Sipef NV operates as an agro-industrial company focused on the sustainable production of tropical commodities, primarily through its palm oil segment producing fresh fruit bunches, crude palm oil, palm kernels and crude palm kernel oil; its rubber segment offering ribbed smoked sheets, scraps and lumps; its tea segment providing cut, tear and curl tea; and its bananas and horticulture segment delivering certified bananas, pineapple flowers, lotus flowers and foliage. The company conducts these labour-intensive plantation activities in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire, with additional operations in Singapore and sales reaching Europe; it was founded in 1919 and maintains headquarters in Schoten, Belgium. Sipef NV employs over 23,000 people across its subsidiaries and sources fresh fruit bunches from more than 8,000 smallholder farmers spanning 28,000 hectares in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, while investing in research through Verdant Bioscience Pte Ltd for high-yielding palm varieties. In 2024 and 2025, the company expanded banana plantations by 580 hectares in Côte d'Ivoire, boosting production 24.6%; converted the Sei Jerinjing rubber estate in Bengkulu to 1,298 hectares of new oil palm; initiated construction of its first bio-compressed natural gas facility at the Perlabian mill in North Sumatra with plans for two more in South Sumatra; joined the Palm Oil Collaboration Group and High Conservation Value Network; advanced greenhouse gas accounting aligned with Science Based Targets; supported RSPO certification for over 300 independent smallholders; and progressed the divestment of PT Melania with amended terms, all while executing a USD 100 million investment program funded by operational cash flow and forecasting record crude palm oil production of around 430,000 tonnes for 2025.