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Asia Plantation Capital granted ‘Best Forestry Asset Management Team’ award for 2014

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The judges identified Asia Plantation Capital’s contribution to the environment, and acknowledged the business’s devoted and reliable concentrate on sustainability, while at the same time providing outstanding outcomes as a company.

In revealing the award, Capital Finance International stated, “Our winner, Asia Plantation Capital, has jobs throughout 4 possessions and continents possessed or under management that are anticipated to surpass US$ 1 billion in the not too long run. Asia Plantation Capital works sensitively with regional neighborhoods to supply much required financial investment, in addition to cultural and social assistance, in order to dissuade logging and prohibited logging activities. We enjoy to keep in mind that residents used by Asia Plantation Capital are extremely well dealt with and supplied with significant chances to enhance their financial potential customers in manner ins which safeguard and nurture the environments where they live.”.

Developed formally in 2008 (although running independently because 2002) the group now has plantation and farming tasks on 4 continents, with functional jobs at numerous phases in Thailand, Malaysia, China, Laos, India, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Vietnam, North America and Europe.

Part of the Asia Plantation Capital Group, Asia Plantation Capital (APC) likewise works as plantation and farming supervisors and consultants to a number of Private Equity Funds that concentrate on the forestry, farming, and renewable resource financial investment sectors. To this day, in excess of US$ 600 million worth of plantations and biological possessions are presently had and/or under management on behalf of personal customers, and this is anticipated to increase over the next years, with a near horizon forecast of US$ 1 billion.

At the heart of Asia Plantation Capital’s objective declaration is the objective to end up being the world’s leading operator of sustainably handled forestry and farming plantations. These operations vary from job examination and plantation management, through to forestry item distribution. APC highly relates to business duty as not merely having to do with protecting earnings for financiers and investors, however likewise about contributing favorably to society and the environment.

“We are unbelievably happy that Asia Plantation Capital has actually gotten this award,” stated Mr Barry Rawlinson, Chief Executive Officer, Asia Plantation Capital Asia Pacific. “Sustainability was one of principles at the leading edge of our minds when we began the business, and although there have actually been difficulties along the method, we have actually stuck, steadfastly, to our objective and the values of sustainable practices and constructing up the neighborhoods that we are part of.

From the start to the end of the procedure, APC takes certain steps when obtaining plantations, and thoroughly develops each succeeding phase to make sure sustainability. At each stage– from preliminary plantation stock and land choice, to the inoculation strategies and end processing– systems have actually undergone strenuous clinical analysis and evaluation.

The business is dedicated to research study and advancement, and is continuously establishing and improving innovations and strategies to broaden the development of the Aquilaria tree, bamboo, teak and other agroforestry jobs in an eco-friendly way. To accomplish this, Asia Plantation Capital has actually developed a worldwide Board of Scientific Research Advisors, consisted of specialists in the field, and amassed from leading universities.

“We are continuously taking a look at methods to enhance and upgrade our practices with research study from our worldwide Board of Scientific Research Advisors, while constantly accepting brand-new market advancements and requirements,” stated Mr Rawlinson. “Forestry and agriculture management has a instant and really direct influence on the world where we live, and we are constantly cognisant of the important function we play in guaranteeing the sustainability of the environment, and society as a whole.”.

The outcomes of this research study have actually made Asia Plantation Capital the biggest business grower of Aquilaria trees in Southeast Asia, from which APC produces 100 % pure, natural, and sustainable Oud oils for the worldwide scent market, in addition to the medical and incense markets.

All Aquilaria trees are collected through a procedure that guarantees sustainability, and offered to the worldwide market with CITES accreditation, to show that the crop is grown, gathered and transferred in a sustainable and ethical way. The business perseveres in promoting making use of qualified wood and accredited wood items as the very best method which to avoid logging, secure biodiversity and fight poverty in the jungle areas.

In Hong Kong, the previously plentiful Aquilaria tree (which in part provided the island its name, ‘Fragrant Harbour’), has actually nearly been eliminated as a types, with the exception of a little farm on the island. Asia Plantation Capital is presently working carefully with the stated farmer, to reestablish the tree to the island in higher numbers, and to guarantee that it is grown and gathered in a sustainable way. It is hoped that in due course, the tree will certainly as soon as again end up being a substantial part of the area’s vegetation.

