Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism

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Factory

This activity includes the manufacture of crude and refined oils and fats from vegetable or animal materials, except rendering or refining of lard and other edible animal fats. This activity includes: - manufacture of crude vegetable oils: olive oil, soya-bean oil, palm oil, sunflower-seed oil, cotton-seed oil, rape, colza or mustard oil, linseed oil etc. - manufacture of non-defatted flour or meal of oilseeds, oil nuts or oil kernels - manufacture of refined vegetable oils: olive oil, soya-bean oil etc. - processing of vegetable oils: blowing, boiling, dehydration, hydrogenation etc. - manufacture of margarine - manufacture of melanges and similar spreads - manufacture of compound cooking fats This activity also includes: - manufacture of non-edible animal oils and fats - extraction of fish and marine mammal oils - production of cotton linters, oilcakes and other residual products of oil production. This activity excludes: - rendering and refining of lard and other edible animal fats, see 101 - wet corn milling, see 106 - production of essential oils, see 2029 - treatment of oil and fats by chemical processes, see 2029