Palm oil accounts for 35% of the world’s vegetable oil market and there’s a very good reason why. Efficiency Harvested all year round, oil palm trees produce on average 10 tonnes of fruit per hectare – far more than soya, rapeseed and sunflower crops. This means oil palm requires 10 times less land than the
Semi-solid at room temperature, palm oil and palm kernel oil are among the world’s most versatile raw materials. Their functional product properties remain one of the main drivers behind the rise in demand for palm oil since the 1980s. Industries using palm oil Palm oil and palm kernel oil based ingredients are found in approximately 50%
Semi-solid at room temperature, palm oil and palm kernel oil are among the world’s most versatile raw materials. Their functional product properties remain one of the main drivers behind the rise in demand for palm oil since the 1980s. Industries using palm oil Palm oil and palm kernel oil based ingredients are found in approximately
Palm oil is an important and versatile vegetable oil which is used as a raw material for both food and non-food industries. Palm oil facts Palm oil trees can grow up to 20 metres tall with an average life of 25 years. Palm oil grows across or 10 degrees north / south of the equator。
Pledges by major brands to stop buying palm oil from companies known to destroy rainforests have failed to stop the clearance of a total area of forest the size of Los Angeles in just the last three years. That’s the finding from a new report by Greenpeace, which sought to gauge the progress made by
Palm oil is the most widely consumed, yet one of the most contentious, vegetable oils on the planet. This high-yielding and versatile food commodity pervades half the items on our supermarket shelves, but not without a cost: deforestation and degradation of critical ecosystems, climate change and abuses of labor and human rights. As demand continues
A new palm oil bill is the latest battleground in the fight over how to regulate Indonesia’s plantation sector in the wake of the 2015 fire and haze crisis, one of the worst environmental disasters in the country’s history. Legislators pushing the bill say it will help farmers and protect the nation’s palm oil industry
The palm pressing refining and fractionation production line adopts excellent technology, from palm fruit crushing oil to refining and fractionating. 1.Weighing: Transporting palm fruit into the factory is first weighed by a truck scale for easy settlement and subsequent processing cost accounting. 2.Fruit unloading: FFB after sieving and removing impurities on the ramp into the conveyor
What is palm oil? It’s made from the fruits of African oil palm trees, which are mainly grown on plantations in Indonesia and Malaysia, and it’s found in the products we buy in UK supermarkets – from chocolate to oven chips to cosmetics. It’s also used increasingly in biofuels across Europe (although not in the
The UK supermarket Iceland has announced that it will stop using palm oil in its own branded products by the end of this year, saying it hopes that could help protect the environment. It is the first major UK supermarket to ban using the oil. The frozen food shop said it was made aware of