PKFAD: PFAD’s Sharper Little Sibling
The palm tree yields two different oils — the fruit’s palm oil and the seed’s palm kernel oil — and refining each throws its own distillate. Where PFAD carries palm’s long-chain profile, PKFAD inherits the kernel’s defining trait: lauric richness, the C12-C14 chemistry that foams.
Why laurics command their premium
Lauric-chain soaps and surfactants lather instantly and rinse clean — the reason coconut and palm kernel derivatives rule the cleansing world. PKFAD delivers that chemistry at byproduct economics: soapers blend it for foam without premium-oil cost, and oleochemical splitters distil it toward lauric and myristic acids feeding the vast sulfate-surfactant chain. The distillate is smaller in tonnage than PFAD but sharper in purpose — bought for its chain profile, not just its FFA.
Traded on the profile
FFA, MIU and the lauric percentage set every PKFAD price. SIPL trades origin cargoes from Malaysia and Indonesia through Kandla’s import corridor, supplying Indian soapers and splitters in tankers and flexis, with flows onward to Bangladesh.
The foaming byproduct — visit the PKFAD page and request profile assays and pricing today.
