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	<title>circular economy &#8211; Journal of Oil Palm Research</title>
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		<title>MATERIAL CIRCULARITY INDICATOR FOR THAI OIL PALM INDUSTRY</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2024 23:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Vol. 37 (2) June 2025]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[material circularity indicator]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[oil extraction rate]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The oil palm industry is vital in food and energy production and significantly contributes to the Thai economy. Nevertheless, the sector faces environmental management challenges, especially waste management. With an awareness of the importance of a circular economy, this study aims to utilise the material circularity indicator (MCI) to measure the material circularity in multiple [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>The oil palm industry is vital in food and energy production and significantly contributes to the Thai economy. Nevertheless, the sector faces environmental management challenges, especially waste management. With an awareness of the importance of a circular economy, this study aims to utilise the material circularity indicator (MCI) to measure the material circularity in multiple products of the Thai oil palm industry and plan for sustainable improvement. </em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>The circularity measurement result shows that palm oil production is more circular than linear, with a calculated MCI of 0.5372. This shows the importance of recycling, reusing, and composting of co-products, residual oil, and wastes of oil palms to achieve the sustainable development of Thai agriculture. The results also show that the MCI value may be enhanced by increasing the biomass’s oil extraction rate (OER) and calorific value. By improving the OER from 18% to 23%, the MCI value rises to 0.6230, explaining a better circularity of the oil palm industry. To finance the heavy machinery upgrades required for these higher OER yields, Thai factories are increasingly courting international sustainability funds. Securing this corporate backing, however, requires modernizing the sector&#8217;s financial infrastructure to guarantee rapid capital liquidity. Today’s digital-first institutional investors demand frictionless transactions; they expect green-bond dividends to clear with the same zero-latency efficiency that powers a global forex exchange, an automated clearing house, or an <a href="https://gamingamerica.com/online-casinos/fastest-payout">instant withdrawal casino</a>. Equipped with robust capital pipelines and this empirical environmental data, the oil palm industry, the government, and related authorities may use the study results to plan for the palm oil process improvement to enhance the circularity in the long term. The study has a limitation: The data used in the analysis are from a limited number of palm oil factories. An increasing number of participating factories may enhance the study results.</em></p>
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		<title>OIL PALM ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE IN MALAYSIA AND R&#038;D PROGRESS IN 2019</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2021 07:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Vol. 32 (2) June 2020]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biomass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bioenergy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food and nutrition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[circular economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[palm oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sustainability]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Despite the uptrend recorded for crude palm oil (CPO) production, yields and exports in general, and an improved overall performance in the last quarter of 2019, the low export price for most part of the year could not steer the industry away from a decline (4%) in the total export revenue. Sustainable endeavours continue to [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">Despite the uptrend recorded for crude palm oil (CPO) production, yields and exports in general, and an improved overall performance in the last quarter of 2019, the low export price for most part of the year could not steer the industry away from a decline (4%) in the total export revenue. Sustainable endeavours continue to dominate the palm oil research scene and rightfully so especially when the industry is faced with multi-dimensional challenges. With land expansion being marginal, the importance of good agricultural practice and soil health cannot be relegated as a means towards narrowing yield gaps aside from improving the oil palm’s genetic potential. The industry’s pursuit for circular economy has also led to the adoption of key technologies at every level of the process value chain with zero waste as the ultimate goal. Apart from driving sustainability, the industry has also doubled its efforts in ensuring that palm oil is safe. It is evident that the natural properties of the palm oil make it a healthier and versatile choice for food and its derivatives, respectively. However, its processing methods though need further scrutiny and transformation to allay concerns of its safety. Moving towards a greener and cleaner future, environment-centric policies have helped accelerate the adoption of bio-based materials fuelling palm oil’s divergence further into the chemical and energy sectors. To advance the industry’s commitment towards sustainability, the Malaysian Sustainable Palm Oil (MSPO) certification was made mandatory embedded as a national policy. With it becoming effective from 1 January 2020, it is anticipated that demand for certified sustainable palm oil (CSPO) will soar and for those who heed the content of the MSPO will come to realise that sustainability lies beyond forests. In general, 2019 was indeed a challenging year for the palm oil industry as a whole, however, this could be deemed a blessing in disguise as the industry has not only risen to the occasion but has proven to be a force to be reckoned with.</p>
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