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Asia Plantation Capital Thailand Reports Brand New High Numbers At General Meeting

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Asia Plantation Capital Thailand hosted a record variety of more than 300 Thailand-based plantation owners and stakeholders at its current Thai Yearly General Fulfilling (AGM), kept in Bangkok on the 11th of October 2014..

Reporting a brand-new high of US$ 53.5 million in earnings in the 2013 fiscal year, and going beyond US$ 6 million in payments for the very first time, updates were likewise provided on the ongoing growth and acquisition of plantations in Thailand, in addition to significant growth into Malaysia and other essential Asian nations.

Other highlights consisted of the intro of brand-new methods and innovations created to enhance the production of Agarwood and Oud – in addition to other final product from its agroforestry, teak and bamboo tasks. This is a bulk of the business’s continuous dedication to research study and advancement throughout all its core plantation sectors.

The business likewise revealed the official facility of its own Scientific Advisory Board, comprised of leading clinical consultants and academics from the throughout the Asia Pacific area, all whom have tested and useful experience in the sectors where the business runs.

Thailand-based Scientific Advisory Board member, Associate Professor Dr Pakamas Chetpattananondh – from the Prince of Songkla University – upgraded the reader on the present advancements within APC’s research study programs. This consisted of the inoculation and processing of Agarwood and Oud, in addition to the current discoveries for possible usages. These have a direct influence on appreciating Oud, with commensurate boosts in the business’s market value.

Likewise upgraded were the business’s additional advancements on building products from brand-new innovations based around bamboo; consisting of the business’s own strengthened concrete structure systems and crafted building boards. On a technical basis, these have actually both been revealed to exceed other present systems in usage, and are both environment-friendly and expense effective.

The AGM visited agents from associate business (such as EcoTech Asia and Fragrance Du Bois) notifying guests of the continuous chances that they imagine through their collaborations with Asia Plantation Capital..
EcoTech will certainly be presenting eco-friendly items to the marketplace in the near future. These will certainly consist of bamboo bikes, bamboo flooring, crafted building items, as well as bamboo baggage. To display these systems, the business is currently deploying the innovations in the building of its own rental properties in Thailand’s Royal Beach Resort in Hua Hin.

Brand Director for Fragrance Du Bois, Nicola Parker, indicated the possibility of a US$ 36 billion international scent market in 2018 (as reported by GIA – Global Industry Analysts), up from an anticipated US$ 33billion in 2015. This bodes exceptionally well in regards to the possible need for Oud-based Fragrances.

On the back of this need, the Fragrance Du Bois brand is now taken part in a program of opening brand-new stores and outlets in essential markets around the globe — under its ownership, however in association with essential strategic partners. Fragrance Du Bois has actually likewise engaged the services of worldwide law practice K and L Gates, to recommend the business on a possible AIM listing on the London Stock Exchange for the fast-growing sustainable luxury brand. K and L Gates is a leading IPO legal professional, and has a specifically high level of experience with business based in Asia.

With equivalent value provided to business activities, there were likewise updates en routes where APC has actually engaged the regional neighborhoods in the plantation areas where they run. Dealing with both staff members and their households, APC is making a substantial financial investment in the advancement of neighborhoods and societies, ameliorating operating and social conditions and boosting facilities to develop much better futures for the APC household.
A heart-warming and poignant story was related about how the whole Asia Plantation Capital household rallied around a staff member whose house and all his household’s belongings were ruined in 2014 by fire. His residence was reconstructed (in record time) together with every possible property changed, therefore he and his household really rapidly belonged to call house when again.

“I am happy by exactly what Asia Plantation Capital has actually accomplished in the reasonably brief time we have actually stayed in business,” stated Barry Rawlinson, Chief Executive Officer – Asia Pacific. “Not just have we had the ability to offer all our stakeholders a strong return on the plantation tasks that we handle for them, however we have actually likewise adhered to our values, and satisfied our objective of developing the neighborhoods that we remain in.”.
He continued, “Our stakeholders, investors and the senior management group at the AGM were really happy with our outcomes. 2013 was an exceptional year for the business, and we are effectively set to continue our steady and strong development. 2014 is currently on track to exceed exactly what we attained in 2014.”.
“From exactly what I have actually visited to date,” he concluded, “We securely think that 2014 will certainly be another terrific year for our group of business, with numerous brand-new interesting advancements on the near hori.

About Asia Plantation Capital.
Quick realities:.
US$ 600 million – incorporated value of possessions possessed and under management.
US$ 53.5 million – turnover in the last fiscal year.
US$ 100 million – turnover forecast for existing fiscal year.
2,000,000 – Aquilaria trees today, on Agarwood plantations.

