Unilever is using biomethane made from palm oil waste to help lower emissions at its facility in Indonesia, becoming the first company to buy the gas for industrial use in the Asian country.

The multinational group has partnered with KIS Group, a leading biogas provider in Asia, to secure biomethane supplies.

To make its palm oil supply chain more transparent and traceable, and help maintain ‘no deforestation’ for this key commodity, the multinational consumer group is working directly with producers and mills, bypassing traditional intermediaries and bringing much of its palm oil refining in-house.

To help ensure that more of the palm-derived ingredients that create lather in many of its global products are made this way, it has expanded Unilever Oleochemical Indonesia (UOI), its palm oil processing facility in Sei Mangkei, North Sumatra.

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