In a palm oil mill, the screw press may be the most “silent” piece of equipment. It lacks the roar of a boiler and the vibration of a centrifuge, yet its wear condition silently determines how much oil you can extract from every ton of fresh fruit bunches. Most mill managers focus o…

At a palm oil mill processing 800 tons of fresh fruit bunches (FFB) per day, roughly 14 tons of oil are lost during processing every single day. At current crude palm oil prices, that adds up to millions of dollars in hidden losses each year. Industry data shows that total oil loss in a palm oi…