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  • What is palm oil processing?
  • Palm oil processing in a small scale mills involves a point where harvested bunches of palm fruits are received at the mill. The bunches are stripped at the mill with machetes, the fruits are picked by hand and goes through production process. The palm oil processing project is of two (2) seasons ie. Bumper and light or lean seasons.
  • How is palm oil treated?
  • Approx. 95% of palm oil is treated by fractionation – separating the feedstock into its liquid and solid components by crystallization. These crystals are then separated from the liquid fraction using membrane filtration. Alfa Laval provides a range of different equipment often used in crude palm oil (CPO) mills for removing the solids from oils.
  • What is palm oil used for?
  • Palm oil. Some 80% of palm oil is used for human consumption: margarine, basic vegetable fat, food oil, cooking oil and specialist fats. It is also used to make derivatives for industrial use: fatty acids, soaps and cosmetics, industrial soaps, inks, resins, methyl esters, and so on. read more... read more... Brochure read more...
  • Is palm oil a good crop?
  • Palm oil is a very productive crop. It offers a far greater yield at a lower cost of production than other vegetable oils. Global production of and demand for palm oil is increasing rapidly. Plantations are spreading read more... Palm oil.