DECATUR, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE: ADM) today announced its intention
to exclusively offer Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) certified
sustainable palm oil to North American customers beginning in 2015. ADM
is also working with Wilmar International Limited to provide fully
traceable, sustainable palm oil that meets the RSPO Mass Balance
standards.
“ADM and Wilmar share a commitment to environmental stewardship and
community preservation. ADM supports Wilmar’s recent, ‘No Deforestation,
No Peat, No Exploitation’ policy, which is designed to advance industry
transformation to help protect people and the environment,” said Ray
Bradbury, vice president of ADM’s North American Oils group. “This
enables us to offer customers a palm oil product that is fully traceable
and sourced from crops that are responsibly grown and harvested.”
Palm oil is an extraordinarily versatile product employed in a wide
range of applications. Refined varieties are used in manufacturing
shortenings, cooking oils, margarines, baked goods and a host of other
food ingredients and finished products. ADM has palm distribution and
processing facilities in Lincoln, Nebraska; Quincy, Illinois; Valdosta,
Georgia and New Orleans that currently offer certified sustainable palm
oil.
ADM offers the industry’s largest portfolio of food oils, from soybean,
canola, cottonseed and sunflower to coconut, palm and palm kernel, as
well as custom oil blends. Behind every ADM food oil is a comprehensive
global research and development network with state-of-the-art facilities
and oil specialists to assist with product development and formulation
challenges.
For more information about ADM Oils, visit www.adm.com/oils.
For more information on ADM’s sustainability programs, visit www.adm.com/responsibility.
For more information on Wilmar’s ‘No Deforestation, No Peat, No
Exploitation’ policy, visit http://www.wilmar-international.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/No-Deforestation-No-Peat-No-Exploitation-Policy.pdf.
About ADM
For more than a century, the people of Archer Daniels Midland Company
(NYSE: ADM) have transformed crops into products that serve vital needs.
Today, 31,000 ADM employees around the globe convert oilseeds, corn,
wheat and cocoa into products for food, animal feed, industrial and
energy uses. With more than 270 processing plants, 470 crop procurement
facilities, and the world’s premier crop transportation network, ADM
helps connect the harvest to the home in more than 140 countries. For
more information about ADM and its products, visit www.adm.com.
Archer Daniels Midland Company
Media Relations
Jackie Anderson, 217-424-5413
media@adm.com