AEP Plantations: oil palm estates and milling
AEP Plantations, formerly Anglo-Eastern Plantations, grows oil palm and runs seven palm oil mills in Indonesia and Malaysia, some with biogas power.
AEP Plantations, formerly Anglo-Eastern Plantations, is a London-listed group growing oil palm and milling fruit in Indonesia and Malaysia.
United Kingdom · Listed on the London Stock Exchange
AEP Plantations is a UK-incorporated group that grows oil palm and runs palm oil mills in Indonesia and Malaysia. Until November 2025 it was called Anglo-Eastern Plantations, and both names refer to the same business. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange. Its estates are organised around its own mills, and part of its planted area is farmed by smallholders under the Plasma scheme, an Indonesian model in which local growers cultivate oil palm linked to a company estate.
Oil palm produces heavy clusters of fruit known as fresh fruit bunches, which must reach a mill quickly after harvest. At the mill the fruit is sterilised and pressed to give crude palm oil, while the nuts yield palm kernels. AEP's mills process fruit from its own estates and also buy fruit from external growers, giving nearby farmers an outlet for their harvest. Some mills are linked to biogas plants that capture methane from mill effluent and turn it into electricity.
Size of the business
At 31 December 2025 AEP reported 64,982 hectares of its own oil palm plantings and 4,342 hectares under the Plasma smallholder scheme, 69,324 hectares in total. Its seven mills can process 400 tonnes of fresh fruit bunches per hour, a measure of capacity rather than annual oil production.
Is Anglo-Eastern Plantations another company?
No. Anglo-Eastern Plantations is AEP Plantations' previous name, which changed in November 2025.
Does all processed fruit come from company estates?
No. Alongside its own harvest, the group buys fruit from external growers for its mills.
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