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Completion of Two Environmental Energy Projects


Waste water from the company’s factories is now treated in covered in-ground anaerobic reactors (CIGARs) to digest the high organic content in the waste. This innovative digester technology to capture Methane biogas was designed for APO by Waste Solutions Ltd, an international firm of consulting engineers specialising in biogas technology.

Siam biogas engine

Biogas engine

Methane biogas is normally a very damaging greenhouse gas but at our factories it no longer escapes to the atmosphere but is used as a fuel. Two large biogas engines were imported from Spain, each capable of generating up to 950kw electricity for supply to the provincial grid.

Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions to create a new energy source



CIGAR  

The covered anaerobic digesters can hold up to 40,000 cubic metres of palm oil mill effluent (POME). The methane emissions are captured by heavy duty plastic sheeting and piped to the biogas power plant. After treatment in the digesters, water is returned to the existing pond system to be used for irrigation of the company’s plantations and nurseries.



Biogas Opening  

On 16th February 2008, Alpha Palm Oil officially opened the completed biogas projects. In addition to the renewable energy source, the projects are expected to produce revenue from Certified Emission Reductions (CERs) as a Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) incentive under the United Nations protocol on climate change.

Expanding Seed Exports

Germinated oil palm seeds are carefully packaged in cartons of 4,000 seeds each, for dispatch to domestic and export customers. During the past 30 years Alpha Palm Oil has collected and tested pedigree breeding material from research centres around the world. The company now has the most advanced oil palm breeding programme in Malaysia, exporting to growers in seven countries.

Alpha Palm Oil germinated seeds are dispatched by airfreight from the International Airport. The superior performance of this planting material, particularly in low rainfall conditions, has led to increasing export demand. New generations of hybrid crosses are being continuously tested in progeny trials, with an objective of achieving an annual seed production of 10 million seeds by 2010.

Expanding Oil Palm Research Centre

At the APO Oil Palm Research Centre (OPRC) the tissue culture laboratory is expanding operations with more than 60,000 cultures under management. In the picture above the company’s Tissue Culturist displays cultures which have already become embryogenic, forming shoots of the next generation of oil palm clones.



Minister in Bunch Analysis Lab

Minister of Agriculture together with a group of senior officials recently visited the Alpha Palm Oil seed production unit. Pictured above, the minister and his group visit the bunch analysis laboratory where fruit from new progenies in the company’s breeding programme is carefully analysed for bunch composition, including high oil content.

Alpha Palm Oil Field Day

More than 1,000 oil palm growers from around southern Malaysia attended the APO field day. Managers at five estate sites and at the OPRC presented information and answered farmer questions about planting techniques, irrigation requirements, nursery management, and about the importance of advanced oil palm breeding to achieve higher crop yields.

Installation of New Irrigation Systems

Each year Alpha Palm Oil installs new irrigation systems to test the latest generation of hybrid seedlings in both irrigated and non-irrigated field trials. This programme is designed to identify yield responses of different progenies under both high and low rainfall conditions.

New Employee Houses

During 2007, an additional 10 new houses were built for plantations workers and their families. Since the company’s employees are now provided with this high standard of estate housing, there has been low labour turn-over and the company has been fortunate to retain a skilled and stable workforce.

International seeds marketing

The recent Price Outlook Conference in Malaysia was attended by more than 1,800 international palm oil producers and consumers. Alpha Palm Oil was represented at a trade booth to promote awareness of the company’s high yielding oil palm seeds, and to meet customers from around the world.

A bright light on the horizon

At Alpha Palm Oil, surplus methane biogas emitted naturally from the organic waste of palm oil factories, is now destroyed in a flare and no longer escapes to the atmosphere as a damaging greenhouse gas.

 

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