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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
MPOC Expects CPO Price To Hold Steady At RM4000 In October
Vitamin E From Palm Oil May Prevent Stroke, Says O
30/9/2005 (Business Times) - Malaysia's palm oil has received a boost fromthe medical world with a recent discovery that palm tocotrienol (vitaminE), which is a palm oil extract, may help prevent stroke.
Agriculture Sector To Grow By 5.0 Pct In 2006
30/09/05 KUALA LUMPUR, (Bernama) -- The agriculture sector is expected togrow at a higher rate of five percent in 2006, contributed by higherproduction of palm oil and rubber and increase in food production, saysthe Treasury in its 2005/2006 Economic Report released Friday.
BIOX’s big plans
2/10/05 (The Edge Daily) - Europe’s largest and fastest-growing supplierof biofuel BIOX Group BV is coming to Malaysia with big plans, includingsourcing up to 300,000 tonnes of biomass consisting of palm oil and palmoil by-products annually by the beginning of 2007.
Felcra Identifying Technology To Raise Palm Oil Pe
1/10/05 KUALA LUMPUR,(Bernama) -- Felcra Bhd is in the process ofidentifying biodiesel technology, which can be used to determine palm oilpercentage in diesel, says its chairman Datuk Hamzah Zainuddin.
Iban Community Launches Smallholder Oil Palm Schem
29/09/05 KUCHING, (Bernama) -- The Iban community in Aping, Pantu, SriAman Division, about 120 kilometres from Kuching, has launched asmallholder oil palm scheme as a community-based effort on their nativecustomary rights (NCR) land.
Malaysia's Palm-based Biodiesel Vs Soybean Diesel
30/09/05 NEW YORK, (Bernama) -- Even as Malaysia debates over theincreased use of palm-oil based biodiesel as an alternative toconventional fossil fuel in the future -- biodiesel was a key themediscussed at the recent International Palm Oil Congress 2005 in PetalingJaya -- the use of agriculture-derived renewable sources of energy isproceeding apace in other parts of the world.
Malaysian On Track To Control 60% Of Europe's Edib
10/3/2005 (Business Line) - Recently in Mumbai - By the end of next year,Malaysian companies could control up to 60 per cent of the edible oilrefining capacities in Europe.
Malaysian Palm Oil Pharmaceuticals Maker To Expand
29/9/2005 (Business Times)- Catotech Bhd, a 51 per cent-owned unit ofHovid Bhd, plans to spend at least RM100 million to boost the capacity ofits biodiesel plant to meet rising global demand for "green" oil and palmoil-based health products.
Malaysian, Filipino companies to invest P16.7B in
28/09/2005 ZAMBOANGA CITY (Minda News)-- Malaysian and Filipinoinvestors are pouring in as much as P16.7 billion in oil palm plantationin three provinces in Western Mindanao.The investors have identified vast areas ideal for oil palm plantation inthe provinces of Zamboanga Sibugay, Zamboanga del Sur and Zamboanga delNorte.
