Daabon Completes Agropalma Acquisition: The Largest Sustainable Palm Oil Producer in the Americas — What It Means for US Buyers

What Changed: The Daabon-Agropalma Deal in Concrete Terms

Here is what the acquisition actually transfers, stated plainly.

Why Brazil? The Pará Thesis Behind Daabon’s Move

Daabon’s entry into Brazil rests on a clear bet about where sustainable palm oil can grow next. As Giancarlo Dávila, CEO of Agropalma, put it: the integration of Agropalma into the Daabon Group is an opportunity to strengthen the responsible development of the palm oil sector in Brazil, bringing the group’s expertise in agriculture, industrialization, and sustainable development to the country.

Pará offers the land, climate, and established plantation base to expand supply without pushing into new frontier forest. Daabon has committed to investing in the productivity of the palm it acquired, building on Agropalma’s existing operations rather than starting from scratch, and to working alongside local talent in Pará to build a competitive business for the long term.

The environmental logic matters as much as the agronomic one. The Pará holding pairs planted palm with a larger block of protected forest reserve — conservation and cultivation on the same land. That model fits Daabon’s own record: in 2023, Daabon became the first palm oil producer in the world to achieve Gold-level Regenerative Organic Certified (ROC™).

For Manuel Dávila, managing director of Daabon Europe, the fit is cultural as well as operational: Agropalma is a family farming business that shares the group’s values and long-term commitment to sustainable palm oil in Brazil.

What the Daabon-Agropalma Acquisition Means for US Palm Oil Buyers

The news matters, but the sourcing implications matter more. Here is what your procurement, formulation, and sustainability teams should take from this deal.

Expanded Capacity and Stronger Supply Security

Daabon now runs two large operations in two countries. Its Colombian base spans roughly 30,000 hectares, and the new Pará assets add 107,000 hectares of land with about 39,000 hectares of planted palm. For buyers signing five- to seven-figure annual ingredient contracts, that combined scale strengthens the case for multi-year supply continuity. Daabon USA, based in Miami, remains your US-facing logistics and account anchor.

Dual-Origin Sourcing That Spreads Your Risk

Most of the world’s palm oil comes from Indonesia and Malaysia. That concentration carries real exposure: political, regulatory, ESG, and shipping. A supplier rooted in Colombia and Brazil gives you a Western Hemisphere hedge against all four. Shorter routes to US ports are a practical bonus, trimming lead times against Southeast Asian origin.

Are You Ready for the Regulations Already Moving West?

The EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) set the baseline: traceable, deforestation-free sourcing. The UK followed, announcing its own anti-deforestation rules during London Climate Action Week, covering palm oil, soy, cocoa, coffee, and rubber. US guidance is a reasonable next step. Daabon has stated its palm oil already meets or exceeds the traceability, legality, and deforestation-free requirements of both EUDR and the coming UK rules, which positions your supply ahead of US action whenever it arrives.

Does Daabon’s Certification Stack Extend to the Brazil Supply?

Daabon’s existing certification record — built on its Colombian operations — is a sequence of category firsts:

• 1992First palm oil producer to offer USDA certified organic palm oil.
• 2016First (and only) Fair Trade USA certification in palm oil.
• 2017First RSPO-certified producer in its category.
• 2023First to achieve Gold-level Regenerative Organic Certified (ROC™), globally and in South America.

Daabon has stated it will invest in aligning the newly acquired Agropalma operations to those same standards. Until that alignment is confirmed complete, buyers should treat the certifications above as Daabon’s established Colombian record and request current documentation for any Brazil-origin volume.

Application Fit and a Provenance Story You Can Tell

The Agropalma operations already serve bakery, pastry, cooking, dairy and ice cream, industrial frying, cosmetics, and oleochemicals — with organic formulations and customized solutions on offer. Zoom out, and Daabon Group supplies not just palm oil but bananas, cocoa, coffee, avocados, and limes. For clean-label and personal-care brands — the Pieminister, Dr. Bronner’s, and Soapworks archetype — supplier provenance is part of the product story. A family-owned business run by three generations of the Davila Abondano family since 1914, committed to farming in the right way for people and planet, gives your brand something real to tell.

The Combined Certification and Food Safety Stack

A serious supplier evaluation runs on two tracks. Your sustainability officer reads certification depth; your QA and regulatory reviewers read food-safety systems. The combined Daabon-Agropalma operation is built to answer both in one relationship.

On the sustainability side, Daabon’s record is the series of category firsts outlined above, from USDA Organic through Gold-level ROC™. Behind those labels sits the harder commitment: full traceability to the plantation level, deforestation-free sourcing, no planting on peat, and no clearing of forestland. That is the traceability depth brand-story buyers need — not mass-balance accounting, but supply you can trace to the ground it grew on.

