KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 22 (Bernama) -- Local palm oil planters should grab theopportunity to gain additional revenue by venturing into the paper-makingindustry, now that there is a latest cost-effective technology that couldprocess oil palm pulp into papers.

Ecopulp Pty Ltd managing director, E.Kendall Pye, said that paper makerswere not using oil palm fibre to make paper as there was no appropriatetechnology which could be used to process the pulp on larger scale.

"The technology that we provide can help to assist the local paperindustry for a better and larger scale which can be commercialisedglobally," he told Bernama at the 2001 International Palm Oil Congress(2001 PIPOC) which ends here Wednesday.

The three-day congress was organised by the Malaysian Palm Oil Board(MPOB).

-- BERNAMA