CAEN Code 1041: Manufacture of oils and fats

This class includes:

• Manufacture of crude vegetable oils: olive oil, soybean oil, palm oil, sunflower seed oil, cottonseed oil, rapeseed oil, mustard oil, and 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

This class 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 class excludes:

• rendering and refining of lard and other edible animal fats, see CAEN 1011
• See the manufacturing process of margarine CAEN 1042
• wet corn milling, see CAEN 1062
• manufacture of corn oil, see CAEN 1062
• production of essential oils, see CAEN 2053
• treatment of oil and fats by chemical processes, see CAEN 2059