Another of Asia Plantation Capital’s underlying core company concepts is the commitment to working carefully with neighborhoods, taking them far from logging and the unlawful logging activities that were formerly viewed as a primary income source in some areas of Asia. Sustainability is more than simply keeping things green; it’s likewise about buying the neighborhood.

Regional labour is used in all APC’s plantations, and paid considerably above the yearly typical wage in all the nations where they run. Workers work 8-hour days, and delight in enough pause, and in Sri Lanka (for instance), personnel and their households are supplied with complimentary land on which to grow their own crops. Asia Plantation Capital likewise funds staff members in the purchase of their own houses, or in the updating of their existing cottage.

A regulated system of intercropping on plantations is utilized, making sure that trees are offered with cover and security throughout the early years, by the crops that are grown in between them. All surplus food crops are offered in the regional markets, offering additional earnings for plantation employees.

Asia Plantation Capital likewise actively takes part in developing the neighborhoods where it runs, by supporting regional education with the arrangement of instructional products, and by buying cultural facilities and other vital tasks developed to improve the lifestyle in those neighborhoods.

Asia Plantation Capital (APC) is the owner and operator of a varied variety of business plantation and farming companies throughout the Asia-Pacific area and around the world, and is part of the Asia Plantation Capital Group of associated business. Developed formally in 2008 (although running independently because 2002) the group now has plantation and farming jobs on 4 continents, with functional jobs at numerous phases in Thailand, Malaysia, China, Laos, India, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Vietnam, North America and Europe.

Promoting using licensed and sustainable wood is the very best method of avoiding logging, safeguarding biodiversity, and fighting poverty in the tropical jungle areas. For the yacht sector (a significant user of teak) which pursues quality and which is currently associated with ecological efforts, this is likewise a method of guaranteeing that no wood from prohibited logging is made use of.

Asia Plantation Capital Geared Up To Develop the Agarwood Industry in Malaysia

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Speaking at the biotechnology conference ‘Bio Johor 2014’, Dr Panamas Chetpattananondh (a Partner Teacher from the Prince Songkla University in Thailand, and Head of the Scientific Board of advisers at Asia Plantation Capital) provided a plenary paper on the capacity for Agarwood in Malaysia. Specific significance was offered to the possibilities of using the innovative innovations established by Asia Plantation Capital, and the chances that might be produced in so doing.

With the value of Oud oil (that which originates from the specifically dealt with wood of the tree), being substantially greater than the value of gold (by an element of 1.5), the sustainable Agarwood market is well developed in Asia, with Asia Plantation Capital blazing a trail. The sustainable plantation business is now actively seeking to bring their innovative plantation systems to Malaysia.

“Gaharu (Agarwood) is not brand-new to the area and we see lots of chances for its development in Malaysia. As a leading business in plantation management, we guarantee that our agarwood is gathered fairly and sustainably,” stated Steve Watts – Chief Executive Officer of Asia Plantation Capital Berhad – speaking at the Johor Biotech Conference. “Not just that,” he continued, “however we are among the few plantation business to have our items accredited by CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) which allows us to trade lawfully in Agarwood.”.

Asia Plantation Capital is the major sponsor of the Bio Johor 2014 Biotechnology Conference and Exhibition. APC took pleasure in the very same advantage in 2013 at the very first International Scientific Symposium on Agarwood (ISSA) kept in Malaysia, which was arranged by Universiti Putra Malaysia.

Agarwood (or Gaharu, as it is more typically understood in Malaysia and Indonesia), originates from the Aquilaria tree – a types belonging to Southeast Asian nations such as Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Indonesia. Exactly what makes Agarwood so extremely demanded is the rarity of the aromatic resin included within. It is produced just when the tree is impacted by a specific fungi (or, when it come to trees handled by Asia Plantation Capital, when dealt with in a certain method).

Oud oil and Oud wood chips have actually been an essential part of Middle Eastern cultures for centuries, where it is not just made use of in scents, however likewise in the wood chips burned in houses as incense. In China, Agarwood sculptures prevail domestic artefacts, and using bracelets made from Agarwood beads is quick ending up being a popular trend, with current record rates at auction having actually been accomplished in China for Agarwood pieces.

Internationally, Oud is now a significant active ingredient in the fragrance and cosmetic market, and is utilized by virtually all of the world’s leading, luxury scent brands. Asia Plantation Capital’s partner business, Fragrance Du Bois, just recently had among its fragrances shortlisted as a leading 10 finalist in the Art and Olfaction Awards (the scent market event kept in Los Angeles, USA) pairing up with and exceeding rivals from around the globe.

