Overtime mankind had worked hard to create a better life through development, forgetting the effects it leaves on their environment - from the air that they breathe, to the water that is source of all life and to the ozone layer that protects the earth. As industrialization escalates so does the pollution in equal proportion, and there may not be much left for the children of tomorrow.

It is our obligation to keep the earth as natural, as clean as it is possible, as a legacy for the future.

As a resource industrialist, we share the passion to minimize impact on the environment caused by the conventional palm oil industry. We have embraced a paradigm shift in the palm industry by formulating a comprehensive bio-integration programme.

Bio-integration has 2 distinct advantages. Firstly, it solves wastes problem of the palm industry, namely empty fruit bunches (EFB) and palm oil mill effluent (POME). Secondly, it provides new revenue sources to the palm industry. Bio-integration is a new dimension, aptly described as 'lateral integration' to the palm industry. It consumes wastes and turns them into valuable products, such as electricity, industrial steam and paper. It is about realization of high economic value from wastes or industrial residues which have negligible economic value.

Our bio-integration programme consists of two phases. Phase 1 comprises two components, namely the palm oil mill and biomass power. We have successfully completed Phase 1 by assimilating biomass power with our Kunak Palm Oil Mill. Currently, we are developing Phase 2 of the bio-integration project which is the establishment of palm pulp and paper and biogas power.