...CASE STUDY : PIRATES OF THE SILVERLAND (PALM OIL PIRACY) Company’s Introduction Palm Haul Sdn. Bhd. (PHSB) was a family-owned small and medium sized enterprise in the crude palm oil (CPO) transportation business located in Taiping, Perak. Established in 2002, it had about 200 employees which most of them were tanker drivers. On the average, PHSB transported 3000 tonnes of CPO from palm oil mills to the respective refineries that purchased the oil from oil palm plantation companies and cooperative mills. The company actually facing alarming problem with the quality of consignments to the refineries where the CPO either delivered short or contaminated with water or sludge. Statement of the problems Oilene refineries as one of PHSB’s major customer seriously affected by the bad consignments as they had to shut down the plant to clean out the sludge almost on a weekly basis and this was affecting their delivery timelines as well as the quality of the oil they produced. On top of that, there had been many occasions where the consignment delivered did not tally with amounts listed on the delivery orders. Oilene management had to decide whether to renew contract with PHSB which is due in June or to hire other CPO transportation company such as Tiger Oils Transporter which reported a more reliable transporter. Recommendations for Oilene 1. Contaminated CPO To overcome the problem caused by contaminated consignments that shutdown the eventually shutdown the whole production...
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...ACC 4291 INTEGRATED CASE STUDY TERM CASE THE PIRATES OF THE SILVERLAND (PALM OIL PIRACY) NAME: RAJA SITI AFIQAH BINTI RAJA AZMI MATRIC NO: 0826174 LECTURER: PROF. SHAMSUL NAHAR SECTION: 2 DATE SUBMITTED: 26th NOVEMBER 2012 SUMMARY OF THE CASE Established in 2002 in Taiping, Perak, Palm Haul Sdn Bhd (PHSB) was a small and medium sized enterprise in the Crude Palm Oil (CPO) transportation business. PHSB was managed by En. Rossly, the Chief Executive Officer which is also the son-in-law of PHSB’s founder, Datuk S. Najeed. Like the other transport companies involved in the business, PHSB also faced problems with its drivers embroiling in oil piracy. Transport companies are naturally will held the responsibility for such thefts as they usually take place under their watch and these companies are bound to compensate the refineries for such losses. The culprits involved frequently tanker drivers, depot operators and transporters. One of the major customer of PHSB, Oilene Refineries (Oilene) complaint about the quality of the CPO delivered by PHSB and its later impact on Oilene’s failure to fulfil their customer orders. This is because of the practice of siphoning CPO and adulterating the consignment with water, used oil or sludge was so uncontrolled that a number of PHSB’s customers have threatened to change their custom to other more reliable transport companies. Besides that, profits for the first quarter of 2009 had drastically decrease compared to the same...
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...1.0 INTRODUCTION Oilene Refineries’ management was unhappy with the quality of crude palm oil (CPO) delivered by Palm Haul Sdn Bhd (PHSB), their transporter. The contract will expire within the month. Oilene Refineries will have to analyse the scenario and make a decision whether to renew the contract with PHSB or find other solutions. 1.1 GENERAL INFORMATION –Crude Palm Oil (CPO) transportation * Approximately 1,500 tankers transporting CPO from the mills (where palm kernels are harvested) to the refineries (where palm kernels are processed for CPO extraction) in the peninsular and East Malaysia. * Palm oil estates operated by MNC have their own mills while smallholders send their palm kernels to co-operative mills for processing. * Once the CPO is extracted, it is then sold to refineries where it is refined for local consumption or export. These refineries are concentrated in areas where palm oil cultivation is a major activity. * The refineries commonly OUTSOURCE the transportation of CPO to transport companies. The transport companies are responsible to deliver consignments of CPO from the mills to the refineries. * The tankers have to be modified to carry CPO. * Approximately 17.73 million metric tonnes are moved yearly from the mills to the refineries by the tankers operated by transport companies. * Gross profit margins: 35%-45% * Administrative overheads are low. Net profit can be made if operated efficiently. * Achilles’Heel...
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...Palm Oil Piracy Summary of the case: Palm Haul Sdn Bhd (PHSB) established in 2002 at Taiping Perak. It was a small and medium sized enterprise in crude palm oil (CPO) transportation business. PHSB was managed by En.H.Rossly and son in law of its founder, Datu S. Najeed. PHSB was facing the same problems likes others transportation companies which is drivers embroiling in oil piracy. The transportation companies will bear the responsibilities of compensation of the refineries if there any hijacking or piracy happened. The involved culprits most probably are the tankers’ driver, deport operators and the transporters. One of the major customer of PHSB, Oilene Refineries Sdn Bhd (Oilene) was complaining to Datuk Najeed on the poor quality of CPO delivered by PHSB and it has caused them in big losses in their business as failed to fulfill the requirement of their customers. Oilene will not renew the contract if PHSB does not improve the situation in one month. Besides that, Datuk S. Najeed has reviewed the first quarter result of 2009 and noticed that the profits has dropped significantly compared to the same period of last year. If Oilene could not placated and, as a consequence, decide to leave their custom, PHSB would run into the trouble to return profits for the coming financial year. Datuk Najeed was very happy and insisted Rn.Rossly to investigate on these matters and report to him within one week with possible solutions. En.Rossly invited his university’s friend, Mukhiz Mohd...
