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CPO prices to consolidate at RM4,000 to RM4,300
Mixed forecasts for palm oil at POC2026
CPO FUTURES CLOSE LOWER ONSTRONGER RINGGIT, CONCERNS OVERWEAK DEMAND
CPO Futures Close Higher On Stronger Crude Oil Prices Amid US-Iran Conflict
New Generation Biofuels plans power plant expansion
28/07/2008 (Bloomberg), Houstan - New Generation Biofuels Holdings Inc., the Houston-based company that uses vegetable oil and animal fat to make renewable energy, may build four production plants as it ramps up sales to power generators.
Malaysia to try to stabilise falling palm oil prices: report
28/07/2008 (AFP), Kuala Lumpur — Malaysia will put in place a series of measures to stabilise plummeting global palm oil prices including selling off crude stocks, a report said Sunday.
Coco oil refiners plan to import palm olein
27/07/2008 (Inquirer.net),Philippines - Local coconut oil refiners are planning to import some 7,000 metric tons of palm olein from Indonesia and Malaysia this year, to help bring down prices of cooking oil in the domestic market.
27/07/2008 (The Economic Times), Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia will put in place a series of measures to stabilise plummeting global palm oil prices including selling off crude stocks, a report said Sunday.
Huge drop in palm oil prices
27/07/2008 (The Star Online), Miri - The Government will take urgent measures to counter the drop of international crude palm oil prices.
Loggers, palm oil producers eye remote rainforests of Papua for development
26/07/2008 (Mongabay.com) - Commodity producers are eyeing one of the world's last relatively untouched tracts of rainforest for development, reports the Wall Street Journal.
Chin To Meet Indonesian Counterpart To Discuss On Declining Palm Oil Prices
26/07/2008 (Bernama), Miri - Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Datuk Peter Chin Fah Kui will meet his Indonesian Agriculture Minister Dr Anton Apriyantono in Jakarta next week to discuss measures to be taken concerning the current downward trend of palm oil prices.
THP acquires two plantation companies for RM 200mil
26/07/2008 (The Star Online), Kuala Lumpur - TH Plantations Bhd (THP) is buying a 51% stake in Syarikat Sabaco Sdn Bhd, a plantation company for about RM147.468mil in its move to expand its oil palm cultivation business.
Partnering palm and soybean oils
26/07/2008 (The Daily Star) - Nature has been generous in endowing palm oil with a composition that is uniquely balanced between the saturated and unsaturated fatty acids. Even when programming this higher level of saturates in the oil, nature’s consideration for optimisation was already apparent – the biology of the oil palm dictates that this saturate be in the form of palmitic acid (C16:0), the same saturated fatty acid that is most abundant in our body and throughout most of nature’s creations.
