New Britain Palm Oil enjoys profits surge
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The sustainable palm oil firm released its unaudited preliminary results last Friday (24 February) for the year ending 31 December, highlighting pre-tax profits of around £173.7m ($275.5m) – up 110% on 2010.
It attributed its revenue results to increased volumes and higher prices for palm oil, with oil shipments – excluding from its Liverpool refinery – up 30% to a record 592,050 tonnes. Its average selling price for crude palm oil came in at around £698.5/tonne ($1,108/t), a 30% rise on 2010.
Antonio Monteiro De Castro, chairman of New Britain Palm Oil, said: “The group has enjoyed continued success over the past year, with record palm oil production and profitability. We have continued to invest in and expand our downstream refining and fractionation capacity and we are now seeing these investments deliver operational as well as financial benefits to the group.
“Production of crude oil rose by 24% to a record 551,657 tonnes at an extraction rate of 22.8% versus 22.4% last year. Overall, the group processed 2.42 million tonnes of oil palm fruit in 2011 representing a 22% increment over 2010.”
Source: British Baker