Business and Products

Crude Palm Oil Production and Distribution Business

Crude Palm Oil Production and Distribution Business

Smothong Group Public Company Limited and its subsidiaries (“the Group” or “SMO”) engage in the production and distribution of crude palm oil and related products as the Group's core business. The main products are crude palm oil and palm kernels. Crude palm oil is an intermediate product used as a raw material in various downstream industries, such as biodiesel production, food industries, and oleochemical industries. The end products derived from these downstream industries are familiar consumer goods, including cooking oil, biodiesel, cosmetics, and snacks.

In addition, the crude palm oil production process yields another important main product: Palm Kernel (PK), which is used as a raw material for producing Crude Palm Kernel Oil (CPKO). Crude palm kernel oil serves as a raw material for various downstream industries, such as the food industry, animal feed industry, oleochemical industry, and cosmetics industry.

Besides the main products, the production process also generates several by-products, including palm shells, palm fiber, empty fruit bunches, shredded bunches, decanter cake, and dried decanter cake. These can be sold to customers in various industries, such as the renewable energy power generation industry, the livestock industry, or used as fuel in industrial factories. Therefore, it is considered a crude palm oil production business with Zero Waste, or one that generates minimal waste from the production process.

Main Products

Crude Palm Oil (CPO)

Crude Palm Oil (CPO)

Crude Palm Oil is the product obtained from the process of extracting oil from Fresh Fruit Bunches (FFB) and filtering out impurities until pure crude palm oil is achieved. The Oil Extraction Rate (OER) varies according to the quality of the fresh fruit bunches. It is used as a raw material in various downstream industries, including the food industry, such as frying oil, cooking oil, margarine, non-dairy creamer, shortening, cakes, bread, and ice cream, as well as health supplement products containing Vitamin E and Vitamin A. Secondly, Biodiesel Group, Crude palm oil is widely used to produce biodiesel. Its advantages include complete combustion and the reduction of pollutant emissions such as soot, carbon monoxide (CO), carbon dioxide (CO2), and sulfur dioxide (SO2). Besides, Oleochemical Group includes fatty acids, fatty alcohols, glycerin, and methyl fatty esters. These compounds are used as raw materials for products ranging from cosmetics to industrial lubricants.

Furthermore, to ensure that the production of crude palm oil meets quality standards before delivery to customers, the Group has a quality control process involving sample testing in laboratories certified under the internationally recognized ISO/IEC 17025:2017 standard. This ensures that the crude palm oil delivered to the Group's customers meets their quality expectations, allowing the Group to consistently export crude palm oil to both domestic and international customers.

Dried Palm Kernels

The palm kernel is the innermost core of the palm fruit, characterized as an opaque white, hard seed. It is a raw material that must undergo oil extraction before being used in downstream industries. The primary product obtained after extraction is Crude Palm Kernel Oil (CPKO). It has a pale yellow appearance similar to vegetable oil and possesses different properties from crude palm oil, such as being able to solidify at room temperature and having high heat resistance. It can be utilized in various industries, including the food industry, beauty industry, and the textile and paper industries.

Dried Palm Kernels

By-products

Palm Shell (Shell)

Palm shell is the outermost shell of the palm kernel, obtained from the seed-cracking process. It is brown in color and hard in texture. It is commonly used as a replacement fuel in industry due to its high heating value.

Shredded Empty Fruit Bunches (Long Fiber)

Shredded bunches are products obtained by extracting oil from empty fruit bunches, which are then finely shredded. They are typically used as fuel in biomass power plants or as a substitute for other types of fuel.

Fiber

Fiber is a product obtained from the crude palm oil extraction process, appearing as fine strands. The company uses this fiber as fuel for steam boilers to generate electricity and thermal energy for internal use within the business and the factory's production processes to reduce dependence on external energy sources.

Decanter Cake (Cake)

Decanter cake is a product obtained from the process of separating crude palm oil from sediment; decanter cake is the sedimentary portion removed from the crude palm oil. This cake can be used as an ingredient in animal feed due to its high protein content or used as a raw material for biogas production.

Dry Decanter Cake

Dry decanter cake is a product obtained by taking decanter cake and applying hot air from the steam boiler chimney—which was originally waste heat—to remove moisture. This results in a longer shelf life and higher value-added. Dry decanter cake is high in protein and can be sold to livestock farmers for use as an animal feed ingredient to replace other feed types.

Logo

Smothong Group Public Company Limited

119/1 Moo 10, Prasong Sub-district, Tha Chana District, Surat Thani 84170
Tel: 077-951470-4 Fax: 077-951471

©2025-2026 Smothong Group PLC, All rights reserved.

designed by Indigo International