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It’s a commercial collaboration in India for Asian Plantation Capital

Asia Plantation Capital is proud to reveal Stage 1 of a commercial collaboration in India with the nation’s largest, public sector, agarwood plantation group-a neighborhood based job, extending across the whole of Southern India.

Vanadurgi Agarwood India was established around 10 years back as a cooperative-shareholder business model-providing regional farmers and landowners with growing stocks, and support to cultivate agarwood and other money crops. The company has grown, and ha snow developed over 5,000 grower plantations throughout South India; accounting for about 99 % of agarwood trees presently in South India. In the prime plantation zone at Sringeri, in Karnataka, the company has established an old-model plantation system, an agriculture research station, an artificial-inoculummultiplying unit, warehousing and a packing and forwarding centre. In addition, a requirement, resinous wood extraction facility with alarge scale, primary processing unit is being planned right here. Also, fully-fledged, primary processing systems are planned at: Madikeri, Sakaleshpur, Shimoga, Sirsi, Puttur and Kollur (in Karnataka) with collection centres at Coimbatore (in Tamil Nadu)and at Kalpetta (in Kerala).

After visits by Dharmendra Kumar-the founder of Vanadurgi-to Thailand, andtoother nations in South East Asia, to study and develop relationships with other industrial agarwood plantations, Asia Plantation Capital is pleased that the group have chosen Asia Plantation Capital to work with them on developing inoculation solutions and the end-processing of agarwood into all the various (and increasing)items it can offer.During early July, a team from Asia Plantation Capital’s Specialist Inoculation and Research Department carried out field trials in India to assess the best inoculation systems-based on our experience in refining a system in Thailand and Malaysia which has a 100 % success rate in stimulating the production of agarwood resin, and which is 100 % organic; equivalent to oud oils produced in nature. We were overwhelmed to find so lots of individuals who share our interest for developing the agarwood market and for utilizing the best husbandry and socially responsible management practices to advance this enormous plantation market in a comsustainable way.

The Asia Plantation Capital group will now be working closely with Vanadurgi to monitor and examine our inoculation processes.All nations (and even regions)have differing weather and biodiversity conditions-all of which have a major effect on the performance of these systems-and it is important that we tailor and research study our methods to provide them maximum yield and quality of the end oud that is produced in all the areas.

Phase 2 of the collaboration will see Asia Plantation Capital and Vanadurgi working on end-processing solutions, distillation, and developing consumer products which we can collectively market-creating the world’s largest, integrated producer and supplier of agarwood -with the ability to offer long term, sustainable materials of constant quality to the international market place.Asia Plantation Capital chooses, very thoroughly, whom it works with and with whom its hares its technologies.The benefits for the biggest agarwood plantation group in India-gained b yjointly working with Asia Plantation Capital-are the potential to develop the largest, single supplier and grower in the world andt to increase the market share for both companies. This offers both companies the opportunity to take advantage of joint research study and innovations; helping to further secure the future market and sustainable products of agarwood, for both business and the industry.

Notes to Editors: About Asia Plantation CapitalAsia Plantation Capital is an owner and operator of a diverse range of industrial plantation and farming businesses across the Asia-Pacific region-and globally, part of the Asia Plantation Capital Group of associated companies. Their focus is on multicultural and varied plantation jobs, tailored to the domestic and office demands of the nations where they operate. Working carefully with, and supporting local communities is an underlying core concept of the APC business-providing social and cultural support (as well as investment)to move these communities far from logging and prohibited logging activities which were previously viewed as a major income source in some areas of Asia. Established formally in 2008, although running privately because 2002, the group now has plantation and farming projects on 4 continents-with operational tasks at various phases in: Thailand, Malaysia, China, Laos, India, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Mozambique, The Gambia, North America and Europe.Promoting the usage of qualified wood is the finest method of avoiding logging, protecting biodiversity and combatting poverty in the Tropical Rainforest areas. For the Yachting Sector, which makes every effort for quality and which is currently associated with environmental efforts, this is likewise a method of making sure that no wood from prohibited logging is used.

