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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.

亚洲种植园资本公司 (APC) 让一切变得简单：亚洲种植园资本公司 (Asia Plantation Capital) 的成功案例表明：垂直整合，可行有效

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在《麦肯锡季刊》1993 年 8 月刊中，John Stuckey 和 David White 极力劝阻公司对其业务进行垂直整合，并称这将带来巨大的危险。

文章所传达的主要信息在第一段便已昭然若揭（这一点令人颇为意外，因为麦肯锡的写手们通常在给出结论之前，喜欢长篇大论）。早在第一段，作者就已明确地表达观点，那就是：“在创造价值或维系价值时，除非必须如此，否则切勿进行垂直整合。”

文章继而详细地描述了其潜在的威胁。而后，作者又一番谆谆教诲，字里行间向读者传达的讯息是：我们，以及整个麦肯锡团队，都不赞同这种做法。

作者列举了垂直整合的复杂性和所涉及的风险。这种做法代价昂贵，而且即使所有的“鸭子”都整齐划一地排列到位，也并不能确保成功。Stuckey 和 White 还指出，一旦失败，垂直整合的商业模式便难以恢复原状，毫无回旋余地。

公司进行垂直整合的原因有很多。这些公司至少看上去运行良好，明智而审慎。

采取垂直整合的公司拥有的一个关键优势在于，他们拥有自己的供应链，因此可以在每一个环节上创造价值（只要他们愿意）。在良好的商业模式下，供应链的每一个环节都将产生不同的产品或服务。

这种优势相对来说较易于实现，只需满足一个重要条件，即垂直整合的公司无论制造什么产品都有市场。

理想状态下，完美的商业模式离不开数个相互关联的企业，它们竞相购买和使用制造的产品。这样的话，在交易日结束估算账目时，公司某一部门就不会向另一个部门额外收取产品相关费用，也就使得价格可控。这样做的意义何在？价格过低也不可取，因为需要考虑账目，达到收支平衡。在理想化的商务运作中，价格可经协商后达成一致，从而使得所有相关方都能从中获益。不能过度强调供应链控制对成功运作垂直整合商业模式的作用。实际上，对于许多进行垂直整合的公司而言，“控制”似乎是它们谈论的热门话题。

良好的控制可以降低成本，提高效率，确保质量，同时保证各种可变因素尽在掌握。那 Stuckey 和 White 究竟在担心什么？

垂直整合商业模式除上述种种优势之外，也不乏大量的失败案例，警示世人。供应链的强度由最弱的环节决定。这虽是老生常谈，但如果某一阶段的需求无法达到预期，就会带来灾难性的重创，从而影响到整个系统的运行。

最基本的一个案例就是过去的汽车制造商。这些公司经过垂直整合后，不仅负责汽车各部件的生产制造，还负责把控整车制造 — 终端产品的营销与配送自不用说，也是由公司全权负责。

一家汽车公司从生产零部件，到将零部件组装成最终产品，然后通过自有的代理商将其产品销售给顾客。本质上说，这是垂直整合商业模式的一个很好的案例。

问题出在哪里？公司对各组成部件的质量（包括价格和供应）、终端产品的质量和供应量均有着良好的控制，足以满足市场需求。

但问题是，需求并不总是一成不变。如果，（还是以汽车行业为例），需求下降，就会造成产量过剩和资源过剩。这时，恐怕财务总监就要忙着审视自己的选择是否正确了（原文如此）。

关于垂直整合的恐怖画面就描绘到这里；其实，这种模式还是可行有效的。亚洲种植园资本公司似乎就给了我们一个很好的例证 — 垂直整合这种商业模式令全球各地的分析师们都为之抓耳挠腮，尽管都对其垂涎已久。简单来说就是，它非常有效，但还需谨慎。

在亚洲种植园资本 (APC) 这个案例中，他们占尽了垂直整合的各种好处，同时巧妙地规避了各种危险，对供应链各相关衔接部位均控制得当，将潜在的优势发挥到最大程度。公平地说，APC 的管理阶层都是控制狂人。但是在理论上最理想的状态下，垂直整合也只关乎控制。

对于非商务专业人士来说，以下可能会有点枯燥。这个世界不乏成功的故事和盈利的公司。而 APC 的成就是将成功续写为一个传奇。很难确定孰先孰后。但先后并不重要。无论是机缘巧合，还是苦心经营，APC 创新的商业模式完全有资格屹立于现代商业之殿。

APC 特有的“土地-精油-客户”业务模式贯彻于各大种植园区和联营公司，而在这种模式的背后，可持续性、可再生性与环保意识完美结合，对于投资者和股东而言，这也是一次绝佳的机会。

