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Energy & Commodities

China’s used cooking oil ships to US as war drives biofuel boom

Fuel makers now are scrambling to acquire feedstocks to churn out renewable diesel

Malaysia, the world’s second largest palm oil producer, has been boosting efforts to crack down on fraud in the used cooking oil industry.
Asean Business

Malaysia to introduce official used cooking oil reference price in early 2026

[KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia will introduce an official reference price for used cooking oil in the first quarter of this year to prevent price manipulation in the sector, its commodities minister said on ...

“We are considering terminating business with China having to do with Cooking Oil, and other elements of Trade, as retribution,” US President Donald Trump said on his Truth Social platform.
Global Enterprise

Trump threatens to end cooking oil purchases from China

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump slammed China’s halt of American soybean purchases as an “economically hostile act,” warning on Tuesday that his country could in turn stop buying cooking oil from the world’...

Oiltek International's executive director and chief executive Yong Khai Weng believes novelty is what fetches businesses bigger growth and a larger premium.
Companies & Markets
TOPLINE

Mainboard-hopeful Oiltek gets slick with innovation, internationalisation

The vegetable and edible oil process engineering firm is riding a wave of ‘buy’ calls

The Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) is reviewing its standards and policies governing used cooking oil (UCO) and palm industry waste known as sludge palm oil (SPO) to better distinguish them in order to prevent discrepancies in exports.
Energy & Commodities

Malaysia will crack down on fraud in used cooking oil exports, official says

Western governments are concerned that biofuels feedstock from Asia actually contain virgin oil

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