About Vanadurgi

AgarwoodThe Vanadurgi Agarwood India Limited is a public sector business that is solely participated in the growing, production and marketing of agarwood. The business has huge experience, competence and facilities in each and every section of the agarwood industry. The business has developed over 5,000 agarwood plantations and is emerging as among the world’s largest agarwood plantation business. Our goal is to become a one-stop-shop for agarwood raw materials, without any parallels elsewhere in the world. We plan to fulfill that goal through a mix of experience and partnerships with leading specialists from around the world.The business has established over 5,000 plantations across South India, accounting to about 99 % of trees presently in South India. In the prime plantation zone at Sringeri in Karnataka, the business has actually established an old model plantation, an agriculture research station, an artificial inoculum increasing device, warehousing, and a packing and forwarding centre. Further, a conventional resinous wood extraction center with a big scale main processing device is likewise being planned right here. Also, full-fledged primary processing units are prepared at Madikeri, Sakaleshpur, Shimoga, Sirsi, Puttur and Kollur in Karnataka, and collection centres at Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu and at Kalpetta in Kerala

French and Oud Connection for the present age.

Sought after because the dawn of time; revered in Middle Eastern and Asian cultures; Oud has quick end up being the active ingredient of option worldwide’s unique scents.

Magical, enigmatic, and essential, Oud is drawn out from the extremely valued and quick vanishing Agarwood tree that is belonging to Southeast Asia and its environments. It has an amazing history and intricacy, and is now to be discovered in the shops and high-end branded shops whose names are redolent of Parisian Haute Couture and French finery.

Disciples of Oud are legion– especially amongst the coterie of the world’s Master Perfumers who value its amazing qualities and the depth it provides to a scent. To that group of cognoscenti, we can now include, rather all of a sudden, the Private Banker, Wealth Manager and Family Office.

The brand-new brand of fans is not always drawn to Oud for its practically legendary health-giving, wellness or perhaps aphrodisiacal qualities occasionally depicted in tv projects or in shiny periodicals together with the current fragrance du jour. Nor maybe for its superb fragrance and richness of olfactory structure. Exactly what’s promoting interest are difficult money, and the nourishing of ecological and sustainable consciences.

Considering that 2000, the trees from which Oud is gotten has actually been positioned on the CITES threatened types list, and their harvesting in the wild has actually been made unlawful. Need is pressing, and growing, and has actually added to the trees in the wild being collected to near termination due to their value in Chinese and Middle Eastern cultures, in addition to a myriad of other usages in the pharmaceutical, cosmetics and scent markets and beyond.

Stocks remain in brief supply, while need is enhancing, and that just 7 in every 100 trees produce Oud, which even those 7 can just produce a small quantity of the wonderful oil, has actually caused an extraordinary denudation. It has actually likewise produced a distinct financial investment and sustainable company chance.

The option would seem a simple one to reach; plant more trees, await a couple of years, and get rich.

In fact, growing the trees and growing them is fairly simple. The secret lies in having the exclusive innovation, production, experience and competence systems through to final product distribution to turn a basic tree from a near useless softwood, into an oil that is valued at approximately US$ 50,000 per kilogramme.

In this circumstances, it is a carefully concealed (of significant value) and Asia Plantation Capital (APC) is among the few business who, over the last 10 years, have actually accomplished the apparently unlikely. Lots of business assert to have actually made the current and biggest clinical advancements, however just APC and a handful of smaller sized business and growers – numerous of whom work solely with the APC Group– have actually regularly produced outcomes that confirm their claims.

Backed up by all the pertinent accreditation and approvals, in addition to the necessary distribution network, Asia Plantation Capital has an exclusive ‘Soil to Oil to You’ company design that includes vertical combination in the whole supply chain, from seed proliferation, all the method through to informed customers purchasing retail items.

