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Budget 2025 adjustments in export tax seen helping palm oil refining industry be more competitive
CPO FUTURES HIT TWO-YEAR HIGH ON BULLISH SENTIMENT, STRONG EXPORTS
CPO price strength could dissipate through end-2024, says BMI
CPO price forecast to climb for rest of the year
EcoFirst mulls biotech to help turnaround
31/7/06 (The Edge Daily) - Loss-making EcoFirst Consolidated Bhd hopes to turn around in the next two to three years with plans to venture into biotechnology and to expand its plantation land in India.
Health experts want trans fat levels on food labels
28/706 LONDON (Reuters) - Food labels should list the amount of trans fat along with cholesterol and saturated fat so consumers can make healthier choices to reduce their risk of heart disease, British public health experts said on Friday.
Golden Hope forms joint venture in China
28/7/06 (The Star) SHANGHAI: Golden Hope Plantations Bhd has formed a joint venture in China to set up a plant to produce a palm-oleochemical product used for making detergent.
Vital to purge oil palm disease
27/7/06 (The Star) - I agree with Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Peter Chin Fah Kui that there is currently no effective measure to eliminate the cancer-like oil palm disease known as Ganoderma Basal Stem Rot (BSR), which is causing serious losses to the oil palm industry.
Palm oil yields stagnated for many years now
27/7/06 (The Star) - ARE we ready to capitalise on the expected increase in palm oil prices? The answer is a sad "no" simply because our palm oil yields had stagnated for so many years.
Higher Malaysian palm oil exports forecast
27/7/06 (NSTP) - MALAYSIA'S palm oil exports can reach RM29 billion this year, about 2 per cent higher than last year's figure, helped by high demand for crude palm oil (CPO).
Biodiesel can be traded on derivatives market
26/7/06 (NSTP) - BEIJING: Palm oil-based biodiesel futures could become the latest derivatives product on Bursa Malaysia Derivatives Bhd and companies which own and operate biodiesel plants could also seek to list their shares on the Mesdaq market.
GHope plans biodiesel plants in China, South Korea
28/7/06 (NSTP) - SHANGHAI: Golden Hope Plantations Bhd (GHope) plans to set up palm oil-based biodiesel plants, one each in China and South Korea, to ride on both the countries' initiatives to reduce dependency on expensive fossil fuels.
UTM chemical plant to boost production capacity
25/7/06 (NSTP) - UNIVERSITI Teknologi Malaysia's (UTM) RM4.5 million expansion of its chemical engineering pilot plant (CEPP) in Skudai, Johor, will see its production capacity go up by 10 times by March 2007.
