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- Location and Accessibility
The plantation area is located in Tumbang Diring village or now becoming Datahkapas village, Central Kapuas Sub district, Kapuas district, the province of Central Kalimantan. It covers about 16,500 hectares with 13,601 hectares or 82.43 % potential land for the development of oil palm plantation with the following breakdown: moderately suitable (S2): 10,672 hectares or [...]
- Palm Oil and Oleochemical Products
Oleochemical industries integrated within the agrobased chemical industry have an important role in supplying the basic community needs such as cosmetics, pharmaceutical products and other consumer products. Up till now, several CPO based chemicals products are still completely dependent on imports, such as isopropyl palmitate products, isopropyl miristate, palmitate acid, and oleat acid. The development [...]
- What is Palm Oil?
Palm oil is a consumable result of Arecaceae Elaeis oil palm fruit and kernels. Their specific red fruits are natural due to the high quantity of beta-carotene they contain. Palm oil was originally cultivated in West Africa, where palm trees were interplanted in traditional agricultural production systems as well as other annual crops. Nowadays, palm [...]
- Palm Oil History
Palm oil has been recognized and applied as cooking oils in West African countries. European merchants came to West Africa sometimes purchased palm oil to be used in Europe. However, palm oil remained a rare commodity outside of West Africa due to its bulky and price. In the times of Britain’s Industrial Revolution, palm oil [...]
- Palm Oil Processing
Palm oil products are made using miling and refining process; first using fractionation, with crystalization and separation process to obtain a solid stearin and liquid olein. Before going through oil filtering and bleaching, impurities are removed by melting and degumming. Next, physical refining process is done to remove odours and colouration to produce refined bleached [...]