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
Sabah
Proposed Intergrated Pulp & Paper Mill at Kunak, Tawau, Sabah, Malaysia
Eko Pulp & Paper Sdn Bhd and Chemsain Konsultant Sdn Bhd
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 :
1. 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
2. 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.
3. 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
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.
Two Indian firms Ballarpur Industries and Punj Llyoyd Ltd had already
invested in Sabah.
1) Ballarpur Industries is Sabah sole pulp and paper manufacturer Sabah Forest
Industries
2) Punj Lloyd was involved in building the Kimanis-Bintulu pipeline.
About 1,000 Indian nationals working on the pipeline project engineers as well
as (general) workers.
The Star Online > Nation
Monday November 24, 2008
Tawau mill to produce quality paper from oil palm bunches
By ROYCE CHEAH
PETALING JAYA: The world’s first oil palm-based pulp and paper mill is expected
to start operations in Tawau by the third quarter of next year.
Using technology researched by the Forest Research Institute of Malaysia (FRIM),
the mill will produce pulp and paper from empty fruit bunches, oil palm bunches
where the fruits have been removed.
FRIM director-general Datuk Dr Abd Latif Mohmod said the mill would be capable
of producing high quality A4 paper for export and local use. The paper would be
produced by a private company.
Dr Abd Latif said it was an industry with a potential earnings of RM2bil
annually.
“It will not only allow us to save hardwood trees from being cut down for paper
but also on foreign exchange as Malaysia imports a lot of its paper from
overseas.
“It is a perfect example of waste to wealth,” he said in an interview.
It is understood that five tonnes of empty fruit bunches would produce one tonne
of pulp. Some 30 million tonnes of empty fruit bunches are generated annually.
Dr Abd Latif said oil millers would be paid RM30 per tonne for the bunches
whereas the current market rate of pulp is between US$600 (RM2,160) and US$700
(RM2,520).
FRIM forest products division senior director Dr Mohd Nor Mohd Yusoff said the
Government had invested about RM35mil for the project that was supposed to have
taken off in 2005.
“There were some technical delays but now everything has been sorted out. The
factory will have all operations under one roof — from shredding the empty fruit
bunches, pulping and producing paper,” he said.
Dr Abd Latif said this particular project was one example of the potential
available in commercialising FRIM’s research.
He has invited stakeholders and clients to come to FRIM so they could learn
about its research findings during a Technology Transfer Forum on Nov 25 and 26.
Check http://www.frim.gov.my/ for further details on the forum.
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RSPO certified plantation companies
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from RSPO.
- United Plantations Bhd (Malaysia)
- Kulim Bhd (Malaysia)
- Sime Darby Bhd (Malaysia)
- Perlis Plantations Bhd (Malaysia)
- IOI Corp Bhd (Malaysia)
- Kuala Lumpur Kepong Bhd (Malaysia)
- PT Musim Mas (Indonesia)
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Sarawak Will Have Biggest Oil Palm Area Under Felcra By 2010
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25/05/2009 (Bernama), Kuching - Felcra will develop another 11,000 hectares of
land in Sarawak for oil palm cultivation by 2010, its chairman Datuk Tajuddin
Abdul Rahman said here today.
With the completion of the project, he said, Felcra Berhad would have developed
55,000ha for oil palm, the biggest for Felcra as this made up 36 per cent of the
total area in the country developed by the agency for oil palm, compared to
52,000ha in Pahang currently.
"We see that Sarawak still has a lot of land banks with the potential of being
developed into oil palm plantations compared to the peninsula, and this will
also help the government develop its (Sarawak) rural areas," he said after
attending a briefing at Felcra's Sarawak office.
Tajuddin said 44,000ha of land in Sarawak had so far been developed by Felcra,
out of which 22,000ha had started producing.
He said the three new areas to have agropolitan projects would be Batang Sadong,
Batang Lupar and Pulau Beruit, involving 6,534ha and 3,700 participants
altogether.
Besides that, he added, Felcra would also set up two people's estates, involving
4,571ha, this year.
"Felcra's current focus is on economic, physical and human capital development
as part of efforts to overcome the effects of the global economic slowdown."
Felcra now has some 94,000 project participants, including 5,544 in Sarawak,
with accumulated dividends given out amounting to RM3.5 billion of which RM72
million went to the participants in Sarawak.
Tajuddin said Felcra was also working at attracting more participants and
encouraging their family members to work in the oil palm estates developed by
Felcra so as to reduce the country's dependence on foreign labour for work, such
as harvesting the oil palm fruits.
He said Felcra was now hiring 20,000 people for plantation work, including 8,000
foreigners whom it aimed to reduce to 4,000.
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