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...21212223252629323435394041 | 9 | CONCLUSION | | 42 | INTRODUCTION Kuala Lumpur Kepong Berhad (KLK) is a Malaysian multinational company involved in plantation, manufacturing, retailing and property development. While plantation remains KLK's core business, it has expanded downstream into resource-based manufacturing, in particular oleochemicals, cocoa processing and rubber processing and employs more than 35,000 employees worldwide. As at 30 September 2011, KLK is listed on the Main Market of Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad and has a market capitalization of approximately RM22.5 billion. From a humble plantation company established more than 100 years ago in Malaysia and through strategic acquisition and sound management, the Group’s oil palm and rubber plantations today stand at approximately 250,000 hectares in Malaysia and Indonesia. Plantations remain KLK’s core business activity and with replanting in Sabah and vast new plantings in Indonesia progressively brought...
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...sources like vegetable oil, animal oil/fats or waste cooking oil. Biodiesel is a clean burning, non-toxic, biodegradable and environmentally friendly fuel that can be used in any diesel engine. The biggest possible source of suitable oil comes from oil crops such as palm or soybean. The vegetable oil and fats need to be converted into a fuel that can be blended in any proportion to conventional petroleum based diesel by a process called transesterfication. With this process, anyone can use the fuel without having to make any modifications on engine. Transesterfication was first conducted as early as 1853 by scientists, E.Duffy and J.Patrick many years ago before diesel engine became practical. People normally think that biodiesel fuel is only to be used for cars. It is true that biodiesel fuel is an environmentally friendly substitute for petroleum but however, biodiesel can be used in many other products. Biodiesel can also be used as a fuel for stove, for cooking. If you own a biodiesel generator, you can generate electricity to supply power to your house. It is very environmentally friendly and economical. Biodiesel Technology by FRIM Biodiesel technology falls under one of 5 research units in Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM), which is Bioenergy of Forest Product Divisions. FRIM has started conducting research and development (R&D) since 2008. Their R&D activities are geared towards exploring many types of alternatives to palm oil for biodiesel production...
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...company was listed on the main market of Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad as Felda Global Ventures Holdings Berhad. Today, Felda Global Ventures Holdings Berhad ranks among the top 25 companies on Bursa Malaysia with a market capitalization of RM16.6 billion. Felda Global Ventures Holdings Berhad employs close to 19,000 people in some 44 subsidiaries in over ten countries. PLANTATION |[pic] | |World’s third largest oil palm plantation operator by hectarage. | |Felda Global Ventures Holdings Berhad currently manages approximately 424,995 hectares of plantation estates in Malaysia as well as in Indonesia, primarily devoted to| |the cultivation of oil palms in East and Central Kalimantan. | DOWNSTREAM |[pic] | |Global presence in Downstream businesses...
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...COMPONENT AND PROCESS FLOW OF PALM OIL MILL CHE RAHMAT CHE MAT UNIT PENGILANGAN & PEMPROSESAN BAHAGIAN KEJURUTERAAN & PEMPROSESAN PALM OIL MILL RAW MATERIAL FRESH FRUIT BUNCH (1 Tonne) MAIN PRODUCTS CRUDE PALM OIL (20 – 22 %) BY-PRODUCTS PALM KERNEL (5 -6 %) EMPTY FRUIT BUNCH (20 – 22 %) FIBRE (12 – 14 %) SHELL (5 – 6 %) POME (60 – 65 %) BOILER ASH Process Flow Palm Oil Mill FFB LORRY FRESH FRUIT BUNCH (FFB) STRIPPER EMPTY BUNCH HOPPER CAGE STERILISER TIPPER FFB HOPPER Fruitlets FRUIT ELEVATOR Fibre DIGESTER FIBRE CYCLONE SCREW PRESS Press Cake SLUDGE TANK 1 DEPERICATER NUT POLISHING DRUM CLARIFIER BOILER Press Liqour SAND TRAP TANK NUT SILO DESANDER Standby usage SAND SLUDGE TANK 2 PUMP PUMP CRUDE OIL TUNK VIBRATING SCREEN MESH DESTONER WET KERNEL BANKER STONES Recycle Oil SLUDGE SEPARATOR PRODUCTION OIL TANK (CPO) ROLEK NUT CRACKER ROTARY BRUSH STRAINER FATS OIL TANK WINNOWING COLUMNS PURE OIL TANK PUMP VACUUM DRYER CLAY BATH Wet Shells DISPOSAL Wet Kernel KERNEL TRAY DRYER KERNEL SILO SAND SLUDGE PIT EFFLUENT TANK PURIFIER HOLDING TANK PUMP Project Planning 3 yrs before commissioning.. Submit all applications to the relevant authorities. Some of them are: MPOB - license DOE – effluent disposal PWD – access road Drainage & Irrigation Dept - river water Health dept – housing/ sanitation TNB – for power generation Mill Construction • Simple guide...
