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The crop, the works and the register. We publish the difficult seasons as well as the good ones.
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Benzoin season opens with floor prices posted at all four stationsTapping began across the Tapanuli uplands this month, with the season floor price posted before the first lot arrived.
A second fractionation column goes in at the Medan worksThe addition doubles capacity on resin fractions and brings patchouli fractionation in-house year-round.Household register passes 1,400 familiesFifteen years after it opened, the register now covers every benzoin lot we buy and most of our patchouli.
Cold-process cananga enters its second trial seasonAn extraction route that keeps more of the green top than steam does — promising, unfinished, and being reported either way.
A difficult patchouli season, reported as it happenedAceh rainfall pushed patchouli alcohol below our usual floor. We published the range rather than blending to hide it.
Europe representation opens in GrasseA single office, so European customers are an hour from somebody who knows the crop rather than a timezone.Images and documents cleared for publication.
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