OILEX is a regional Egyptian Soybeans crusher with more than 15 years of commitment to the feed industry. OILEX plant is located in Sadat City in Egypt, mid way between Egyptian Mediterranean ports and the Delta area Producing consistent high quality Soybean Meal 44% protein, Soybeans Meal 48% protein and pure crude and degummed soybean oil.
Does Egypt rely on cotton seeds for oil production?
Egypt does not rely on upon them for oil production. Cotton crop that is one of the dual-purpose crops is generally grown for textile industry. The cotton seeds are then utilized to produce crude cottonseed oil either by pressing or by solvent extraction or by both of the two technologies together.
Which vegetable oil is imported by Egypt?
Table 2: Quantities of various vegetable oils imported by Egypt from 2015 to 2018 in ton). It is clear that palm oil is the major oil imported by Egypt whereby it represents about 60% of total imported oils in 2018 while the quantity imported from corn oil is the least being about 3% in the same year.
How much oil does Egypt eat a year?
Currently, Egypt consumes about 2.5 million tons of edible oils annually. Only, about 48.5 thousand tons of this quantity is produced by oilseed extraction in local extraction plants. About half of this quantity is produced mainly from cottonseed produced as a byproduct of cotton ginning industry.