INDONESIA - Buhler has added a new cocoa application lab at its coca application facility in Indonesia to allow it offer complete cocoa processing trials to its customers in Southeast Asia. According to Buhler, the lab will be managed by two service engineers and a consumer food technologist who would offer trials ranging from cocoa…
LONDON - Consumer goods giant Unilever has laid bare its entire palm oil supply chain, including all the suppliers and mills it sources from, to boost transparency in a rare industry move. Unilever said it was the first consumers goods company to publish such details, having disclosed the location of more than 1,400 mills and…
INDONESIA - Indonesia has opted for soybean as an alternative raw material in their feeds as feed mill business count losses after the corn import ban by the government. The government policy aimed to reduce corn imports to 900,000 tons down from 3.6 million tons in the previous year, resulting to very high corn prices…
INDONESIA - Indonesia is on the verge of becoming the world’s largest wheat importer after a further order from Black sea threatening to overtake Egypt’s first position. Need to be a corn-sufficient country has sparked expansion into the Asian market despite the fact that the country has in the past sourced most of its wheat…
INDONESIA - Arla Foods has established a joint venture with one of the leading fast-moving consumer goods companies and dairy players in Indonesia, PT Indofood CBP Sukses Makmur Tbk (ICBP). According to the company, this venture is a big step towards building its business in the region considering Southeast Asia as a strategic growth region…
MALAYSIA – Palm oil tumbled below 2,000 ringgit ($633) a metric ton for the first time in more than five years as forecasts for a record U.S. harvest of soybeans used to produce alternative oil threaten to curb demand.
MALAYSIA – Palm oil tumbled below 2,000 ringgit ($633) a metric ton for the first time in more than five years as forecasts for a record U.S. harvest of soybeans used to produce alternative oil threaten to curb demand.
