|
Budget 2025 adjustments in export tax seen helping palm oil refining industry be more competitive
CPO price forecast to climb for rest of the year
CPO FUTURES HIT TWO-YEAR HIGH ON BULLISH SENTIMENT, STRONG EXPORTS
CPO price strength could dissipate through end-2024, says BMI
Biofuels News : Towards a truce: environmentalists should use palm oil as a lever for conservation
04/10/2007 (Checkbiotech) - The growing popularity of palm oil has been condemned by some conservationists from the West who see rainforest being given over to palms in Malaysia and Indonesia, with an appreciable loss in biodiversity. The push to plant more trees is easy to explain: palm oil is by far the most productive oil and energy crop and brings nearly instant profits to millions of small farmers and estates alike. Palm oil is one of the few sectors that bring social and economic development to poor communities in a straightforward way.
A boom in biodiesel?
01/10/2007 (The Seattle Times) - A map of Seattle and its environs teems with pins — potential sites for the company's green-and-white biodiesel pumps. Most of the pins mark well-established gasoline stations that sell traditional petroleum-based fuels. By striking deals to sell biodiesel there, Propel executives think they can overcome the retail-distribution obstacles that so far have kept it an alternative fuel for a small circle of green devotees.
Investing for a better tomorrow
03/10/2007 (Business Times) - SARAWAK’S Ta Ann Holdings Bhd is setting aside almost RM200 million to plant more oil palm and timber trees and expand its timber-processing mills.
TDM ventures into oil palm plantations in Indonesia
02/10/2007 (The Edge Daily), KUALA LUMPUR - TDM Bhd has entered into a joint-venture (JV) and shareholders agreement with Indonesian Bapak H Rahman to develop oil palm plantations and operate oil palm businesses in Indonesia.
Indonesia\'s Aug trade surplus narrows to 2.76 bln usd vs 3.55 bln in July
01/10/2007 (AFX News Limited), JAKARTA - Indonesia's trade surplus in August narrowed to 2.76 billion US dollars from 3.55 billion dollars in July as imports picked up pace while exports slowed from the preceding month, Central Bureau of Statistics chairman Rusman Heriawan said Monday.
Indonesia pledges sustainability in palm production
01/10/2007 (Reuters), London - Protecting the environment is at the heart of Indonesia's future plans for palm oil production and companies caught destroying protected forests are being prosecuted, the country's agriculture minister said on Monday.
Green campaign dents palm oil demand
01/10/2007 (Reuters), Kuala Lumpur - A campaign by environment groups against palm oil is costing the product market share in Europe, a top Malaysian palm oil industry official said on Monday.
Malaysia\'s Sept palm exports up 12pc from Aug
01/10/2007 (Reuters) - Exports of Malaysian palm oil products during September rose 11.9 per cent to 1,415,266 tonnes from 1,264,422 tonnes shipped in August, cargo surveyor Societe Generale de Surveillance said today.
SHSU ag students testing biodiesel mixtures
01/10/2007 (The Huntsville Item) - The questions concerning our fuels of the future are many, but a group of agriculture students at Sam Houston State University are helping provide some of the answers.
