- Business
- United Palm Oil Industry Public Company Limited (UPOIC.BK), together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells crude palm oil and crude palm kernel oil in Thailand. The company operates through two primary segments, Oil Palm Plantation, Crude Palm Oil and Crude Palm Kernel Oil Processing, and Generation of Electricity from Biogases and Biomasses; it produces and distributes crude palm kernel oil, palm kernel cakes, and palm kernel seeds, while holding concessions for forest reserve land usage and owning oil palm plantations in Krabi and Surat Thani provinces. Incorporated in 1978 and headquartered at No. 64, Soi Bangna-Trad 25, Bangna Nuea Sub-District, Bangkok, Thailand, the company serves domestic refineries and related industries within the farm products sector of consumer staples. United Palm Oil Industry Public Company Limited functions as a subsidiary of Lam Soon (Thailand) Public Company Limited, with related group entities including Lam Soon (Thailand) Public Company Limited, which operates a palm oil crushing mill and refinery, and Universal Food Public Company Limited (UFC), a fruit and vegetable processor. In recent developments, the company released its audited financial statements and annual report for the year ended December 31, 2024, in February 2025, alongside management discussion and analysis for Q1 2025 ending March 31 and Q2 2025 ending June 30; it also announced the appointment of a new Managing Director and Executive Director, Sanya Prasertsak, in 2024, and a Chief Financial Officer in April 2025, while electing to discontinue concession applications with the Forestry Department and not renew a forest reserve collection license in Surat Thani province, opting instead to procure external oil palm fruit bunches.