Oil extraction rate (OER) and kernel extraction rate (KER) are two indicators of efficiency which can indirectly influence the profitability of any plantation enterprise. Being an integrated oil palm venture, this is of prime importance, because the final arbiter of commercial success is the oil yield per ha and not just FFB yield per ha […]

Engineers today are increasingly under pressure to think, not only in terms of handling pollutants which have been produced, but in terms of reducing or eliminating pollutants at source. If environmental management and planning were concepts integral to the thinking and training of engineers, a positive, rather than remedial attitude might prevail. This would encourage […]