Sime Darby Plantation Bhd (SIPL)

Sime Darby Plantation Berhad, an investment holding company, engages in the integrated plantations business worldwide. The company operates through Upstream Malaysia, Upstream Indonesia, Upstream Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands, Downstream, and Other Operations segments. It is involved in the development, cultivation, and management of oil palm, rubber, coconut, and sugarcane plantation estates; milling of fresh fruit bunches into crude palm oil and palm kernel; processing and sale of rubber and sugar; and cattle rearing and beef production activities. The company operates 239 plantation estates covering 744,630 hectares of oil palm plantations, 70 palm oil mills, and 11 refineries. It is also involved in crushing palm kernel into crude palm kernel oils and palm kernel expellers; and manufacturing, blending, marketing, and distributing refined edible oils, specialty fats, special ingredients, tocotrienols, nutraceuticals, oleochemicals, ethanol, biodiesel, oil palm planting materials, and palm oil derivatives. In addition, the company engages in the provision of agriculture products and services, as well as oil palm tissue culture and technical product support services; production and sale of oil palm seeds and seedlings; research, advisory, and breeding programs of oil palm and rubber with special focus on genome science; and development of green technology and renewable energy. Further, it provides commodity trading, raw material procurement, logistics and market risk management, childcare, and local manpower and related services; manufactures and markets rat baits; manufactures and sells various fluidized, hydrolised, fractionated, and compounded lecithin products; owns, operates, and manages rest/guest houses, cafeterias/canteens; and rents conventional and recreational facilities. Sime Darby Plantation Berhad was incorporated in 2004 and is based in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. Sime Darby Plantation Berhad is a subsidiary of Permodalan Nasional Berhad.