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About This President’s About 2023 Apical2030 Approach to Transformative
Report Statement Apical Highlights Highlights Sustainability Partnerships

APICAL GROUP
SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2023
TRANSFORMATIVE PARTNERSHIPS

OUR SUPPLY CHAIN PROFILE
GRI 2-6, 204-1
Apical operates as a midstream processor, exporter, and trader. We do not own any plantations or mills.
Our primary raw materials include Crude Palm Oil (CPO), Crude Palm Kernel Oil (CPKO) and Palm Kernel (PK),
all of which are sourced from external mills. These raw materials are then processed in facilities owned by Apical.

Our Supply Chain Profile in Indonesia
378 CPO supplying mills 121 CPKO suppliers 166 PK suppliers
Notes:
• Apical sources CPO from mills to process and produce palm oil products.
• Apical sources CPKO from kernel crushing plants to process and produce palm kernel oil products. CPKO is produced from the
processing of palm kernel.
• The above figures only cover our facilities in Indonesia. External suppliers from our operations in China and Spain are excluded.
• Some of our direct CPO supplying mills also supply PK to Apical.
100% of our procurement spend 16% and 3% of our procurement spend in our operations in Spain and
for our Indonesian operations is China are from local suppliers, respectively
from local suppliers
Notes:
Local suppliers are defined as those based in the same region

CPO and CPKO originates from the processing of FFB. FFB are sourced by mills from their own estate,
third-party commercial estates, smallholder cooperatives and schemes, independent smallholders and
dealers. Apical also sources CPO and CPKO from traders.

8.81% of the total volume of CPO 4.07% of the total volume of CPKO sourced comes from traders
sourced comes from traders

TRACEABILITY OF OUR PALM OIL Traceability to Mill
GRI 3-3
Our suppliers primarily operate in the major provinces
Achieving traceability within our supply chain is a of Riau, North Sumatra, Jambi, Sulawesi, and
crucial component of our sustainability commitment, Kalimantan. A significant 93.91% of our palm oil is
especially given the complexity of the palm oil industry. sourced directly from these mills, with the balance
We engage closely with all our suppliers to ensure the obtained through trading companies.
traceability of our palm oil supply chain.

Maintained 100%
traceability to supplying
mills since 2015

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