Société des Huiles et Dérivés S.A.L. (SHD)

SHD was founded in Beirut in 1967 and is an oilseed extraction plant and refinery on the Lebanese coast, operating its own Mediterranean port built in 1982. The company describes itself as a regional provider of vegetable oil and animal feed ingredients. The company states that in 2016 it expanded capacity to 1,000 tons of soybean and 250 tons of vegetable oil per day, that it has storage for 100,000 tons of grains and meal and 20,000 tons of liquids, and that it sources beans from the USA, Brazil and Argentina and runs its own quality-control laboratory. It produces refined sunflower oil, refined and crude degummed soybean oil and high-protein soybean meal, sold in bulk locally or exported to the Levant, the Arabian Gulf and Mediterranean countries. Since 2019 it has supplied the HORECA and retail markets under its Bellvie brand.