All of the products Alnor sells are renewable, biodegradable and non-hazardous.
Sailors aboard Vasco da Gama's ships gave the coconut its name, calling it Coco, after the Portuguese word for grimacing face or hobgoblin. The word nut was added when it first came to England.
The palm tree was first introduced into Malaysia in 1875 but was only commercially planted there in Selangor in 1917.
In 1935, Henry Ford used parts of soybeans to make gearshift knobs, window trim, door handles and accelerator parts in his vehicles.
Some vegetable oils are derived from the fruits of the plant, some from the seeds, and others from the leaves or roots.
The Egyptians used castor oil for their lamps and ingested it with beer as a purgative, a use that has prevailed to modern times, but without the beer.
Elevators in the Statue of Liberty use a soybean based hydraulic fluid.
Safflower is one of oldest known crops, with traces of the seed having been found in King Tut's tomb.
Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, is said to have used castor oil to brighten her eyes.
Soybeans were first cultivated in China and didn’t arrive in the USA until 1804, with the first crop being grown in 1829.
As early as 1500 BC, the Incans of Peru used peanuts as sacrificial offerings and entombed them with their mummies to aid in the spirit life.
Alnor was founded in 1968 by Alexander Klayman.
Safflower is grown in more than 60 countries worldwide.
Alnor has 14 stocking locations from coast to coast across the USA.
Corn was domesticated 10,000 years ago in Mexico.
Experiments with using sunflower oil as a salad dressing exist as early as 1768.
"Vegetable oil" is the name usually given to any oil product derived from a plant of any description, be it fruit or vegetable.
Tom Miller pushed a peanut to the top of Pikes Peak (14,100 feet) using his nose. It took 4 days 23 hours 47 minutes and 3 seconds.
Sunflowers originated in the US, but there are now 60 different kinds of sunflowers growing in multiple countries around the world today.
By 2011, Alnor topped 120 million lbs in annual sales volume.
During WWII, all ammunition was coated with tung oil.
Tung oil was mixed in the mortar that made the Great Wall of China.
Castor oil was the preferred lubricant for rotary engine warplanes during WWI.
Traces of palm oil have been found in a 500 year old Egyptian tomb in the city of Abydos.