From Palm Oil To Purpose: Mars VP Weighs In On Why Private Companies Must Focus On Sustainability

Purpose and sustainability are front in center at most public companies as investors as well as consumers’ expectations have evolved. Why should private companies care?  Is there a model companies should consider as they integrate adding good to society into their business objectives? “Increasingly companies — both private and public — are being asked to…

From fertiliser to fuel, Norwegians join forces to produce green ammonia

Norway’s Statkraft STATKF.UL and Aker Horizons, a unit of investment firm Aker AKER.OL, have joined chemicals firm Yara YAR.OL in electrifying and decarbonising a plant in Norway to produce zero carbon ammonia, the companies said on Thursday. Yara, one of the world’s largest producers of nitrogen fertilisers, aims to eliminate CO2 emissions from the 500,000-tonnes-a-year…

Disruptive technology to drive innovation in palm oil industry — Minister

The application of disruptive technologies will be the driver of innovations in all sectors including the palm oil industry, Minister of Plantation Industries and Commodities Datuk Dr Mohd Khairuddin Aman Razali said. He said technologies have been innovated and improved to boost the effectiveness and competitiveness of the upstream, midstream, and downstream sectors of the…

The ASEAN–EU Strategic Partnership’s coherence challenge

The new ASEAN–EU Strategic Partnership announced on 1 December 2020 marks a turning point in the relationship between the two regional organisations — not only has the donor–recipient dynamic of previous decades disappeared, but now the European Union may need ASEAN more than ASEAN needs the European Union. The strategic partnership contains cooperative arrangements on a wide…

Indonesian Palm Oil Goods Exports Up 13.6% to US$22.97bn in 2020

Indonesia’s exports of palm products managed to increase amid the pandemic Covid-19. Last year, the export value reached US$22.97 billion or around Rp321.5 trillion. “Exports grew 13.6 percent from 2019,” Eddy Abdurrachman, head of the Oil Palm Plantation Fund Management Agency (BPDKS), said in a national seminar on strengthening palm oil management policies, Wednesday, February…