Palm oil is extracted from the fruit of the oil palm trees. It is widely used across many industries such as food manufacturing, cosmetics, and biofuels.
From fresh fruit bunches to final oils, the palm oil production involves a series of steps, including sterilization, digestion, pressing, and clarification. This leads to both edible oils for food use and processed oils for industrial applications.
Once sterilized and separated from the bunch, the fruits are pressed to extract the crude palm oil (CPO), separating the oil from solids like the palm kernel, fibers and pulp.
Clarification is the final step before refining: it removes from the CPO the impurities and non-oil components.
Then crude palm oil is refined through degumming, neutralization, bleaching, and deodorization to remove gum and impurities, improve stability, and produce a clear, odorless oil suitable for various applications.
