Focus On Agri Liquids

The Global Agri Liquids Market

In recent years, the agri liquids commodities market has seen substantial and steady growth. This has largely been fueled by worldwide population growth, increasing prosperity in developing countries, and rising industrial consumption of feedstock in the biodiesel, renewables, and oleochemicals markets.

A Challenging Year

However, this rapid growth of the global agri liquids industry was somewhat halted in 2020 as a result of adverse weather conditions, the widespread effects of COVID-19 and a global shortage of shipping containers.

Fortunately, the agri liquids commodities market is now beginning to recover from these challenges. The fish oil market is growing at an unprecedented rate, palm oil production in Malaysia and Indonesia is continuing to rise, and soybean production is recovering from last year’s terrible droughts.

Read more in our latest Focus on Agri Liquids newsletter.

SGS’s Expert Solutions

SGS has played a crucial role in supporting the agri liquids commodities supply chain. In this newsletter, we will introduce some of our agri liquids team members, explaining their expertise as it relates to specific agri commodities. The commodities highlighted in this newsletter include palm oil, soybean oil, rapeseed oil, sunflower oil, coconut oil, olive oil, molasses, used cooking oil and fish oil.

SGS experts are on hand at all times to provide our clients with trusted, independent testing and inspection services and ensure regulatory compliance throughout the supply chain. Our full range of services include:

• Bulk loading and discharge supervision
• Container and flexitank/bag loading and discharge supervision
• Sampling
• Quality and analytical testing
• Risk management

For more information, please contact:

Ard Assenberg van Eijsden
Global Business Manager Liquids
t: +31 88 214 4517

About SGS

SGS is the world's leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company. SGS is recognized as the global benchmark for quality and integrity. With more than 89,000 employees, SGS operates a network of over 2,600 offices and laboratories around the world.