The Asia Plantation Capital Agroforestry Group has actually just recently been engaging with European and Middle Eastern based financial investment supervisors, funds, household workplaces and personal lenders to inform its distinct story.

Eyebrows were raised, interests stimulated, and interest signed up, with a number of groups seizing the day to visit the business’ plantations, factories and retail outlets in Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore, to see on their own exactly what all the buzz had to do with.

It was a buzz produced by the business and its jobs being bestowed with the “Best Forestry Asset Management Award 2014” by CFI Magazine, and being shortlisted as a finalist in the “World Sustainable Business Awards”, kept in Paris by Organic Monitor. And maybe it had something to do with more awards being gathered by fragrances produced by Fragrance Du Bois– among APC’s associated business, to which it provides the extraordinary, 100 % ensured natural, natural Oud oil.

“Having seen our possessions under management grow to US$ 600 million at the end of 2013,” stated Gary Crates – CEO Europe, “from financiers in the understand and our own investors in the Group’s plantation tasks in their nations, we discovered enhancing interest from institutional financiers, pension funds and household workplaces from more afield.”.

The huge distinction is that 95 % of our typical visitors are Asian, who comprehend first-hand the chances in the plantation sector. Seeing European Asset Managers and some from the Middle East was a brand-new experience for us, and plainly an outcome of the difficult work our groups throughout Asia have actually contributed to the business’s and plantations’ hidden success and development.”.

“Mister Vincent de Meaux, from Athos Patrimoine stated, “I need to state I have actually been taking a look at numerous chances in the plantation sector, and performing due diligence on behalf of customers for a variety of years on tasks and business. Prior to my visit, I was open minded, however possibly a little hesitant. The big scale of operations and skilled management and systems Asia Plantation Capital have actually established and put in location, total up to among the most remarkable total plantation company designs I have actually seen.”.

He went on, “Add to that their back-end processing and distribution through their own business’s retail outlets in Asia, the Middle East and Europe, produces a real, vertically incorporated and special sustainable company chance. It likewise resembles among the very best strategic hedge techniques I have actually seen in recent times. It’s not a surprise this business has actually currently attained a lot,” he concluded, “and the included perk for today’s world is that it is 100 % sustainable; the business even has ISO status for its carbon footprint.”.

Fragrance Industry Expert Simon French stated, “Having invested more years than I care to discuss at director level in a few of the world’s biggest scent and flavourings business, I can truthfully state that no component has actually caught the marketplace or certainly had such need as pure Oud. While numerous necessary oils have actually been effectively developed in artificial kind, and lots of business have actually produced artificial Oud-style active ingredients, the animalic nature of natural and pure Oud in fragrance is remarkable and distinct. Any perfumer or Nose will certainly verify; pure Oud is unmatchable and special in its capability to sustain, reinforce and extend the great scent experience.”.

The Group has actually opened, and is opening more luxury flagship stores in a few of the world’s most renowned places, to display its professional fragrance brand, Fragrance Du Bois. Strategies are afoot to partner numerous of the world’s leading scent homes to develop an international chain of specific niche retail outlets providing the most unique choice of great scents and bespoke developments for a critical customers. This will certainly make up an option from the supreme collection of 100 % natural Oud scents produced by an elite group of global perfumers.

With the scent market being just one of the several business applications for Oud and the Agarwood tree, business case is strong, sustainable, and nigh on alluring.

Pure Oud. Pure high-end. Born in nature and crafted in France, a really French Connection for the present age.

APC pleased to reveal the opening of its brand-new, purpose-built Agarwood factoy in Malaysia

Asia Plantation Capital is pleased to reveal the opening of its brand-new, purpose-built Agarwood (gaharu) factory and research study centre, situated in Johor, Malaysia.

