Malaysia’s Felda Global to Triple Biodiesel Output by 2016

Felda Global’s output of palm methyl ester (PME) will be increased from the current 100,000 metric tons annually to 350,000 tons by 2016, Chief Executive Officer Mohd Emir Mavani Abdullah said on Tuesday.

While 70 percent of that will be exported, a part of the domestic portion will be blended to power Felda’s fleet of 450 tankers – first with B30, a formula that uses four times the amount of palm oil content compared to B7 in the subsidized biodiesel sector, before moving into 100 percent palm oil.

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