Asia Plantation Capital (APC) is the owner and operator of a varied variety of office 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 tasks on 4 continents, with functional jobs at different phases in Thailand, Malaysia, China, Laos, India, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Vietnam, North America and Europe.
Promoting making use of qualified 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 making sure that no wood from unlawful logging is utilized.

Von Asia Plantation Capital neu eingeführtes Überwachungssystem kann Bäume direkt in Augenschein nehmen

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Singapur (ots/PRNewswire) – Die in Singapur ansässige Asia Plantation Capital hat nach mehrjähriger eingehender Erforschung der besten und effizientesten zur Verfügung stehenden Methoden zur Überwachung des Baumwachstums und Erhöhung der Sicherheit auf Plantagen mit hochwertigem Baumbestand ein neues System zum Patent angemeldet, das auf computerbasierten luftgestützten Drohnen beruht, die mit einem zentralen Kontrollsystem verbunden und für die Überwachung der Plantagen programmiert sind.
Das neue System wurde während der vergangenen neun Monate erfolgreich in thailändischen Plantagen getestet und steht ab jetzt für die Implementierung in sämtlichen hochwertigen Anpflanzungen und Anlagen des Unternehmens bereit.
“Während der letzten Jahre haben wir als Teil unserer kontinuierlichen Forschungs- und Entwicklungsstrategie verschiedene Systeme in unseren Plantagen getestet und installiert. Dazu gehören fernbediente Sensoren für Bodentemperatur, Niederschlag, Nährstoffe sowie Sensoren für Baumwachstum und Luftfeuchtigkeit, die vom in Singapur ansässigen Unternehmen BioMachines bereitgestellt werden,” erklärt CEO Barry Rawlinson. “Echtzeit-Überwachung mit Kameras hat sich auf ausgedehnten Plantagen, die sich über beachtlich große Gebiete erstrecken, immer als problematisch erwiesen.”
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Der Einsatz dieser neuesten, mit GPS-Tracking und Funktionalität für voreingestellte Flugbahnen ausgerüsteten Luftbildkamera-Drohnen macht die konsistente Abdeckung von Plantagen möglich und liefert wertvolle Daten zum Wachstum in Echtzeit sowie fotografische Daten an die Manager des Bodenteams.

Asia Plantation Capital In Record Breaking CITES Favor Malaysian Agarwood Import

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From its plantations in Thailand, to its cutting-edge factory and lab in Johor, Malaysia, Asia Plantation Capital just recently finished a single MENTIONS authorized delivery of 5,000 kilogrammes of Agarwood (Oud) woodchips and powder for last processing.

Rural economies in both Thailand and Malaysia are taking advantage of the growing need for Agarwood trees grown on sustainable plantations that produce Oud– the world’s most costly (per kg) forestry final product – whether it remain in the type of a raw necessary oil, fragrant woodchips, powder, or splendid hand sculpted collection pieces.

Asia Plantation Capital’s Aquilaria trees, the source of sustainable Agarwood

Asia Plantation Capital is acknowledged as being among the world’s leading plantation and forestry management business, with an ever-increasing reach and an enthusiastic dedication to the research study and advancement of trademarked innovations that have actually assisted reestablish the jeopardized Aquilaria tree (from which Oud is drawn out and from which woodchips are produced), to its natural environment. In line with Asia Plantation Capital’s values of ecological obligation, the business has actually been broadening throughout Asia recently, with sustainable Agarwood plantations under management in Thailand, Sri Lanka and Malaysia, in addition to joint endeavors in India, Laos, China and Myanmar. Asia Plantation Capital now provides the best option of Agarwood types and items to the global markets.

All Asia Plantation Capital’s Agarwood items can be accredited about source, in addition to the date of planting, all appropriate guarantees, and the tasks for replanting. Asia Plantation Capital is dedicated to growing a minimum of one sapling for each tree collected, making the cycle 100 % sustainable.

“This very first delivery to our brand-new factory and purification centre in Johor, Malaysia marks the start of a procedure that will certainly see as much as 25,000 kilogrammes each month going through our Johor factory and purification centre,” stated Steve Watts, Asia Plantation Capital Berhad’s CEO. “We picked Johor for our very first such cutting-edge center due to its place – providing us simple access by rail, roadway and sea to all the significant export markets. It likewise enables us to centralise our present Asia-wide production in one purpose-built center, and is completely located near significant Agarwood trading markets such as Singapore and China, where we likewise have a joint endeavor factory with China’s biggest Agarwood maker, the Hua Lin Group.”.

“It’s reasonable to state that everyone now appears to understand about Oud oil, due to its usage in the worldwide scent market. We think that extremely couple of business in the market today focus on all end items that have such huge appeal and are in such high need throughout all markets in the method that we do at Asia Plantation Capital.”.
Ahmed Awad (severe left), Asia Plantation Capital’s local professional on instilling Agarwood chips and powder, discussing the subtleties of various scent instilled wood chips to visitors from France.