A simple 20 minutes drive from the Causeway connect to Singapore, the town of Seri Alam is now host to the cutting-edge center that integrates an Oud oil distillery, a wood chip processing centre, and a scent stick factory. Likewise positioned within the complex is a visitor centre, together with a wholesale factory store equipped with the ever-growing variety of Agarwood items produced by Asia Plantation Capital (APC).

Access to the business’s plantations in Thailand, India and Myanmar were vital aspects, as well as the business’s continuous factory growth in Shenzhen, China. Prepared Oud factories opening in the Middle East situated in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates and Jeddah in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are being established by the business over the next 18 months.

The center is likewise tactically and easily situated in close distance to Singapore– a nation presently ranked as one of Asia’s greatest Agarwood import and export centres– with more than US$ 1.2 billion in approximated trade per year (according to main reports). This provides APC with a leading one-upmanship in regards to its access to a substantial market on its really ‘doorstep.’ This is a future vital element of the planning and place of all the groups factories with China, Northern Asia and the Middle East in between them making up a considerable bulk of existing world sell Agarwood items.

The factory has actually been geared up with the current heat exchange steam purification systems utilizing cleansed water, and a clean energy solar energy system is being set up to make sure optimal financial performance. Sustainable, eco-friendly energy systems are used throughout.

As part of a forward supply contract with China’s biggest merchant of scent sticks, a 300 tonne per year assembly line is likewise being set up, and this will certainly broaden in due course to 600 tonnes per year, to integrate the business’s other places. The center likewise houses a lab for fragrances and important oils, APC inoculation systems production, and MSDS analysis systems.

“We are really delighted to lastly have the ability to take the covers off our cutting-edge Agarwood factory,” stated Steve Watts, CEO of Asia Plantation Capital Berhad, in Kuala Lumpur. “We have actually invested a number of years evaluating the very best all round strategic area, and are delighted to reveal this growth in Malaysia. It’s an outcome of the nation’s steady company environment and forward believing forestry and plantation departments at governmental level, that have actually led us to pick Malaysia and Johor for this strategic factory growth.”.

This is part of an Asia-wide strategic factory and production growth, with a purification factory joint endeavor in China with Hua Lin Group– China’s biggest producer of Agarwood items – as well as strategic development in Thailand into wood chip production and incense production and prepared factories in the Middle East. These systems are not just being made use of by the group to broaden our market share, however is likewise being provided to smaller sized growers and farmers throughout Asia, to aid them in the growing and end processing of Agarwood into an important earnings. As providing systems and understanding, we are providing taken care of ‘purchase backs’ on items made solely from our systems.

Watts went on to state, “The Agarwood plantation market, as we understand, is big and is continuing to grow quickly. The customer market is growing and progressing at a fast rate, and customers are looking for items of regularly high quality with all the appropriate seals of purity, credibility and sustainability.

Watts concluded, “Our items now come specifically with their own individual accreditations– consisting of those from CITES– in addition to EU Product Approvals, Product Safety Data Sheets, IFRA, Certificate of Origin, FDA approval, MSDS analyses, and Shariah Compliant status. Our items, in certain our oils and wood chips, are likewise separately graded by specialists in the field at Thailand’s Prince of Songkla University. By tactically running and possessing cutting-edge, eco-friendly mega factories, sustained by our own plantations and other smaller sized growers, we are now able to provide completion items that the marketplace in fact requires, in regards to quality, rate and consistency.”.

The factory is open and functional for company, with brand-new assembly line being commissioned in the coming months. The visitor centre will certainly be opening in April 2015, together with a wholesale factory store and Agarwood item display screen library.

Fragrance Du Bois Brings World Renown Brand Xerjoff to Southeast Asia for the First Time

“We are delighted to be in Singapore to display our finest and special fragrances under Fragrance Du Bois,” stated Sergio Momo, Xerjoff’s Founder and Creative Director. “I think Fragrance Du Bois shares crucial concepts with Xerjoff in the universe of creative perfumery.

