Sarawak Oil Palms: palm oils and palm ingredients
Sarawak Oil Palms (SOP) runs estates, seven mills, a Bintulu refinery and kernel crushing plant, and makes tocotrienols and palm beta carotene.
Sarawak Oil Palms (SOP) is a Malaysian palm oil group in Sarawak with estates, mills, refining and specialist ingredients such as tocotrienols.
Malaysia · Listed on Bursa Malaysia
Sarawak Oil Palms, known as SOP or SOPB, is a Malaysian group working across the palm oil supply chain in Sarawak. It was incorporated in 1968 as a joint venture between the Sarawak State Government and the Commonwealth Development Corporation, and today it is listed on Bursa Malaysia. The business is organised into plantation, milling, downstream, marketing and trading, and property divisions, with SOP Edible Oils and SOP Nutraceuticals handling refined products and specialist ingredients.
The chain starts on the estates, where fresh fruit bunches are harvested and sent to SOP's mills for pressing into crude palm oil and kernels. In the refinery the crude oil is cleaned and split by fractionation into olein, the liquid part used for cooking oils, and stearin, the harder fraction used in fats such as shortening and margarine. Kernels are crushed into palm kernel oil and kernel expeller, a feed ingredient. Food manufacturers choose the fraction that suits their product.
Size of the business
SOP operates seven mills. In Bintulu its refinery and fractionation plant has a design capacity of 2,300 tonnes per day and its kernel crushing plant 800 tonnes per day; these are separate processing stages, each with its own capacity.
Are SOP and SOPB two separate businesses?
No. Both abbreviations refer to Sarawak Oil Palms.
Does the group offer only crude oil?
No. It also sells refined palm oil fractions, palm kernel products and specialist ingredients such as tocotrienols and palm beta carotene.
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