About

M.P. Evans is an Indonesian producer of sustainable crude palm oil with plantations in five Indonesian provinces.

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M.P. Evans Group PLC owns oil-palm plantations in Indonesia and has an investment in a property company in Malaysia. Its shares are traded on the London Stock Exchange AIM.

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History

Since the inception of the business importing tea from Ceylon in the 1870s, M.P. Evans has evolved and grown to the company we see today, employing more than 11,500 staff and producing palm oil in a responsible and sustainable manner.

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Strategy

The Group’s strategy is to maintain steady expansion of its majority-owned Indonesian palm-oil areas in a sustainable and cost-effective manner.

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Assets

The Group owns highly valuable plantation land and palm-oil mills distributed across its Indonesian estates.

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Our board

Board working

Board objective

Directors' responsibilities

Board committees

Board evaluation

Corporate governance

Chairman's statement

Index of compliance

Risk management

Plantations

The Group’s plantations are spread across five Indonesian provinces.

Plantations

The Group’s plantations are spread across five Indonesian provinces: North Sumatra, South Sumatra, Aceh, Bangka-Belitung and East Kalimantan.

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Map & locations

Explore our key estates and statistics.

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Growth

Growth continues to come from the increasing maturity of the Group’s estates, improving yields, and from the acquisition and sustainable development of new land.

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Operational excellence

Field work

Harvesting

Mills

Occupational safety and health

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Suppliers and contractors

New land

All new land is developed in accordance with appropriate sustainability guidelines.

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Approach

Ethical code of conduct

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Modern slavery statement

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Whistleblowing

Complaints and grievances

Sustainability

M.P. Evans is committed to long-term sustainability.

Sustainability

The Group has a dedicated sustainability department based in Jakarta, led by a senior manager and supported by dedicated field staff resident on the Group’s estates. Compliance with RSPO standards is independently verified.

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Sustainability reports

The Group is committed to sustainability reporting and has published both carbon reporting and separate sustainability reporting as shown below, and these reports are available to download from this section of the Group’s website.

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Environment

Biogas generation

Greenhouse gas emissions

Water, chemicals and waste

Conservation and biodiversity

People

Community

Employees

Smallholders

Indicators

Environmental indicators

Social indicators

Governance indicators

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Policies

Group policies cover different aspects of our approach to sustainability, which applies to employees, service providers, suppliers and visitors alike.

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Palm oil

Palm oil is the world's most used vegetable oil. Indonesia is the world's number one producer.

Palm oil

Since 1990, world demand for vegetable oils has increased at 4% per year; that for palm oil 7%. It is the world’s most popular vegetable oil and its most traded.

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Palm oil fast facts

Key facts, figures and Q&A about palm oil.

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Palm oil market

Palm oil is used mainly as a cooking oil but also in a wide range of consumer goods, processed foods and in the production of bio-diesel.

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Palm life cycle

From the cultivation of germinated palm seeds in nurseries on our estates, the Group nurtures each palm through its life cycle of around 25 years.

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Sustainable palm oil

M.P. Evans is a member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (“RSPO”). Properly applied, RSPO criteria can help to minimise the negative impact of palm oil cultivation on the environment and communities in palm oil-producing regions. All Group estates are run in accordance with the RSPO's standards.

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