The health advantages of Agarwood have actually been well recorded, and have actually been a pillar of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) for centuries. Agarwood is renowned to be advantageous in the treatment of digestion system conditions, the relief of spasms and discomfort, in addition to tightness in the chest, stomach discomfort, throwing up, diarrhoea and asthma.

Current research study has actually revealed that, possibly, Agarwood has much more medical advantages, with the oil having actually been discovered to have sedative impacts, while a part reveals pledge for usage in the advancement of an anti-cancer drug. Antioxidant buildings have actually likewise been discovered in the extract of Agarwood leaves, which might likewise be made use of for the treatment of stomach grievances and skin infections.

She continued, “The sustainable plantation of Agarwood trees might be extremely important to the Malaysian agriculture market. The Asia Plantation Capital Scientific Advisory Board is now working with academics throughout Asia to establish and produce pharmaceuticals from Agarwood for larger usage in conventional medication.

All types of the Aquilaria tree are categorized under CITES as jeopardized types – due to prohibited and substantial gathering and logging for Oud oil. Asia Plantation Capital’s Oud oil and woodchip items are all lawfully accredited under the CITES arrangement, making sure that the strictest legal and ethical requirements are supported in the planting, gathering and growing of Agarwood and Oud oil.

Moving on, Asia Plantation Capital has strategies to check out additional chances by obtaining plantations (or partnering existing plantation owners) to establish Agarwood in Malaysia. Over the last 10 years, Asia Plantation Capital has actually established sophisticated exclusive inoculation systems that have actually been carried out in Thailand, Cambodia and India (with shown outcomes) along with a brand-new, trademarked system which, over a longer timespan, will certainly promote resin production throughout the whole tree.

About Asia Plantation Capital.

Asia Plantation Capital is an owner and operator of a varied variety of office plantation and farming companies throughout the Asia-Pacific area, and internationally, is part of the Asia Plantation Capital Group of associated business. Developed formally in 2008 (although running independently because 2002) the group now has plantation and farming tasks on 4 continents with functional jobs at different phases in Thailand, Malaysia, China, Laos, India, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Mozambique, The Gambia, North America and Europe.

Promoting using qualified wood is the very best method of avoiding logging, consequently securing biodiversity and fighting poverty in the tropical jungle areas. For the yacht sector, which pursues quality and which is currently associated with ecological efforts, this is likewise a method of making sure that no wood from prohibited logging is utilized.

About Fragrance Du Bois.

Fragrance Du Bois is a specific niche luxury fragrance residence working carefully with sustainable plantations inAsia, bringing amazing brand-new 100 % natural Oud oil based scents to special markets worldwide. Sustainably sourcing the finest basic materials around the world, dealing with French perfumers to develop a complete variety of items, as well as offering custom scent services, Fragrance Du Bois is individual luxury with a conscience. With special scent lounges around the world, in Dubai, Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore, Fragrance Du Bois develops just the finest experience in custom perfumery.

Fragrance Du Bois Launches Luxury Boutique at the Starhill Gallery, Kuala Lumpur

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Picking a scent that shows one’s desires and state of minds is a sensory treat. French luxury fragrance residence Fragrance Du Bois is now set to provide that experience to customers in Malaysia, at its freshly introduced flagship shop at the Starhill Gallery in Kuala Lumpur.

The Experience
Fragrance Du Bois will certainly take the person on a trip of discovery — the utmost objective being to source, produce, and make manifest the ideal scent, based upon tastes, feelings and the customer’s self-perception.

“When it pertains to a fragrance, tastes vary from one person to another,” states Nicola Parker, Brand Director of Fragrance Du Bois. “We wish to produce an unique experience for our customers, by including them in the consulting procedure in the development of a scent that they enjoy, which shows their characters. It’s a luxury experience, and one with which our customers now associate us.”.

The Boutique.
Rich, advanced and sophisticated, Fragrance Du Bois’ store is resplendent in black with gold accoutrements. Created to show the atmosphere of a special Parisian perfumery, it is the best place in which to experience the world of luxury scent.

The Collection.
Fragrance Du Bois provides its trademark Shades Du Bois collection of 8 fragrances, each created to show minutes and experiences through the spectrum of state of minds and colours. For the utmost in exclusivity, a totally custom scent can be produced for a customer by one of Du Bois’ coterie of Master Perfumers.