世界投资领域的变革进行到现阶段，上述三大要素的结合的确是令人振奋，亚洲种植园资本公司似乎摸到了现代商业的时代脉搏。

公司从购买土地入手，最终获得馥郁奇香的产品。其间的所有步骤以及确保供应链各环节坚不可摧的所有流程均由 APC 监管。

 

始于土地…

供应链很长，偶尔也会复杂。但本质上是，APC 公司在自有种植园种植树木，并以合乎道德的可持续发展方式收获树木。之后，再从中提取一种物质，其价值甚至超过同等质量的金子。

没有进行太多的科学研究，APC 便开始在种植园种植沉香属树木 — 这种树木因非法砍伐而濒临灭绝，并名列 CITES（《濒危野生动植物国际贸易公约》）濒危物种名单。

APC 竭尽全力，将这一物种重新在自然环境中培植，直到它再次繁茂生长。那么问题来了：为什么沉香属树木会濒临灭绝？

答案很简单：因为它异常珍贵。

 

到精油…

沉香属树木在受到某种霉菌感染侵袭后，会产生一种深色的树脂，而正是这种物质（又名伽罗木、沉香木或沉香）价值极高。

在世界很多地方，沉香用于宗教和文化仪式中已有数千年的历史（特别在中东地区尤其受追捧），沉香因其独有的奇香和药用价值而备受珍视。沉香是自然界最神奇的物质之一。

沉香在蒸馏处理后，可产生一种自远古以来就用于制作香水的精油 — APC 留意到了这一点，并从中看到了商机，着手拼凑出完整的版图。

APC 沉香属树木分泌的沉香质量极佳，公司在垂直整合思路的引导下，建立了自有蒸馏厂，从而保证了供应链的无缝接合。

APC 在自有种植园内种植树木（供应链上的另外一环），并建立研发咨询委员会，以研发优化生长和产量所需的专利技术（供应链上至关重要且意义深远的一环）。

值得一提的是，这些树木不仅出产沉香精油，其木片和各种其他衍生品的需求量也很高。世界各地都采用沉香作为熏香，甚至因其具有的芳香气味而直接使用。

为确保种植园的树木从一开始就拥有最好的生长条件，APC 自己种植样本，仅选用最健康、硬度最大的进行种植。因此实现了对整个流程最早阶段的控制。一直以来，控制都是至关重要。

而在蒸馏出沉香之后，供应链后面的环节才开始起作用。全球对沉香精油的需求越来越大，部分香水行业的年产值估计已达 60 亿至 120 亿美元。

 

再到客户。

香氛世界对沉香的需求现已无法满足，您会在许多世界最知名的香水中发现沉香的踪迹。沉香已成为二十一世纪的首选优质配料，像伊夫•圣罗兰、迪奥和汤姆•福特这样的知名品牌都纷纷采用。

Fragrance Du Bois 作为时尚新宠，跻身一众名贵品牌 — 这种新型香水有着市面上最罕见的奇香，令人陶醉不已。

Fragrance Du Bois 是亚洲种植园资本集团开发的新产品（您可能已经猜到），而且可能是整个产品链的最后一环。产品链环环相扣，无缝接合。Du Bois 已在新加坡和吉隆坡开设旗舰精品店，在不久的将来还将有更多的精品店开张。芬芳的香味引得人们对这个行业兴趣十足。2012 年，行业规模估计已达 280 亿美元。

Fragrance Du Bois 香水由一小群高级调香师配制而成，并鲜明地烙上了其个人特色印记，公司在非常短的时间内，凭借原创而创新的产品核心，在市场上占据了一席之地。

令 Fragrance Du Bois 的高级调香师们最为享受的是，能采用如此优质的沉香调配香水。确保沉香是最高等级、百分百有机纯净，而且来源清楚。高级调香师们确切地知道沉香的来源及其制作过程。

同样重要的是，他们知道这些沉香的制作过程和来源获取都将可持续化视为关键，无论是整个制作理念，还是产品链的可持续供应，都是如此。

如果控制在成功的垂直整合商业模式中发挥了主要作用，那么 APC 似乎创建了一幅完美的终极蓝图。APC 旗下各公司购置土地、拥有土地、种植树木、提取树脂、生产木材和精油，然后将产品提供给一个迅速发展的行业。在这个行业中，APC 拥有数量众多的零售店。

APC 占据高地，掌控全局；在供应链的每个环节都有生产和销售渠道，因而质量得以保证，价值得以提升。

人们很容易会认为，亚洲种植园资本的管理层在 1993 年看了 Stuckey 和 White 的文章后不久，便开始进行垂直整合商业模式的探索，而在当时这一模式似乎距离完美并不遥远。

看来，警告已得到注意，危险已成功规避，而特殊案例也已然发生。另类投资最重要的三重底线是员工、生态和利润，而属于这个年代的商业模式符合另类投资的诸多条件

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.