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...How much do you know about peanut oil? Peanut oil is a vegetable oil extracted from the seeds of the peanut. Peanut oil is an edible oil with a light and clean flavor that is commonly used for cooking. In general, peanut oil is made with peanut oil press machine. Peanut Oil Press Machine, also can suit for many material oil seed,like sunflower seed,soybean,sesame, cottonseed,etc. We made some types ,have different capacities. Oil Pressing Machine capacity is from 100kg/hour to 1t/hour. Before you can choose one suitable one, you can tell us the raw material you want to press, and the capacity you want to reach ,then we can suggest you one type suit for you. Choosing a good Edible Oil Mill Machinery manufacture is very important to customers. A good edible oil mill machinery manufacture can bring you many benefits. And a bad one can bring you a lot of trouble during your oil production work. We can produce all kinds of edible oil mill machinery, which includes peanut oil production line, soybean oil, cottonseed oil, sunflower oil, corn oil, rice bran oil and other kinds of edible oil production line. The whole production line includes oil press machine, oil extraction (solvent) machine, oil refining equipment, palm oil fractionation equipment, sunflower oil dewaxing plant, decoloring process machine, deodorization process machine and other machine. On the other hand, our factory developed ourselves, import many world advanced technology to strengthen our ability...
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...Assignment 4 – Group Assignment Palm Oil Dilemma in Indonesia Natural Resource Economics 601 – Lecturer: John Karasinski Word Count – 2,016 (not including Tables and Figures) Aaron Smith: 1662 4483 Leonardo Molinari: 1728 4820 Reuben Dias:1313 9900 Group Assignment 2 Palm Oil Dilemma in Indonesia Executive Summary Indonesia’s GDP is estimated at $US868 billion in 2013, which classifies it as a lower middle income country. GDP growth has averaged almost 6% over the last decade with a population growth averaging at 1.4%. Indonesia’s population is expected to grow at an annual growth rate of 0.57% to over 271 million by 2030. Indonesia’s industrial sector largely dominates production, contributing over 48% to aggregate economic activity (including oil and gas which accounts for 10% of GDP). The palm oil industry has the potential to generate significant social and economic development in Indonesia. It is Indonesia’s largest agricultural export and provides income and economic development to the large proportion of rural poor Indonesia. In recent decades the global market for palm oil has seen exponential growth with current production estimated at over 45 million tons, with Indonesia being one of the world’s, largest producers and exporters, producing over 18 million tons of palm oil annually. Although only contributing 8 % to GDP, the palm oil plantations provide for around two thirds of rural household incomes. Over 41% of plantations were owned by small land...
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...Oil palm plantation business models As of early 2011, oil palm plantations covered 7.8 million ha in Indonesia, out of which 6.1 million ha were productive plantations under harvest (Slette and Wiyono 2011). In 2010, these plantations produced 22 million tons of CPO and the production increased further to 23.6 million tons by the end of 2011. Most plantations, as well as CPO production, are located in Sumatra and Kalimantan (Indonesian part of Borneo). Between 1997 and 2006, 400,000 ha of oil palm plantations were established annually. Between 2007 and 2010, the size of annual establishment of oil palm plantations declined to 350,000 ha (Slette and Wiyono 2011). As new land available for plantations becomes more limited, annual development of plantation is expected to continue its gradual decline. However, over the next few years, land concessions already allocated for oil palm and not yet developed are sufficiently large to allow plantation estates to continue growing. There are three main types of business models for oil palm cultivation in Indonesia: private large-scale plantations and two types of smallholder models, i.e., nucleus estate smallholders, or NES, and independent smallholders. Smallholders manage nearly half of the overall plantation area; unfortunately government statistics do not distinguish between different types of smallholders. It is believed that smallholder operations have contributed significantly to the expansion of oil palm estates in recent...
