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.