Austrian entrepreneurs are extracting cyanide from stone fruit seeds – a side stream of the fruit processing industry – before upcycling them into B2B food ingredients. Food waste is a global concern.

Sulaeman, a 63-year-old worker pushes a cart as he collects fresh fruit bunches during harvest at a plantation in Kampar regency, as Indonesia announced a ban on palm oil exports effective this week, ...

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TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Indonesian biomass products such as palm kernel shells and wood pellets were in high demand at the business forum organized by the Ministry of Trade in Osaka, Japan, on Wednesday, ...

What happens to the waste that accumulates when oil palm fruits are processed? Palm kernel shells (PKS) are the fraction left after crude palm oil has been extracted from fruit bunches and palm kernel ...

Bord na Móna is to stop importing palm kernel shells from plantations in some of the world's most biodiverse countries following concerns that it is helping to fuel the destruction of forests. Since ...

Palm kernel oil, popularly known as PK oil has many uses, ranging from direct use in treatment of certain body aliments, use in medicine, for soap making and general cosmetics. Besides it is widely ...