Press Releases and Public Updates
8 June 2016
Sime Darby Plantation (SDP) is collaborating with Wild Asia (WA), a Malaysian-based social enterprise, to assist small oil palm producers in the Lower Kinabatangan area in Sabah to be part of its sustainable palm oil value chain.
25 April 2016
Seven years after successfully decoding the oil palm genome, Sime Darby Plantation commenced its first large scale planting of Genome Select high yielding oil palms, a major milestone that will allow the company to produce more oil with existing land.
11 December 2015
Sime Darby Plantation (SDP), one of the signatories of the Sustainable Palm Oil Manifesto which commissioned the High Carbon Stock (HCS) Science Study last year, plans to carry out trials in its Liberian operations following the release of the findings from the study.
17 November 2015
Sime Darby Plantation (SDP), the world’s largest producer of certified sustainable palm oil, has launched ‘Open Palm’ – an online dashboard that provides critical information on the traceability of its supply chain.
6 October 2015
Sime Darby Plantation (SDP), the world’s biggest producer of sustainable palm oil, has launched a hotspot monitoring dashboard in the interest of transparency and to provide insights that could lead to long-term solutions to the recurring haze situation.
19 June 2015
A landmark scientific study which will provide a definition of high carbon stock forests, enabling oil palms to be grown more sustainably, is now open for public consultation.
13 May 2015
50 scientific experts are nearing the completion of a set of research reports, which were initiated in February this year.
2 March 2015
Sime Darby Plantation (SDP), the plantation arm of Sime Darby Berhad, has completed the acquisition of New Britain Palm Oil Limited (NBPOL) today, bringing it closer to meeting its expansion target.
28 November 2014
Sime Darby Berhad recorded a pre-tax profit of RM674.9 million and a net profit of RM500.7 million for the first quarter ended 30 September 2014 (1Q FY2014/15), representing a slight increase of 1 percent and 2 percent respectively, compared to the same period in the last financial year.