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CBIP: Good Order Flow for Modipalm Mills
CBIP: Good Order Flow for Modipalm Mills
18/10/2014 (Business Times) - CB INDUSTRIAL Product Holding Bhd (CBIP), which holds the patent for constructing Modipalm mills, said its current order book of some RM500 million will keep it busy for another 18 months.
CBIP managing director Lim Chai Beng said while low palm oil prices were slowing oil palm estate owners’ investments, orders were still coming in for mill upgrades.
“We’re getting orders, although there may be slight delays here and there. Out of the RM500 million orders to put up new mills and upgrade old ones, 70 per cent are from outside Malaysia.
“Old mills in Malaysia need to be upgraded and our Modipalm technology has been proven to minimise oil loss.
“This helps contribute to better oil extraction rates at the mills,” Lim said after the company’s extraordinary general meeting, here, yesterday.
CBIP shareholders also approved the company’s plan to issue bonus shares and warrants.
Lim said oil palm planters have everything to gain if they upgraded their conventional mills to an automated Modipalm.
Its continuous steriliser system is compact, he said, adding that it took up less space, fuel and labour; produced more and higher quality oil; and was kinder to the environment.
At a Modipalm mill, there is no need for tractors and hydraulic skid-steer loaders or wire-rope winches to move the fruit-cages around.
There is also no need for monorail hoists to lift the cages to the threshing machine. This means less machinery to maintain and, in two shifts, the Modipalm mill needs only 25 workers, or half the staff strength to operate a conventional 40-tonne mill processing 200,000 tonnes of fresh fruit bunches in a year.
“Fewer workers also means less houses to be built on the plantation. So, you see, it is worthwhile to invest in a Modipalm mill,” Lim said.
On CBIP’s other sources of income, executive director Mak Chee Meng said the company’s oil palm landbank in Indonesia totalled 65,000ha.
In Malaysia, CBIP has a joint venture with Tradewinds Group, with its share amounting to 7,500ha.
“We’re now working hard to top up the landbank in Indonesia. We may be slow (in land acquisition) but we are sure in our investments because we go through all the legal compliance step by step,” Mak said.
CBIP managing director Lim Chai Beng said while low palm oil prices were slowing oil palm estate owners’ investments, orders were still coming in for mill upgrades.
“We’re getting orders, although there may be slight delays here and there. Out of the RM500 million orders to put up new mills and upgrade old ones, 70 per cent are from outside Malaysia.
“Old mills in Malaysia need to be upgraded and our Modipalm technology has been proven to minimise oil loss.
“This helps contribute to better oil extraction rates at the mills,” Lim said after the company’s extraordinary general meeting, here, yesterday.
CBIP shareholders also approved the company’s plan to issue bonus shares and warrants.
Lim said oil palm planters have everything to gain if they upgraded their conventional mills to an automated Modipalm.
Its continuous steriliser system is compact, he said, adding that it took up less space, fuel and labour; produced more and higher quality oil; and was kinder to the environment.
At a Modipalm mill, there is no need for tractors and hydraulic skid-steer loaders or wire-rope winches to move the fruit-cages around.
There is also no need for monorail hoists to lift the cages to the threshing machine. This means less machinery to maintain and, in two shifts, the Modipalm mill needs only 25 workers, or half the staff strength to operate a conventional 40-tonne mill processing 200,000 tonnes of fresh fruit bunches in a year.
“Fewer workers also means less houses to be built on the plantation. So, you see, it is worthwhile to invest in a Modipalm mill,” Lim said.
On CBIP’s other sources of income, executive director Mak Chee Meng said the company’s oil palm landbank in Indonesia totalled 65,000ha.
In Malaysia, CBIP has a joint venture with Tradewinds Group, with its share amounting to 7,500ha.
“We’re now working hard to top up the landbank in Indonesia. We may be slow (in land acquisition) but we are sure in our investments because we go through all the legal compliance step by step,” Mak said.