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APC Opens South East Asia’s Largest Agarwood Processing Factory in Malaysia

Asia Plantation Capital is pleased to reveal the opening of its brand-new, purpose-built Agarwood (gaharu) factory and research study centre, situated in Johor, Malaysia.

A simple 20 minutes drive from the Causeway connect to Singapore, the town of Seri Alam is now host to the cutting-edge center that integrates an Oud oil distillery, a wood chip processing centre, and a scent stick factory. Likewise positioned within the complex is a visitor centre, in addition to a wholesale factory store equipped with the ever-growing variety of Agarwood items produced by Asia Plantation Capital (APC).

Access to the business’s plantations in Thailand, India and Myanmar were crucial elements, as well as the business’s continuous factory development in Shenzhen, China. Prepared Oud factories opening in the Middle East situated in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates and Jeddah in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are being established by the business over the next 18 months.

The center is likewise tactically and easily situated in close distance to Singapore– a nation presently ranked as one of Asia’s greatest Agarwood import and export centres– with more than US$ 1.2 billion in approximated trade per year (according to main reports). This provides APC with a leading one-upmanship in regards to its access to a substantial market on its really ‘doorstep.’ This is a more vital element of the planning and place of all the groups factories with China, Northern Asia and the Middle East in between them making up a considerable bulk of present world sell Agarwood items.

The factory has actually been geared up with the current heat exchange steam purification systems utilizing cleansed water, and a clean energy solar energy system is being set up to make sure optimal financial performance. Sustainable, eco-friendly energy systems are made use of throughout.

As part of a forward supply contract with China’s biggest merchant of scent sticks, a 300 tonne per year assembly line is likewise being set up, and this will certainly broaden in due course to 600 tonnes per year, to include the business’s other places. The center likewise houses a lab for fragrances and vital oils, APC inoculation systems production, and MSDS analysis systems.

“We are extremely thrilled to lastly have the ability to take the covers off our cutting-edge Agarwood factory,” stated Steve Watts, CEO of Asia Plantation Capital Berhad, in Kuala Lumpur. “We have actually invested numerous years evaluating the very best all round strategic place, and are happy to reveal this growth in Malaysia. It’s an outcome of the nation’s steady company environment and forward believing forestry and plantation departments at governmental level, that have actually led us to choose Malaysia and Johor for this strategic factory growth.”.

This is part of an Asia-wide strategic factory and production growth, with a purification factory joint endeavor in China with Hua Lin Group– China’s biggest producer of Agarwood items – as well as strategic development in Thailand into wood chip production and incense production and prepared factories in the Middle East. These systems are not just being made use of by the group to broaden our market share, however is likewise being provided to smaller sized growers and farmers throughout Asia, to aid them in the growing and end processing of Agarwood into an important earnings. As providing systems and understanding, we are providing repaired ‘purchase backs’ on items made solely from our systems.

Watts went on to state, “The Agarwood plantation market, as we understand, is big and is continuing to grow quickly. The customer market is growing and progressing at a fast rate, and customers are looking for items of regularly high quality with all the pertinent seals of sustainability, purity and credibility.

Watts concluded, “Our items now come solely with their own individual accreditations– consisting of those from CITES– together with EU Product Approvals, Product Safety Data Sheets, IFRA, Certificate of Origin, FDA approval, MSDS analyses, and Shariah Compliant status. Our items, in certain our oils and wood chips, are likewise separately graded by professionals in the field at Thailand’s Prince of Songkla University. By tactically running and having cutting-edge, eco-friendly mega factories, sustained by our own plantations and other smaller sized growers, we are now able to provide completion items that the marketplace really requires, in regards to rate, quality and consistency.”.

The factory is open and functional for company, with brand-new assembly line being commissioned in the coming months. The visitor centre will certainly be opening in April 2015, in addition to a wholesale factory store and Agarwood item screen library.

Asia Plantation Capital’s Fulfill Shariah Compliance Requirements

“As part of Asia Plantation Capital’s objective to regard regional culture and incorporate into the marketplaces we are running in, acquiring this approval for Shariah compliance of our items has actually been extremely important for us,” stated Mr. Steve Watts, CEO, Asia Plantation Capital, and Malaysia. “This offers our clients right here in Malaysia and from around the Islamic world, self-confidence that they are not just purchasing a sound item, however the guarantee that it is socially accountable and completely in accordance with their beliefs. With increasingly more individuals in this area and the Middle East wanting to alternative and sustainable financial investments that they can rely on and be associated with, this is a strong statement of Asia Plantation Capital’s intent to fulfill their requirements and our dedication to being socially accountable in every market,” continued Mr. Watts.

