Tocotrienols as well as tocopherols are homologues of vitamin E. Vitamin E is a fatsoluble natural antioxidant and present in small amount in vegetable oils and fats. The importance of vitamin E, an essential vitamin, for keeping the good health in animals and human has long been recognized. Deficiency of vitamin E in animals would […]

Plastic materials have gained widespread use in the food, clothing, medical, shelter, transportation, construction and leisure industries due to its features of strength, lightweight, easily processable and energy efficient. However, plastics are made of petroleum-based materials called resins (e.g., polyethylene and polypropylene) that are not readily biodegradable. MPOB has developed a novel process to produce disintegrate plastics […]

Medium density fibreboard (MDF) is a nonstructural wood-based panel that is composed of wood fibres bonded together with resin under heat and pressure. The board density ranges from 400 kg m-3 to 900 kg m-3. At present, Malaysia has 10 MDF plants producing more than one million cubic metre of MDF in 2004. Most of […]

MPOB initiated a research project on the manufacture of Agrolumber from oil palm fibres, which focuses on outlets of special applications commanding a higher price. The so-called Agrolumber is a semi-structural composite product of lumber scantling, in which a thermosetting polymer resin is combined with reinforcing fibre preforms from oil palm fibres using the resin […]

Palm kernel expeller (PKE) is a nutritious product generated from kernel crushing plants. In 2003, Malaysia produced about 1.90 million tonnes of PKE and most of the production was exported to countries in the European Union (EU) whereby about 20% of the dairy rations in those countries use PKE as one of the common ingredients. […]