Committed To Sustainability

• The oil palm tree (Elaeis guineensis) is an ancient plant originally from tropical West Africa
• Oil palm trees grow best in band of circa ±7 degrees of the Equator where it is hot and humid with consistent rainfall of at least 1,800mm per annum
• The oil palm tree produces fruit bunches in its forth years and has an average productive life span of approximately 25 years
• At maturity, an oil palm tree may produce between 8 to 12 bunches of fruit each year weighing between 10 and 25 kilogrammes each
• Each fruit bunch contains more than a thousand fruitlets. The fruitlets consist of a hard seed (kernel), surrounded by fleshy husk (mesocarp) and enclosed in a shell (endocarp)
• The fruitlets are mechanically stripped from the harvested bunches and Crude Palm Oil is extracted from the fleshy husk (mesocarp) through a pressing process

By-products of the palm oil process are put to good use: 

• The pressed fibrous husk (mesocarp) is dried and used as fuel for boilers to power the palm oil factories
• Palm kernels are crushed to produce Palm Kernel Oil (PKO)
• Palm kernel expeller (what remains after the palm kernels are crushed) is dried and used as animal feed
• Empty fruit bunches are applied to the land as organic fertiliser
• Ash from the boilers is applied to the land as organic fertilizer

• Palm oil is the most efficient oilseed crop in the world. One hectare of oil palm is able to produce several times more oil than other leading oilseed crop
• Palm oil has a longer shelf life than other oils as it does not become easily rancid