Asia Plantation Capital intends to protect its position as the premium sustainable and MENTIONS licensed items company in the international market, and Ahmed and his group are currently showing their dedication to this objective. They bring with them methods to maximise quality and grow market share that have actually been bied far through generations in the Middle East– a reflection not just of the item value, however likewise its cultural and historic significance. Modern science likewise plays its part, with proprietorial innovation continuously being investigated and established by the business’s Scientific Board of advisers, which is consisted of the market’s leading authorities from Thailand, China, the Middle East and, most just recently, India.

“Contribute to this the joint endeavor with Hua Lin in China,” Watts continued, “and we have leading professionals on Oud items from the 2 biggest single markets in the world. It’s a depth of understanding and knowledge that is, fairly just, unique in the market.”.

Any comprehensive analysis of the market will certainly reveal that Agarwood (Oud) items that are offered in the ‘High Streets’ around the globe originated from a range of nations and types. They all have their own distinct attributes that attract various markets, however it’s currently clear that the exclusive systems APC has actually established over the last 7 years are showing their worth, with range being a vital element of the business’s approach in addition to its rejection to jeopardize on quality.

“Many individuals think that it’s merely a case of growing a tree and awaiting it to grow,” stated Steve Watts in closing. “At Asia Plantation Capital, nevertheless, we understand that the effective mix of science and nature produces the winning formula to make sure that we produce the ideal items, from numerous sources, that please all the requirements of the critical end purchasers.”.

Through Asia Plantation Capital’s partner brand, Fragrance Du Bois, oils from its Thailand plantations are now discovered in its great scents in Paris, New york city, Dubai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok and London, in addition to in Brunei, with strategies currently in location to broaden into Germany, Switzerland and Saudi Arabia in the coming months. Other oils from Asia Plantation Capital– all sustainably produced– can likewise be discovered in widely known luxury brands worldwide.

The 5,000 kgs presently being processed in Asia Plantation Capital’s brand-new Johor factory is predestined for export to merchants in the Gulf area, where the business likewise prepares to construct its 2nd massive factory. The center in the United Arab Emirates will certainly allow end processing and production in the area, and will certainly enhance Asia Plantation Capital’s existing local wholesale and retail company that was developed in 2010.

Notes for Editors:.
About Asia Plantation Capital.
Quick realities:.
US$ 600 million – incorporated value of possessions had and under management.
US$ 53.5 million – turnover in the last fiscal year.

Asia Plantation Capital is the owner and operator of a varied variety of office 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. Working carefully with, and supporting regional neighborhoods, is a hidden core concept of the Asia Plantation Capital company, supplying social and cultural support, as well as financial investment, to move these neighborhoods away from logging and prohibited logging activities, formerly seen as a major source of earnings in some areas of Asia.

Promoting making use of sustainable and qualified 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 making sure that no wood from unlawful logging is chosen.

About Fragrance Du Bois.
Fragrance Du Bois is a specific niche luxury fragrance home working carefully with sustainable plantations in Asia, bringing amazing brand-new 100 % natural Oud oil based scents to unique 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 supplying 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 develops just the finest experience in custom perfumery.
Fragrance Du Bois is called Parfums Du Bois in France and in non-French speaking markets, as Fragrance Du Bois.

Our commitment: to present the realities, the truth, and the possibilities of bamboo

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At World Bamboo, we aim to supply the facts, the reality and the capacities of bamboo. While promoting the prospective sustainability of bamboo, we likewise acknowledge “troublesome realities” such as the difficulty of accreditation, finest management practices, chain of custody, and employees security in the production of bamboo items, and so on. Business in the company of bamboo who are sourcing their product from other nations require to understand the facts and the realities of how bamboo grows, how it is collected, who possesses the bamboo, how it is processed.

Some individuals might imagine hundreds of thousands of acres of “bamboo plantation”, nevertheless even in the most plentiful bamboo forests of China, a lot of are possessed and handled by households. The boost in need for bamboo items has actually enhanced the regional requirement of living in and around these bamboo forests, nevertheless many of these bamboo farmers do not have the resources to use chemical fertilizers or pesticides. Appropriate management methods typically relate to healthy bamboo stands, so using pesticides is not needed, yet alone attempting to “water” huge bamboos on sloped hillsides.

World Bamboo does undoubtedly value the requirement for customers to feel comfy with the purchase of bamboo items, and World Bamboo is dedicated to being a part of promoting sustainable and accountable forestry practices. At World Bamboo, we are positive that bamboo has a rightful location as a remarkable option to standard lumber and fiber sources.

Bamboo is a huge group of plants (over 1,400 types) and it is a native plant on every continent other than Europe and Antarctica. Bamboo groves avoid disintegration, clean the air, shop carbon, offer environment, supply food, offer biomass, offer resource, and supply chances for neighborhood advancement.
For bamboo to save its intrinsic green qualifications, it is needed for us as users, growers, designers, engineers, designers, researchers, etc, to focus on its technical, social, cultural and financial values. This method bamboo can provide genuinely sustainable options.

