Berita Arkib

27/09/05 PETALING JAYA, (Bernama) -- The Malaysian palm oil industry needsto reorganise itself into large corporations to better control the supplychain of the commodity while enhancing its competitiveness.

27/09/05 KUALA LUMPUR (Dow Jones)--Malaysia's TH Plantations Bhd.Wednesday said 38% of the company will be floated by the year-end as itsshareholders trim their stakes.

28/9/2005 (India Online) - Malaysia is considering is consideringhelping private palm oil players to set up refineries in India as tariffduty towards exports of crude palm oil to India is cheaper in comparisonto refined oils.

26/09/05 PETALING JAYA, (Bernama) -- The Malaysian palm oil industry needsto be more innovative and look at non-traditional avenues for growth,Chairman of the Malaysian Palm Oil Association (MPOA), Datuk Sabri Ahmadsaid Monday.

27/9/2005 (Agence France-Presse) KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia said Monday itwill build three plants to produce biodiesel from palm oil, as part ofefforts to reduce its dependency on petroleum as oil prices continue tosoar on the world market.

28/09/05 MUMBAI (Dow Jones)--In the quest for supremacy in the globalvegetable oils market, the Malaysian and Indonesian palm oil industriesare gradually getting closer to each other, blurring national borders.

27/09/05 (The Star) - THREE listed plantation groups have establishedseparate joint ventures with the Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) to set uppalm biodiesel plants in the country.

26/09/05 PETALING JAYA, (Bernama) -- The Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB)Monday launched the Test Method Book and the compilation of the serialPalm Oil Congress 2005 proceedings from 1987 and 2003 in compact discformat.

26/09/05 PETALING JAYA, (Bernama) -- The Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB)will invest RM60 million on three bio-diesel plants, with an annualcapacity of 60,000 tonnes each, its director general Tan Sri Dr YusofBasiron said.

PETALING JAYA, Sept 28 (Bernama) -- Plywood made from oil palm trunks caneasily be marketed in the United States, United Kingdom and Japan due toits environment-friendliness, lightness and easy to work with concept thatthe commodity carries.

28/09/05 PETALING JAYA, (Bernama) -- Biodiesel based on palm oil wouldhave higher chances of survival under certain conditions compared withbiodiesel based on canola oil or rapeseed, a consultant from Germany,Wolgang Rupilius said Wednesday.

27/09/05 (NSTP) - The first evidence that palm tocotrienol, an extractfrom palm oil, may protect against stroke injury of the brain was revealedtoday.