Palm Supply, Demand & Industry Outlook
Palm Supply, Demand & Industry Outlook
Palm Supply, Demand & Industry Outlook
products are then used in the manufacture of food products such as cooking oil (olein), shortening/dough f stearin). Besides the usage of CPO from the mesocarp (the pulp of the fruit) in food products, palm kernel oil is used in the oleochemical industry to produce chemical feedstock for non-edible products globally (around 77%) is used in the food industry with the remainder (c.23%) for industrial purposes. The propor with only 14% being taken for industrial purposes:
Source: USDA
phenomenal growth in demand for palm oil, with y/y increases averaging 22% in the past four years, which meant it surpassed China as the largest consumer of palm oil in 2008/09. Even so, Chinas uptrend, with average growth of 5% pa in the past four years. Other large consumers include EU-27 (11%), Indonesia (10%) and Malaysia (8%).
Source: USDA
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Palm oil is one of the 17 major edible oils and fats traded globally. It surpassed soybean oil in 2004 to become the most traded product, especially in the US (the largest soybean oil producer) and China, which is the largest oil deteriorates below a certain temperature. Rapeseed product, primarily in Europe (which produces 35% of global rapeseed supply). As there is scope for product most vegetable oils, demand is other vegetable oils (soybean oil, rapeseed oil and sunower oil Nevertheless, factors. Palm oil is the most ecient oil- bearing crop Being a perennial crop that is less to severe damage by weather changes, CPO has historically traded at a discount to other vegetable oils such as soybean and sunower oil
Source: Bloomberg
Supply Key Producers or south of the equator. Suitable countries include Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Nigeria, Colombia, Papua New Guinea, Ecuador, Ivory Coast, Honduras, Brazil and Cameroon. Humid tropical climates with a temperature range of 24-32 degrees Celsius throughout the year, ample sunshine and evenly distributed annual rainfall of almost 2 Indonesia (48%) and Malaysia (39%) account for almost 90% of global supply. Other key producers are Thailand, Nigeria and Colombia.
October 2012
Source: USDA
Types of Palm Oil & Yield There are three main types of oil palm: 1) Dura, which has the thickest shell; 2) Pisifera, which has the has a thinner shell than Dura, which means it has a thicker oil-bearing mesocarp and, therefore, higher oil yield. While the thinner shelled Pisifera has a much thicker oil-bearing mesocarp, the Tenera produces more fruit bunches. response to stage of 12-18 months, it harvest. In eect, a material increase on. Once established, oil palm will typically have a in the 8th to 15th year ranges. fruit bunches (FFB) are produced per palm per year. With an average weight of 15kg per can amount to 1920 tons/ha. produce around four tons of palm oil. to diseases in each region. Oil palms in Malaysia typically produce higher yields, ranging from 4.3 to 4.5 tons/ha pa (Indonesia is slightly lower at 3.8-4.0 tons). The yield in Thailand, the other key producer in Southeast Asia, is just 2.4-2.5 tons/ha pa. Elsewhere, Nigeria and Colombia are the next largest producers, but ns and 3.0-
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