Our Services

Investment Banking and Project Operation Services

Become one of our allies. Successfully invest in the oil palm business.

INDUPALMA offers identification, design, structuring and operational services for agronomic and industrial oil palm projects. With these services, we expand our experience of over 50 years of successful results and knowledge in the oil palm business both in Colombia and globally, to our clients and strategic allies.

Since 2000, Indupalma has structured and managed oil palm projects with allies in the Central Region of Colombia, driving, developing and consolidating 14 projects with 9.600 additional hectares of crops. During the following years the Company expects to develop 40.000 additional hectares, in which you can also participate, always counting with the support and experience of Indupalma.

Reasons to invest in palm oil

The palm oil agroindustry offers great opportunities for Colombia and its citizens because:
• Sustainable growth of economies in southeastern Asia, China and India, show an increasing demand in palm oil.
• The boom of biofuel, especially in Europe, United States, Brazil and Colombia, generates an increasing demand in plant oil in order to produce biodiesel.
• The oleo-chemical industry’s development, which offers an increasing opportunity to use palm and palm kernel oil as raw materials for manufacturing such products as: soaps, shampoos, creams, cosmetics, detergents, wax, plastic, rubber, textiles, lubricants, paints, etc.
• The availability of appropriate lands in Colombia with ideal conditions and our knowledge about growing oil palm without affecting the country’s environmental systems.

Our Services are directed to

Our services are directed to clients, peasants, landowners, strategic investors, current and new growers both within and outside Colombia, so that they become our allies in growing, producing and commercializing palm oil, thus favoring from the promising projections of the palm business in Colombia and globally.

Areas where we offer our services:

In Colombia
Central: Santander, Sur Cesar, North Santander and Antioquia regions.
Northern: Atlantico, Bolivar, Magdalena, North and Central Cesar, Guajira, Cordoba and Sucre regions.
Eastern: Meta, Arauca, Casanare, Caqueta and Cundinamarca regions.
Western: Nariño, Cauca, Valle and Choco regions.


Internationally
Central America:
Panama, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico and Costa Rica.
South America: Brazil and Ecuador.

INDUPALMA’s holistic service

From business planning through commercialization of its products both within and outside Colombia, through aspects such as growing, producing and processing, Indupalma offers a holistic service to its allies through identification, design, structure and operation of palm oil projects and businesses, which include:

• Technical and economic viability analysis of the Project.
• Project’s structuring and design.
• Project’s technical, financial and legal structure.
• Business’ agronomic, industrial and administrative operation.
• Guaranteed commercialization of oil palm products under current market conditions.
• Strategic support for the business’ development

Corporate Support: Why work with Indupalma

• Indupalma researches and secures lands that are appropriate for growing palm (land Banks): promotes relations with clients and/or project’s investing partners and encourages the structuring of agricultural associations or other enterprises, for oil palm growing or processing projects; advertises and promotes its products and manages the relations with Colombian and international entities to attract investments and technical cooperation for the projects.
• Experience speaks for itself. Today Indupalma offers its services to over 8.600 hectares of oil palm crops, with strategic allies in associated projects like El Palmar, El Horizonte, Empalmar, Coopsabana, Coopalmag, Coopalmares, Futuro de la Palma and La Elsa.
• The capability to identify and modify the projects’ financial management, according to variations in the economy and the markets surrounding the oil and vegetable fat industry.
• Management according to the needs of every project’s treasury, through instruments like autonomous equity and trust companies.
• Each one of these services is offered with the highest quality and competitive standards, which are characteristic of Indupalma. Such standards have awarded Indupalma with ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OHSAS 1800 and KOSHER certifications, as well as with the COLOMBIAN AWARD TO QUALITY MANAGEMENT in 2006.

Types of projects that INDUPALMA work with its allies

• Oil palm growing projects of interest groups.
• Individual oil palm growing projects.
• Oil palm plantation’s management.
• Projects for building and operating extracting facilities.
• Projects for Growing and Processing Palm oil in Alliance with foreign investors.

Private Capital Fund
A big investment

This product is oriented to attract private capital from private savings, from big corporate investors and Private Pension Funds, Severance Funds and other sources for saving that are available in capital markets, so that they are invested in big scale projects in agroindustry of palm oil both in Colombia and outside.

This Fund is established within current legal requirements, set by the Office of the Superintendence of Finance. In this case, the Private Capital Fund invests in the whole Project, including buying land and the crop’s development or the industrial process. The Project’s owner is the Fund and/or other possible investors that are interested in the Project.

Palm = Retirement
A Project for life

This product include investment projects in the palm oil agroindustry that are developed with resources from the Private Capital Fund (FCP in Spanish) in which Indupalma guarantees its management and logistics operation to its investors.

Service Costs
The value of INDUPALMA’s holistic services correspond to a percentage over the total costs of investment or income, depending on the phase or service required by each Project, according to:

Palm oil growing
The value for structuring and logistics operation is 14% of the total investment costs and expenses that are registered during non-productive periods (the first 3 years) and 8% over the total income that is generated by the crops’ production during productive periods (starting on the fourth year).

Crops management
The value of the logistics operation is 8% over the total income from the production of the fruit.

Extracting facilities assembly
The value of assembly and logistics operation is 14% of the total costs and expenses registered during pre investment phase (studies and assembly) and 5% over income during production phases.

Construction and operation of facilities for other productive processes
The value of structuring and logistics operation is 14% of total costs and expenses that are registered during the pre investment phase of the projects (studies and assembly) and 5% of income during production.

Aside from enjoying the benefits of a guaranteed service because of the Company’s experience and innovation, our clients-allies contribute to strengthen the oil offer, to respond to an increasing demand both in the Colombian and international markets.