Isatou Bittaye
A new company, Gambia Vegetable Oil Company will soon start to operate a palm oil refinery in The Gambia. This was revealed by the company’s General manager Mr. Kishor in an exclusive interview with Foroyaa last week at the factory at Oyster Creek (Denton) Bridge near Banjul. The company is jointly owned with three other Gambians.
Kishor said the company will concentrate on refining palm oil but also engage in soya beans and solvent groundnut oil refining in the near future. Mr. Kishor noted that the raw materials needed for the refining of palm oil is crude oil and will be imported from Malaysia and Indonesia.
He indicated that the palm oil, if refined, will be sold in the Gambia for local consumption but that 70% will be exported to other African countries because of the low consumption of palm oil in The Gambia. Mr. Kishor said that the refining process will soon start, noting that the key persons for operating the machines will come from India but the local people will be trained later. He indicated that in Soya bean refining the raw material will be brought from Argentina or China and for that of the solvent groundnut from Senegal and Nigeria. Mr. Kishor said the main purpose of the company is to get the low cost of oil and that also crude oil will be imported in order to have good quality refining oil.
This entry was posted
on Tuesday, August 7th, 2007 at 9:33 am and is filed under Palm Oil World News.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
July 28th, 2008 at 8:55 am
Dear Sir,
If you would like to expand to the U.S., please contact me with your information and I will assist you. We are currently seeking palm oil for our clients along with other minerals. We are not brokers. We are a legal company that is registered with the DOD and ready to create revenue and build lasting relationships with companies that want to do business.
Best Regards,
Dr. Lisa Jones
J.L. Asset Management International
August 13th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
goodday, pls am intrested in ur prouduct can i have the price and the procedure thanks.
October 1st, 2008 at 7:50 pm
Dear Sirs,
I would like to have some more information about your business.
In particular, I would like to ask you if you can provide local (Gambian) businesses with affordably priced industrial quality (filtrated, pure, low fatty acids) crude palm oil.
We are looking for small amounts (approx. 500 to 1000 litres per month) with increasing demand depending on price-performance ratio.
We wonder when you will be able to start sales projects and deliveries, and if you are willing to deal with small business start-ups.
Best regards,
Dipl.-Inform. Peer I. Kuchenmeister
Managing Director, Q-ORG (UK) Ltd.