| Abstract: | An attempt is being made to determine the importance of palm and lauric oil today and in the coming years of this decade whereby
their industrial use in western Europe is considered outside the field of human and animal nutrition. The basic oleochemicals
like fatty acids, fatty acid methyl esters, fatty alcohols and their most important derivatives are discussed as the essential
products. Detergents are one of the most significant areas of application for basic oleochemicals and their derivatives. Changes
in the application profiles of the final products are expected for the detergent industry in the coming years. These tendencies
have been scrutinized with respect to their influence on future demand for palm and lauric oil. The competitiveness of natural
oil-based oleochemicals versus ethylene-and paraffin-based synthetics is of great significance for the development of natural
oils. It is attempted to elucidate the chances of natural oleochemicals in connection with petrochemical raw material developments. |
