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World's First Oil Palm-Based PulpPaper Mill in  Kunak, Malaysia

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PULP AND PAPER MILL AT KM 56 , TAWAU - KUNAK ROAD , TAWAU , SABAH, MALAYSIA

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NEGERI    

PROJEK

PEMAJU

PERUNDING

Sabah

 

Proposed Intergrated Pulp & Paper Mill at Kunak, Tawau, Sabah, Malaysia

 

Eko Pulp & Paper Sdn Bhd

 

 Chemsain Konsultant Sdn Bhd

 

Location : Kunak Town, Tawau Region in Sabah

Memorandum of Understanding

A Memorandum of Understanding signing between the Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM) and Borneo Advance Pulp and Paper Sdn. Bhd. for the setting up of the world's first oil palm-based pulp and paper mill in  Sabah was witnessed by Minister of Primary Industries, Dato' Seri Dr. Lim Keng Yaik on 30 March 2003

Investors :

Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM)
Director-General Dato' Dr. Abdul Razak Mohd. Ali
FRIM will provide the scientific and technical know-how to Borneo Advance
Borneo Advance Pulp and Paper Sdn. Bhd.
Chairman Dato' Jaswant Singh Kler.
responsible for pulp production, its co-products and other commercial aspects of the business
(joint-venture between TSH Resources Bhd and Lembaga Tabung Haji)

TSH biomass project is in Tawau, Sabah, which generates 14MW. The second plant in Ipoh generate between 8MW and 8.5MW, of which TSH will use 4MW and sell the remaining MW output to Tenaga.
 
Malaysian Government
Government investing an additional RM20 million in this project.

The Project

Cost : RM40 million               Capacity : 25,000 tones of pulp a year

Production Technology :

FRIM and Borneo Advance will jointly develop a new pulping method using empty fruit bunches (EFB). The method will use caustics soda technology, developed by FRIM since 1998, to convert EFB into pulp and its co-products.
The Production Plant

The integrated plant will consist of :
1) the pulp plant
2)  biomass co-generation plant
3)  palm oil mill effluent energy plant
4) an oil palm mill.

The plant is designed to use industrial wastes from the palm oil industry such as EFB and palm oil effluent to produce useful resources such as pulp, electricity and industrial steam.

Palm Oil EFB Fibre is a raw materials similar to wood base fibre which can be used to produce paper pulp, MDF board & particle board

Glossary :

 EFB - Empty Fruit Bunches
CMC-Carboxymethylcellulose

 

 

Resource :

Malaysia each year has 30 million tones of EFB from 351 oil palm mills throughout the country.

Economy impact : US$1.5 billion a year

Five tones of EFB could produce a tone of pulp. Assuming that 50% of EFB is available for pulp production, Malaysia has the potential to produce three million tones of pulp per year from EFB alone.

Based on the current pulp price of around US$500 a tone, the value produced could be around US$1.5 billion a year.
Industry Progress in Malaysia general :

8 Palm Oil millers now have shredding machine to turn and digest EFB into pulp.

4 companies in Malaysia now are capable of manufacturing the shredding machines to extract the fibers from the EFB for the production of pulp

19 paper and paper products manufacturing companies in Malaysia, including an integrated pulp and paper mill, which is Sabah Forest Industries.

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