Food processing company Capitol Foods has opened a cocoa processing factory in Sierra Leone – a first for the West African country, African Business reported on 2 November.

Italian oil and gas company Eni has been exploring biofuel production opportunities in Mozambique, Eni announced on 5 November.

Global vegetable oil prices hit an all-time high in October, according to the benchmark United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Food Price Index released on 4 November.

Biofuel demand is expected to halve by 2050, according to a new report by RaboResearch announced on 3 November.

Global agribusiness giant Cargill has begun a US$35M expansion of its production plant in Port Klang, Malaysia as part of a wider US$100M investment designed to expand the company’s global speciality fats portfolio, the company announced on 8 November.

Energy infrastructure company Evolve Transition Infrastructure (Evolve) is working in partnership with renewable fuel project developer HOBO Renewable Diesel (HOBO) on a new renewable diesel plant, the companies announced on 4 November.

Bunge Loders Croklaan (BLC), the plant-based lipids business of global agribusiness giant Bunge, plans to build a new facility in the Port of Amsterdam, the company announced on 4 November.

Speciality chemicals company Vantage has announced that it would be increasing its production of surfactants and intermediates at its Leuna facility in Germany.

German chemical and biotech giant BASF has announced that the price of all products in its Care Chemicals portfolio in North America would be increasing significantly.

Global agribusiness giant Cargill has completed a US$100M cocoa processing expansion in Côte d’Ivoire to meet demand for dark brown cocoa powders, the company announced on 2 November.

The European Union (EU) imported around 1.3M tonnes of rapeseed in the first 15 weeks of the 2021/22 season, a fall of 43% compared to the same period the previous year, according to a report by the Union for the Promotion of Oil and Protein Plants (UFOP) on 27 October.

Global engineering company JGC Holdings has teamed up with petrochemical firm Cosmo Oil on a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) project in Japan using Honeywell technology, Honeywell announced on 28 October.

Swedish flexible sealing provider Roxtec has teamed up with transportation and logistics company GEODIS for the supply of sustainable marine fuel, Roxtec announced on 19 October.