“It brings us terrific satisfaction to be the very first (and just) scent home in Southeast Asia, to host and partner with the world well-known Xerjoff,” stated Nicola Parker, Brand Director of Fragrance Du Bois. Xerjoff will certainly be offered in all our flagship stores, outlets and scent lounges around the word in the coming weeks. This collaboration with Xerjoff,” Parker concluded, “will certainly additionally improve that experience.

At the heart of the Xerjoff brand and all of its developments, is a mix of standard perfumery (going back centuries), and contemporary, handmade bottles. Sergio Momo’s motivation is stemmed from his Italian roots, and his devotion to a time-honoured craft has actually resulted in the solution of a few of the most initial and remarkable scents presently on the marketplace. Momo’s compassion and understanding of the natural world has actually likewise played a part in the general visual, with a mix of semi-precious and valuable hand cut stones, quartz, Murano glass, wood, brass, gold, bronze and leather, taking functions in the succession of work of arts.

Likewise providing some weight to the valuable and uncommon masterpieces that record these extraordinary scents, are the lots of years of research study and advancement in the art of perfumery, together with the partnerships with prominent Italian artists. International and Italian ‘Noses’, carvers and painters – in addition to jewellery designers, glassblowers, diamond cutters and wood engravers – interact to distil, mix and package the valuable essences produced in Grasse (South of France), Spain and Italy.

Xerjoff’s collection – redolent of history and custom, and motivated by aspects and occasions as varied as Siberian meteorite showers and the ancient Arabian art of perfumery — makes sure to consist of a fragrance that will certainly delight and promote the senses of even the most seasoned scent enthusiast..
Working along parallel lines with Fragrance Du Bois, Xerjoff has actually devoted 2 outstanding collections to the enigmatic and magical Oud oil – both provided in magnificently crafted crystal bottles. Sourced from Laos, Indonesia, Thailand, India and Cambodia, the Oud-inspired productions are catching the creativities of scent lovers worldwide.

A choice of Xerjoff’s high-end scents will certainly be readily available at the Fragrance Du Bois flagship store in Singapore from today. They will certainly likewise be readily available in Du Bois’ 2nd flagship shop in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, within a matter of weeks.
Xerjoff in Southeast Asia is solely given you by Fragrance Du Bois, and rates begin with SGD 225.

Asia Plantation Capital Thailand Unveils Brand New Record Numbers at Its Annual General Meeting

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 profits in the 2013 fiscal year, and surpassing US$ 6 million in payments for the very first time, updates were likewise provided on the ongoing growth and acquisition of plantations in Thailand, together with significant growth into Malaysia and other essential Asian nations.

Other highlights consisted of the intro of brand-new methods and innovations developed to enhance the production of Agarwood and Oud – in addition to other final result from its teak, agroforestry 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, together with the current discoveries for possible usages. These have a direct effect 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 surpass other existing 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 travel luggage. To display these systems, the business is currently deploying the innovations in the building of its own vacation homes in Thailand’s Royal Beach Resort in Hua Hin.

Brand Director for Fragrance Du Bois, Nicola Parker, indicated the probability of a US$ 36 billion worldwide 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 prospective need for Oud-based Fragrances.

On the back of this need, the Fragrance Du Bois brand is now participated in a program of opening brand-new shops and outlets in crucial markets around the globe — under its ownership, however in association with vital 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 office 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 workers 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 produce much better futures for the APC household.
A heart-warming and poignant story was related regarding how the whole Asia Plantation Capital household rallied around a staff member whose house and all his household’s belongings were damaged in 2014 by fire. His residence was restored (in record time) together with every possible belongings changed, hence he and his household really rapidly belonged to call house when again.

“I am pleased 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 jobs that we handle for them, however we have actually likewise stayed with 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 extremely delighted with our outcomes. 2013 was an exceptional year for the business, and we are extremely well 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 truths:.
US$ 600 million – integrated value of possessions had 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 industrial 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 tasks 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, securing 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.