104100 Manufacture of oils and fats

This type 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.

This type 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 type excludes:

• rendering and refining of lard and other edible animal fats (see 101100)
• manufacture of margarine (see 104200)
• wet corn milling (see 106200)
• manufacture of corn oil (see 106200)
• production of cocoa butter, cocoa fat, cocoa oil (see 108201)
• production of essential oils (see 205300)
• treatment of oil and fats by chemical processes (see 205900)