Our Sustainability Milestones & Commitments

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Our Sustainability Milestones and Commitments

Our Sustainability Milestones Over the Years

1991 2003

1979

Acquired 8,000 Ha landbank in North Sumatra Successfully developed and handed

1996

No more new developments and land expansion, changing instead

1987

to join the Indonesian government’s Plasma Transmigration Program R&D centre successfully produced TOPAZ 1, a superior seed variety which can produce higher yields even in poor quality soils

2006

Became an RSPO member

1989

1983

Established a state of the art R&D centre to innovate and adopt cutting edge technologies, to enable estates to produce palm oil in a sustainable and environmentally friendly manner

2002

Established Planters School of Excellence

in Gunung Melayu, North Sumatra

1994

Implemented zero burn policy

2007

Set up tissue culture lab to clone oil palms

2005

Set up the Oil Palm Research Station (OPRS): Seed producing facilities

2012

Produced more than 1 million MT Crude Palm Oil Launched our independent smallholders programme in North Sumatra, Riau and Jambi, building on our successes of working with plasma scheme smallholders

2014

Achieved 100% ISCC

2017

Our independent smallholders with Amanah Association became Our plasma smallholders achieved

2016

Launched Fire Free Village Programme (FFVP) in all 3 provinces to help communities independent smallholders in Jambi to strengthen supply chain traceability

2019

for our own estates Stopped using paraquat in all of our own estates Commissioned 3 more biogas plants Completed FFB Traceability to Plantation project

2013

Indonesia’s largest number of smallholder partners with Achieved 100% ISCC Developed a Sustainability Policy which sets out our commitments to “No Deforestation, No Peat and No Exploitation” (NDPE)

2015

Plasma smallholders began replanting programme Commissioned 5 biogas plants and 6 Kernel Crushing Plants (KCPs)

2020

Started Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) prioritisation exercise, with the goal of integrating the SDGs into our approach to sustainability Commissioned 1 more mill and 1 more Kernel Crushing Plant (KCP)

2018

Our independent smallholders started replanting programme

commitment, matching 1Ha of our own land with 1Ha owned by smallholders

plasma scheme smallholder (KUD Bukit Potalo) Commissioned 2 more biogas plants and 3 more KCPs