The Oud.
All Du Bois’ scents are developed utilizing 100 % pure, natural Oud oil of the extremely greatest quality — provided solely by Asia Plantation Capital and sourced just from their sustainable plantations. Frequently described as ‘liquid gold,’ Oud is removed from the Aquilaria tree, which is belonging to Southeast Asia, and is likewise understood in this part of the world as Agarwood or Gaharu.
Du Bois’ trademark Oud is a magical and wonderful compound that reacts, virtually actually, to the individual touch. Its natural purity indicates that it will certainly connect a little in a different way with each person, developing, in essence, a distinct scent for every single customer.

Sustainability.
“The chances for Gaharu are ever enhancing, and as a leading business in sustainable plantation management, we guarantee that our harvesting is performed in a sustainable and ethical method,” states Steve Watts, Chief Executive Officer of Fragrance Du Bois Malaysia.
He continues, “All the Oud oil is lawfully sourced, and accredited under the CITES arrangement. This implies that the strictest ecological and ethical requirements are ensured when it concerns the planting, collecting and growing of Agarwood and Oud oil.”.

“We extremely applaud Fragrance Du Bois’ technique of leveraging the wonderful qualities of Oud oil without jeopardizing its values and its social and business duty,” states Guest of Honour, Tan Sri Dr. Francis Yeoh, Managing Director of YTL Power. “We comprehend that it is constantly more difficult to preserve sustainability and ethical values when satisfying the needs of the luxury market. Fragrance Du Bois is setting the requirements that numerous others need to follow.”.

Supporting a Good Cause.
Fragrance Du Bois’ mantra is ‘luxury with a conscience’, and the business, in addition to all its partners, is dedicated to social and business obligation. As an outcome of Fragrance Du Bois’ dedication to making use of just sustainably sourced components, their scents have actually been backed by the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation.
For Oud Amber Intense– a scent developed particularly for Sonia Irvine, creator of the Amber Lounge – 5 % of the earnings from sales goes to the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, and another 5 % goes to the Brain and Spine Foundation. The Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation is one devoted to the security of the environment and was established by His Serene Highness Prince Albert II in 2006.

With the sale of each scent, Fragrance Du Bois and Asia Plantation Capital will certainly grow one Aquilaria tree and one Teak tree, in combination with the Thai Royal Family’s Plant Genetics Programme.

About Fragrance Du Bois.
Fragrance Du Bois is a specific niche luxury fragrance residence working carefully with sustainable plantations in Asia, bringing amazing brand-new 100 % natural Oud oil based scents to special markets worldwide. Sustainably sourcing the finest basic materials around the world, dealing with French perfumers to produce a complete variety of items, as well as offering custom scent services, Fragrance Du Bois is individual luxury with a conscience. With unique scent lounges around the world, in Dubai, Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore, Fragrance Du Bois produces just the finest experience in custom perfumery.
Fragrance Du Bois is referred to as Parfums Du Bois in France and in non-French speaking markets, as Fragrance Du Bois.

About Asia Plantation Capital.
Asia Plantation Capital is an owner and operator of a varied variety of industrial plantation and farming companies throughout the Asia-Pacific area, and internationally, part of the Asia Plantation Capital Group of associated business. Their focus is on varied and multicultural plantation tasks tailored to the domestic and business needs of the nations where they run.

Working carefully with and supporting regional neighborhoods is a hidden core concept of the APC company, supplying cultural and social assistance, in addition to financial investment, to move these neighborhoods far from logging and unlawful logging activities, formerly viewed as a primary income source in some areas of Asia.

Developed formally in 2008, although running independently because 2002, the group now has plantation and farming tasks on 4 continents with functional jobs at different phases in Thailand, Malaysia, China, Laos, India, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Mozambique, The Gambia, North America and Europe.
Promoting using qualified wood is the very best method of avoiding logging, securing biodiversity and fighting poverty in the tropical jungle areas. For the yacht sector, which pursues quality and which is currently associated with ecological efforts, this is likewise a method of making sure that no wood from prohibited logging is made use of.

About Amber Lounge.
Amber Lounge was established by Sonia Irvine, sibling of previous Ferrari F1 star Eddie Irvine, and was introduced at the Monaco Grand Prix in May 2003. The facility was easy: the development of a really VIP celebration that showed the beauty and exclusivity of one of the most prominent sporting occasions in the world.

