The use of palm oil continues to come under mounting scrutiny forcing companies to address their role in this industry. This has led Wilmar International Limited to launch a new program to map and monitor all of its suppliers. The palm oil giant plans to use satellites to monitor all of its palm oil suppliers, making it almost impossible for them to get away with forest destruction.

The pioneering move comes as bakery industry supplier Corbion has signed on as a member of the North American Sustainable Palm Oil Network (NASPON), through which major industry players in the region are collaborating to create a greener palm oil supply chain. Both companies are ramping up efforts to create a sustainable supply chain and eliminate some of the controversial practices that have been associated with it such as child labour and negative environmental impacts including deforestation.