Asia Plantation Capital Berhad revealed the achievement of Shariah compliance approval for its items by the IBFIM, previously referred to as the Islamic Banking and Finance Institute Malaysia, the advisory body for Shariah compliance on all matters referring to Islamic banking in Malaysia.

Designated to the Worldwide Scientific Advisory Board is Partner Teacher Yumi Zuhanis Has-Yun Hashim, FIBMS, and International Islamic University Malaysia. Asia Plantation Capital has actually signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with the university to help in the Teacher’s research studies into using Agarwood, Oud Oil and specifically in the locations of cancer research study which are currently showing extremely effective.

Internationally acknowledged in the Islamic world as a leader in this field, IBFIM is signed up and certified by the Securities Commission of Malaysia to offer Shariah regulative structures and guidance, and its regulative board is comprised from a few of the leading banks in Malaysia. IBFIM’s approval hence clears the method for Asia Plantation Capital’s items to be marketed and offered in Malaysia and the worldwide markets as Islamic items that fulfills all requirements as set out under the laws of Islam.

Asia Plantation Capital’s continued strong development in Malaysia has actually likewise seen the visit of Dr. Kodi Isparan Kandasamy, Senior citizen Vice President (AgBiotech), Malaysian Biotechnology Corporation as a Non-Executive Board Director of Asia Plantation Capital Berhad. Simultaneous with this consultation, Dr. Kodi has actually likewise been designated to Asia Plantation Capital’s International Scientific Board of advisers.

“These visits into our Board-of-Directors and Global Scientific Board of advisers shows our ongoing belief that Malaysia is and will certainly remain to be an essential market for our company. These specialists in their particular fields will certainly contribute profoundly to our company, research study and capability to run effectively in Malaysia. I am quite anticipating working carefully with them to attain more for our customers in Malaysia and worldwide,” included Mr. Watts.

Asia Plantation Capital are hosting a series of occasions beginning on the 21st February at The Address Hotel at the Dubai Shopping mall to discuss their sustainable Oudh plantations’ and display their Oud Oil and items. The Address Hotel is likewise the place where their retail partner Fragrance Du Bois.

Fragrance Du Bois Brings World Renown Xerjoff to Southeast Asia for the First Time

“We are delighted to be in Singapore to display our finest and unique fragrances under Fragrance Du Bois,” stated Sergio Momo, Xerjoff’s Founder and Creative Director. “I think Fragrance Du Bois shares crucial concepts with Xerjoff in the universe of creative perfumery.

“It brings us terrific enjoyment to be the very first (and just) scent home in Southeast Asia, to host and partner with the world well-known Xerjoff,” stated Nicola Parker, Brand Director of Fragrance Du Bois. Xerjoff will certainly be offered in all our flagship stores, outlets and scent lounges around the word in the coming weeks. This collaboration with Xerjoff,” Parker concluded, “will certainly additionally boost that experience.

At the heart of the Xerjoff brand and all of its developments, is a mix of standard perfumery (going back centuries), and contemporary, handmade bottles. Sergio Momo’s motivation is stemmed from his Italian roots, and his commitment to a time-honoured craft has actually caused the formula of a few of the most initial and unforgettable scents presently on the marketplace. Momo’s compassion and understanding of the natural world has actually likewise played a part in the general visual, with a mix of semi-precious and valuable hand cut stones, quartz, Murano glass, wood, brass, gold, leather and bronze, taking functions in the succession of work of arts.

Likewise providing some weight to the valuable and uncommon masterpieces that catch these memorable scents, are the lots of years of research study and advancement in the art of perfumery, together with the partnerships with distinguished Italian artists. International and Italian ‘Noses’, carvers and painters – in addition to jewellery designers, glassblowers, diamond cutters and wood engravers – interact to distil, mix and package the valuable essences produced in Grasse (South of France), Spain and Italy.

Xerjoff’s collection – redolent of history and custom, and influenced by aspects and occasions as varied as Siberian meteorite showers and the ancient Arabian art of perfumery — makes sure to consist of a fragrance that will certainly delight and promote the senses of even the most seasoned scent connoisseur..
Working along parallel lines with Fragrance Du Bois, Xerjoff has actually committed 2 exceptional collections to the enigmatic and magical Oud oil – both provided in perfectly crafted crystal bottles. Sourced from Laos, Indonesia, Thailand, India and Cambodia, the Oud-inspired productions are recording the creativities of scent lovers worldwide.

A choice of Xerjoff’s high-end scents will certainly be readily available at the Fragrance Du Bois flagship shop in Singapore from today. They will certainly likewise be readily available in Du Bois’ 2nd flagship shop in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, within a matter of weeks.
Xerjoff in Southeast Asia is solely given you by Fragrance Du Bois, and costs begin with SGD 225.