Thailand’s New Luxury Export with Asia Plantation Capital

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thailand’s extraordinary, rural farming economies– having actually been famed the world over for producing a myriad of crops, from rice to the magical agarwood tree– have actually now handled a brand-new instructions with the assistance of Asia Plantation Capital. The agarwood market has actually been running in Thailand for centuries, providing oudh oils and wood chips to worldwide purchasers from China and The Middle East– although, in truth, its market share (compared with other Asian neighbours) has actually been thought about fairly little, with Malaysia alone having actually been acknowledged by POINTS OUT as supplying 50 % of the world’s agarwood need.

That is all altering: Asia Plantation Capital has actually effectively developed over 3,000 rai of brand-new agarwood plantations in Thailand. These plantations take advantage of the Company’s innovative innovations and, more significantly, from the back-end financial investment it has actually made in factories and in the processing of the raw wood into high-value final result; these are connected to its worldwide workplace and distribution network, in all vital markets, direct to customers and wholesalers from London, Paris, Shanghai, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok and Dubai. The business is now changing the face of the agarwood market throughout Asia – sustainably replanting and gathering trees a minimum of 2 trees for each one dropped, with production enhancing, year on year.

Barry Rawlinson, CEO of Asia Plantation Capital, states: “One of the major obstacles to oudh oils from nature being useable in worldwide scents and cosmetics is being able to provide a constant quality of oil. Over the last couple of years, working with our Scientific Advisory Board in Thailand, Malaysia and China (as well as with specialist consultancy groups in Switzerland and the Middle East) we have actually been able to recognize the essential procedures which allow us to provide a high quality and constant requirement of completed oil to the market; bear in mind, any modifications in the quality of the oil going into a great scent can trigger big variations in the completed item– from just a minute distinction in the oil element. As an outcome of this work, we have actually produced oils that are now licensed by IFRA (International Fragrance Association).

As additional evidence of the consistency and the quality of Asia Plantation Capital’s oils, a great scent produced utilizing oudh oils from the Company’s own plantations and distillery was just recently shortlisted in the world’s leading 10 brand-new scents by “The International Art and Olfactory Awards”, in Los Angeles. The scent was produced by the Company’s partner luxury scent brand, “Fragrance Du Bois” by 5th generation French perfumer, Francois-Merle-Baudoin.

Throughout the last year, the brand has actually been included at The Arab Womens’ Awards, Exsence in Milan, London Bridal Show, Beauty World Middle East, Luxury World Middle East, World Perfumery Congress, Chartwell Luxury, Tatler, Formula 1 Grand Prix in Singapore, and in Abu Dhabi and in Monaco as the main Amber Lounge Fragrance leading to partnerships with the Prince Albert of Monaco Foundation– which supports the international environment and has an unique relationship with Thailand’s own Environmental Foundations. Fragrance Du Bois commissioned an unique scent development to support the FPA2 Foundation, in addition to many star and bespoke scent developments– consisting of David Haye, the Former World Heavyweight and Cruiserweight World boxing champ: the one thing they all have in typical is making use of pure oudh oil, produced in Thailand– by Asia Plantation Capital.

All this has actually assisted Asia Plantation Capital end up being the favored provider of natural oudh to global business and many perfumers, in addition to leading Gulf organizations and households– assisting them take pleasure in the utmost oils which are pure oudh, pure luxury– produced in Thailand.
As an outcome of Asia Plantation Capital’s success in promoting the agarwood and establishing market in Thailand, its CEO– Barry Rawlinson– was pleased to provide an unique scent, produced with 100 % pure, Thailand produced oudh, from its plantations, to the Chairman of the Board of Post Publishing Plc, Mom Rajawongse Pridiyathorn Devakula, at the current Bangkok Investment Expo 2014 (held at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre) in Bangkok.

About Asia Plantation Capital.
Asia Plantation Capital is an owner and operator of a varied variety of business plantation and farming companies throughout the Asia-Pacific area, and internationally, part of the Asia Plantation Capital Group of associated business. Developed formally in 2008, although running independently given that 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, Mozambique, The Gambia, North America and Europe.
Promoting making use of licensed 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 guaranteeing that no wood from prohibited logging is made use of.

About Fragrance Du Bois.
Fragrance Du Bois is a specific niche luxury fragrance home working carefully with sustainable plantations in Asia, bringing interesting 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 develops 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 the World Perfumery Congress.
The World Perfumery Congress (WPC) is an international biennial scent market online forum including a mix of instructional and networking formats that supply the current understandings for providers, makers and customer item online marketers, while likewise linking sellers and purchasers.