plantation firm PPB Oil Palms Bhd will buymajority stakes in two Indonesian palm oil plantation companies for morethan US$122 million (RM460 million) as it expands in Southeast Asia, thefirm said on Oct 21.
19-10-2005
India May Buy More Soyoil After Base Price Change
18/10/05 NEW DELHI (Dow Jones)--The Indian government's decision over theweekend to raise the base import price for edible oils may lead to a shiftin demand in favor of crude soybean oil, traders said Tuesday.
19-10-2005
Argentina angling to join biofuels race
18/10/05 CHACABUCO, Argentina (Reuters) - Armed with 12 tonnes ofsoybeans, a young Argentine engineer named Edmundo Defferrari can produceenough fuel in one day to fill the tanks of five soy trucks.
19-10-2005
Bio-diesel card being overplayed a little
18/10/05 (Business Line) - FIRM crude prices and no prospects of a majordownward correction anytime soon have forced all major economies toexamine cheaper alternatives, including bio-ethanol and bio-diesel. Demandfor bio-diesel translates into a diversion of a part of global vegetableoil pool for energy purposes.
19-10-2005
Doubts grow over Borneo plantation plan
18/10/05 (financial time com) - When Jusuf Kalla, Indonesia'sbusinessman vice-president, travelled to China in August he signed an $8bnfinancing deal with the China Development Bank that cleared the way forone of the world's biggest agricultural projects.
19-10-2005
Golden Hope Hopes For Sizeable Revenue From Biodie
17/10/05 SERDANG, (Bernama) -- Golden Hope Plantation Bhd hopes to get asizeable revenue from biodiesel in three to four years' time, withproduction starting in the next 12 to 15 months, said its group chiefexecutive Datuk Sabri Ahmad.
19-10-2005
Oil palm planters told to look at India for expans
17/10 2005 (The Star) - INDIA holds the potential to be a new prioritydestination for Malaysian plantation companies to expand their oil palmland bank after Indonesia as well as to establish ventures in the palmoil-related downstream activities and set up of biofuel plants.
19-10-2005
Villagers show DOE officers polluted river
16/102005 (The Star) - SANDAKAN: After years of waiting in vain forauthorities to act, villagers at Kampung Segaliud took matters into theirown hands to show how pollution by two palm oil mills was destroying theirriver.
17-10-2005
Edible oil imports up 19%; slowdown in Sept
16/10/05 Mumbai , (Business Lines) - IMPORTS of edible oil, mainly palmoil and soyabean oil, have provisionally been reported at 46,30,483 tonnesduring 11 months of the current oil season (November 2004/September 2005).The imports are up from 38,83,298 tonnes during the corresponding year-agoperiod, a rise of 19 per cent, according to the latest import datacompiled by the Solvent Extractors' Association of India (SEAI).
17-10-2005
Felcra To Build RM100 Mln Oil Palm Refinery Factor
Perak Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Tajol Rosli Ghazali with therepresentatives of Perak Felcra settlers at the ceremony to presentdividends amounting to RM44.9 million to Felcra settlers in Perak,Saturday. Pix:Dusa Abas