Small companies in the palm oil industry view the downstream sector with apprehension due to the high capital and R&D needed to establish refineries and the production of oleochemicals and oleo derivatives. However, our guests today, Rosidah Radzian, Director of the Product Development Research & Advisory Services and Yeong Shoot Kian, Head of Synthesis & Product Development Unit, disagrees. The opportunity lies further downstream, in the realm of end products.