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Latest updates, insights and developments across the palm oil industry.


Precision Farming Is the Future
We are familiar with rice, oil palm, rubber and durian. Rubber is grown for rubber latex, which finds wide use in thousands of products...
Oct 23, 2020
Oil Palm Industry – Not Understood and Utilised to Potential
Consequence to COVID-19, Sri Lanka is now compelled to ban imports, restrict imports or increase import taxes to manage its valuable...
Sep 23, 2020


About Sustainability, Regulation and Consumer Demand
Even as Malaysia and Indonesia work towards combating misperceptions behind anti-palm oil products from grocery store shelves, anti-palm...
Sep 15, 2020


There's No Palm Oil Alternative
I read a few news reports in a couple of international media recently about a start-up based in New York that is ready to go big in...
Sep 14, 2020


Affirming A Cause; Pandemic or Not
Multiple phases of the Movement Control Order (MCO) have passed and Malaysia is finally and slowly easing back into life. Many sectors...
Sep 1, 2020


Rise in RSPO Trademarks Bolstered by Consumers Opting for “Brands of Purpose”
Since the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) Trademark was launched in 2011, it has grown exponentially from 12 countries to 60...
Jun 18, 2020


An Interview with the Chair of Premium Group of Companies, Mr. Satish Selvanathan
1. Premium Group is an established player and pioneer in the specialty fats industry in 35 years. Could you share the background of this...
Apr 16, 2020


An Interview with Mr. Heon Chee Shyong, the CEO of Aluminium Company of Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. (ALCOM).
Heon Chee Shyong was appointed to the Board of AGB as President cum Chief Executive Officer on 9 August 2018. He graduated with a...
Feb 11, 2020
‘A Planter Extraordinaire’
IOI Group founder Tan Sri Lee Shin Cheng rose from humble beginnings to become a planter extraordinaire, says palm oil industry expert...
Oct 7, 2019
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