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05/04/2013 (Biodiesel Magazine) - Neste Oil has begun using tall oil pitch as a feedstock for renewable diesel production. Neste Oil successfully tested tall oil pitch in commercial refinery operations in March and April and states it is now ready to use the material on a continuous basis. Fuel refined from tall oil pitch will be distributed to service stations in Finland this spring. The company says its original inventions and patents covering the use of tall oil as a biofuel feedstock date back to the 1990s. Neste Oil says moving forward it will use significant quantities of tall oil pitch. Tall oil refiners in Finland produce around 100,000 tons of by product tall oil pitch annually.

04/04/2013 (Economic Times) - A drop in global edible oil prices due to better supply position is expected to bring some relief to the Indian households. Companies like Adani Wilmar, Ruchi Soya and Sanwaria Oils are likely to cut prices of all categories by at least 5% to 10% this month-end.

04/04/2013 (The Star) - APAC plantation companies' credit profiles stable despite lower prices Add to Collection (Create New) | Print Download: Plain Text Fitch Ratings says in a new report that it expects the credit profile of Malaysia- and Indonesia-based oil palm plantation companies to be stable despite lower crude palm oil (CPO) prices.

03/04/2013 (Reuters) - Malaysian palm oil futures rebounded on Tuesday on bargain hunting after the edible oil fell to nearly a three-month low the previous day, while expectations that firm exports could help ease stocks further also provided support.

03/04/2013 (Bloomberg) - Surveying miles of palm trees swaying softly in the tropical breeze in southwestern Ghana, Lim Peng Hor points proudly to a terraced slope of felled trunks that cuts through the lush landscape.

03/04/2013 (FoodNavigator.com) - A Rainforest Foundation ethical food product guide based on companies’ palm oil use unjustly discourages the use of palm oil even if it is sustainably sourced, claims the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO).

03/04/2013 (Business in Cameroon) - During an extraordinary session of the control chain of palm oil (CRFHP) held in the Conference room of the Ministry of Commerce, palm oil producers declared that they are planning to raise the price of a kg of crude from CFAF 450 to 550.

03/04/2013 (Hindu Business Line) - The Government has reduced the tariff value or base import price on RBD palmolein and crude palmolein by $11 a tonne in line with the softening trend in global prices.

03/04/2013 (Hindu Business Line) - Edible oils prices ruled steady on Tuesday despite a sharp rebound in Malaysian palm oil futures and higher physical demand. Imported palmolein and soyabean oil ruled unchanged as the Government reduced the tariff value of imported palm oils by $9-15 a tonne and crude soyabean oil by $54.

03/04/2013 (Bernama) - Malaysia's exports to Egypt are expected to increase by 10 per cent this year on strong demand for palm oil in the republic, said Malaysia's Ambassador to Egypt, Datuk Dr Mohd Fakhrudin Abdul Mukti.

03/04/2013 (Jakarta Globe) - Sinar Mas Multifinance, the financing unit of Sinar Mas Group, has cut its planned bond sale by half and set the coupon on its planned bonds at 10.75 percent.

03/04/2013 (Bloomberg) - Palm-oil use is poised to rise at an above-average pace in the six months through September on a price discount to other oils and fats amid expected record production, Oil World said.