About the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation.
The Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation works for the defense of the environment and the promo of sustainable advancement. The Foundation supports efforts carried out by personal and public organisations within the fields of research study, technological development and activities, to raise awareness of the social problems at stake.

These 3 sectors are focused in one single environment: the tropical jungles. The ecological repercussions at stake, for that reason, are significant, when we understand that the tropical jungles harbour over 75 % of the earth’s biodiversity which their damage is liable for more than 20 % of greenhouse gas emissions..
As part of its actions to combat versus logging, the Foundation introduced the Wood Forever Pact, to promote making use of wood gathered from sustainably handled forests within the yacht market.
Promoting using qualified wood is the very best method of avoiding logging, securing biodiversity and combating poverty in the tropical jungle areas.

Asia Plantation Capital reveals commercial collaboration in India.

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After visits  by Dharmendra Kumar-the creator of Vanadurgi-to Thailand, and to other nations in South East Asia, to research as well as develop partnerships with various other business agarwood plantations, Asia Plantation Capital is honored that the team havechosen Asia Plantation Capital to function with them on creating shot remedies andtheend-processing of agarwood right into all the different (as well as boosting)items it could offer.During very early July, a group from Asia Plantation Capital’s Specialist Inoculation and also Research Department brought out area tests in India to evaluate the ideal shot systems-based on our encounter in developing a system in Thailand as well as Malaysia which has a 100 % success price in promoting the manufacturing of agarwood material, and also which is 100 % natural; similar to oud oils made in nature. We were bewildered to discover so lots of individuals which discuss our interest for establishing the agarwood sector as well as for using the finest husbandry andocially accountable administration methods to progress this huge plantation market in a comsustainable way.

About Asia Plantation Capital , Asia Plantation Capital is a proprietor as well as driver of a varied array of business plantation and also farming commercials throughout the Asia-Pacific region-and internationally, component of the Asia Plantation Capital Group of linked firms. Developed formally in 2008, although running independently considering that 2002, the team currently has plantation and also farming jobs on 4 continents-with functional jobs at different phases in: Thailand, Malaysia, China, Laos, India, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Mozambique, The Gambia, North America as well as Europe.Promoting the usage of accredited timber is the finest method of stopping logging, securing biodiversity as well as battling hardship in the Tropical Rainforest areas.

Asia Plantation Capital is happy to reveal Stage 1 of a commercial collaboration in India with the nation’s biggest, public market, agarwood plantation group-an area based task, extendingacross the entire of Southern India.

Stage 2 of the partnership will certainly see Asia Plantation Capital and also Vanadurgi working with end-processing options, purification, and also creating customer items which we could collectively market-creating the globe’s biggest, integrated producerandsupplier of agarwood -with the abilityto deal long-term, sustainable products of regular high quality to the international market place.Asia Plantation Capital selects, extremely thoroughly, whomit collaborates with andwith which itshares its technologies.The advantages fort the biggest agarwood plantation team in India-gained byjointly collaborating with Asia Plantation Capital-arethe possibility to produce the biggest, solitary supplierandgrower around the world and to increase the market share for both firms. This offers both business the chance to profit from joint study as well as innovations; helping to further secure the future market and also sustainable products of agarwood, for both business and also the market.

The Asia Plantation Capital group will certainly currently be functioning carefully with Vanadurgi to check and also examine our vaccination processes. All nations (or even areas) have varying weather and also biodiversity conditions-all which have a significant impact on the efficiency of these systems-and it is important that we tailor and also study our techniques to provide the maximum return as well as high quality of completion oud that is generated in all the areas.

The firm has actually expanded, andhasnow developed over 5,000 farmer plantations throughout South India; accountancy forabout 99 % of agarwood trees presently in South India. In the prime plantation area at Sringeri, in Karnataka, the business has actually developed an old-model plantation system, a farming study terminal, an artificial-inoculation system, warehousing as well as a packaging as well as forwarding center.

Regarding Vanadurgi

The firm has actually developed over 5,000 agarwood plantations and also is arising as one of the globe’s biggest agarwood plantation firms. We prepare to satisfy that objective with a combo of encounter and also collaborations with leading specialists from around the world.The business has actually developed over 5,000 plantations throughout South India, accounting to concerning 99 % of trees presently in South India. In the prime plantation area at Sringeri in Karnataka, the business has actually developed an aged version plantation, a farming research study terminal, a fabricated inoculum increasing system, warehousing, as well as a packaging and also forwarding center.