On the food-safety side, the Agropalma operations bring their own stack: FSSC 22000, NBR ISO 22000:2019, and NBR ISO/TS 22002-1:2012. Sustainability certifications alone don’t clear a QA review; these food-safety management standards are what your quality and regulatory teams actually audit against.

Daabon has stated it will invest in aligning the Agropalma operations to its sustainability certifications over time. Until that alignment is confirmed, the sustainability certifications above reflect Daabon’s Colombian operations, and the food-safety standards reflect Agropalma’s Brazilian operations.

What Changes for Existing Agropalma Customers

If you already source from Agropalma, the deal raises a fair question: what happens to your supply now?

The early signals point to continuity, not disruption. The Agropalma brand and name carry forward — this is a change of ownership, not a rebrand. As André Gasparini, Agropalma’s Commercial, Marketing and R&D Director, framed it, the completion of the transaction with Daabon ensures the continuity of Agropalma’s historic commitment to quality and socio-environmental responsibility. Daabon has committed to expanding the support and engagement programs Agropalma already runs with family farmers in Brazil, and to investing in the productivity of the palm plantations, with its own certification standards to be aligned over time. Those are the moves of a long-term custodian, not a supplier winding an operation down.

For questions specific to your contract — terms, pricing, and supply scheduling — the most reliable answer will come from a direct conversation with the Daabon team.

The Americas as the New Sustainable Palm Oil Region

Beyond any single contract, this acquisition reshapes where sustainable palm oil comes from. Daabon now anchors operations across two countries: roughly 30,000 hectares in Colombia alongside 107,000 hectares in Pará, Brazil, of which about 39,000 are planted palm and 64,000 are protected reserve. That is no longer one supplier with an interesting origin story. It is the beginning of a credible Western Hemisphere supply base for sustainability-committed brands.

For North American buyers, a regional alternative to Southeast Asia is worth more than a single vendor relationship. It means hemispheric supply-chain resilience, sourcing rooted in countries closer to your ports, and lower exposure to the political and regulatory volatility that has shadowed the dominant producing region. When the Americas can supply certified, traceable palm oil at scale, your sourcing strategy gains an option it did not have before.

The reach is not regional in the limiting sense. The combined operation serves buyers across the Americas, Europe, the UK, and Asia-Pacific through Daabon’s network of regional offices, from Miami to London, Cologne, Tokyo, and Melbourne. Grown in the Western Hemisphere, supported worldwide.

What the Acquisition Does Not Include: The Limeira Clarification

One point prevents confusion later. The refinery in Limeira (São Paulo) was not part of this acquisition. It now operates as Indústrias Xhara, under APAR Holdings management. Only the Pará operations — the plantation and forest reserve, the six Tailândia extraction plants, and the Belém refinery — carry the Agropalma name into the Daabon Group. If you encounter Limeira referenced in older Agropalma materials, it sits outside this deal.

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Sources

The following sources were used to verify the factual claims in this article.

• Daabon press release — “Daabon completes Agropalma acquisition and enters the Brazilian market.” Primary source for the completion date (June 17, 2026), agreement date (March 3, 2026), preservation of the Agropalma brand, the Giancarlo Dávila and André Gasparini statements, the Limeira / Indústrias Xhara / APAR exclusion, and the community and continuity commitments.
• Agropalma — About Us — agropalma.com.br. Source for the footprint figures: 107,000 hectares of land, 39,000 hectares of planted palm, and 64,000 hectares of protected forest reserve.
• Daabon USA — About — daabonusa.com/about. Source for the family ownership since 1914, the Davila Abondano family, and the certification record.
• USDA Organic — USDA Agricultural Marketing Service. Reference for the USDA Organic certification (Daabon first certified 1992).
• Fair Trade USA — fairtradecertified.org. Reference for the Fair Trade USA certification (2016).
• Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) — rspo.org. Reference for RSPO certification (2017).
• Regenerative Organic Alliance — regenorganic.org. Reference for Gold-level Regenerative Organic Certified (ROC™), which Daabon achieved in 2023 as a first in palm oil worldwide.
• FSSC 22000 — fssc.com. Reference for the FSSC 22000 food-safety management certification held by the Agropalma operations.
• EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) — European Commission. Reference for the EUDR traceability and deforestation-free requirements.
• Trade press coverage — the acquisition was reported by outlets including Innovations Food, Food & Drink Technology, Food Manufacture, The Grocer, and The AgriBiz. These corroborated the transaction details and the “largest producer in the Americas” framing.