Introduction Palm oil milling process includes seven main processes which are fresh fruit bunches reception, sterilization, threshing, digestion, mashing and pressing, crude oil clarification and palm kernel recovery which have resulted in tremendous by-products. The available by-products, in various forms or types, are palm oil mill effluent, empty fruit bunches, palm oil mill sludge, decanter cake, palm kernel shells and palm-pressed mesocarp fibres 1. A number of approaches to process the substantial amounts of palm oil mill by-products into value-added products have been implemented and reported, such as mechanical 2 4 and thermo-chemical 5 7 conversion methods. Previous studies showed that many of these materials can be utilized to produce organic fertilizers 8 , fuels 9 , animal feeds 10 , biodegradable plastics 11 , methane 12 , paper and pulp 13 , etc. Mesocarp fibre is one such by-product generated from a