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...ScienceDirect Energy journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/energy Oil palm biomass as a sustainable energy source: A Malaysian case study S.H. Shuit, K.T. Tan, K.T. Lee*, A.H. Kamaruddin School of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Engineering Campus, Seri Ampangan, 14300 Nibong Tebal, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Received 24 October 2008 Received in revised form 13 May 2009 Accepted 14 May 2009 Available online 13 June 2009 It has been widely accepted worldwide that global warming is by far the greatest threat and challenge in the new millennium. In order to stop global warming and to promote sustainable development, renewable energy is a perfect solution to achieve both targets. Presently million hectares of land in Malaysia is occupied with oil palm plantation generating huge quantities of biomass. In this context, biomass from oil palm industries appears to be a very promising alternative as a source of raw materials including renewable energy in Malaysia. Thus, this paper aims to present current scenario of biomass in Malaysia covering issues on availability and sustainability of feedstock as well as current and possible utilization of oil palm biomass. This paper will also discuss feasibility of some biomass conversion technologies and some ongoing projects in Malaysia related to utilization of oil palm biomass as a source of renewable energy. Based on the findings presented...
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...1. Sime Darby is one of the leading light of Malaysia’s economy. The company is playing a role as a diversified Multinational Corporation in conjunctions with few multi huge business sectors such as plantations, property, motors, industrial equipment, energy and utilities and healthcare, with operations in more than 20 countries. Over the past 200 years, Sime Darby has been through stages starting up from the scratch of an organization that shaped the society into a progressive way. The company states a simple yet achievable mission statement or a purpose “Making A Sustainable Future Real for Everyone”. This statement can be easily defined as bringing the company goals to a foreseeable future. Although the purpose is stated as simple as it does, but maintaining an organization within the hypercompetitive market should incorporated with great strategies. A purpose is a statement or a goal that states the desire of what an organizations aim to achieve. Moreover, it acts as a motivation quotes for employees to work as part of the company’s asset rather than a cost. It may seem the organization sustains a very valuable purpose for the company but the resolutions was not sufficient to pull the organization together and describes the organization’s value and aspirations. The purpose can be improved in a better way by defining the organization mission statement in a clearer manner. Without a clear mission, organization will not be heading on the right path and in turns create chaos...
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...Palm Oil Crisis in Thailand Palm oil has become the world’s leading vegetable oil in terms of consumption and production produced worldwide in 2009. The biggest producer, with a 47.6% share in production in 2009, was Indonesia, followed by Malaysia (38.8%) and Thailand (2.9%). Palm oil is versatile in its uses in the food and chemical industry and increasingly as a feedstock for biofuels. What is the Crisis? In 2011, Thailand was affected by the shortage of palm oil for cooking, despite being the world’s third-largest producer of the commodity. Thai people worried about not having oil to cook in their house. And the price of palm oil increased from 38 Baht to 47 Baht per bottle in the market. The palm oil product in that time decreased 14% while the demand for palm oil had increased 7%. What are the Causes of the Crisis? * The first cause of this crisis is estimating and stocking raw palm was wrong because of prolonged drought that affecting oil palm product. * The second cause of this crisis is increasing in demand for raw palm because of expanding Biodiesel product market. This affected year-end palm oil stocking was low until a crisis occurs. The year-end palm oil stocking had about 78,993 ton but it should be not lower than 120,000 ton. Therefore, Palm Oil Crisis in Thailand was happened throughout the industry and consumption. After the crisis had been solved found that the annual report of vegetable oil manufacturers had increased in net income more...
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...wellbeing, with brands that help people look good, feel good and get more out of life. Unilever was created in the 1890s, when William Hesketh Lever, founder of Lever Bros, introduced Sunlight Soap - revolutionary new product in Victorian England. It mission was 'to make cleanliness commonplace; to lessen work for women; to foster health and contribute to personal attractiveness, so that life may be more enjoyable and rewarding for the people who use our products'. Even today, Unilever believes that success means acting with 'the highest standards of corporate behavior towards our employees, consumers, societies and world in which we live'. Unilever Pakistan started its journey in 1948 at Rahim Yar Khan town with the setting up of vegetable oil factory. From there onwards, as a company we have seen much change in the last 70 years, currently, Unilever Pakistan is known as the largest FMGC, one of the largest MNC in Pakistan, and the ‘Top FMGC employer 2012’. As a company we are accountable for: • Make a positive difference to the lives of low income consumers; • Create new opportunities for growth; • Improve the overall quality of life in Pakistan, by promoting education, nutrition, health and hygiene. It is also important to note what has not changed at Digital Business, namely our commitments to providing exceptional client service and to living our core values: Excellence in Everything, Leadership by Example, Integrity and Transparency, Focus on the Client and Employee...
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