by AER | Jan 29, 2018 | Sectors Review
OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY IN MALAYSIA Petroleum Oil is formed more than 600 million years ago from pressure built on tiny dead living animals and plants (plankton) sank on seabed and through pressure from the top of the seabed. THE ORIGIN OF OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY IN...
by AER | Dec 18, 2017 | Sectors Review
Upstream – Produce FFB Plantation of palm oil trees to produce fresh fruit bunch. Midstream – Mills to convert FFB to CPO and PKO The FFB produced are processed at mills to produce crude palm oil (“CPO”) and Palm Kernel Oil (“PKO”). Total annual world supply of CPO in...
by AER | Dec 4, 2017 | Sectors Review
THE RUBBER INDUSTRY Malaysia is the world’s fifth largest producer of natural rubber after Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam and China. Natural latex from rubber while synthetic rubber is a derivative from petrochemical. The key property of natural rubber is low heat...
by AER | Nov 20, 2017 | Sectors Review
THE POULTRY INDUSTRY The poultry industry is an important source to supply meat protein to Malaysian. The total value of sales value for chicken eggs and chicken meat ex-farm are believed to exceed RM 10 billion annually. As an average, the consumption of chicken...
by AER | Nov 6, 2017 | Sectors Review
THE PACKAGING INDUSTRY ECOSYSTEM The packaging business can be categorized based on: – (i) the material it uses to manufacture the packaging product (ii) based on the market it serves. Under material it uses, it can be broadly classified into plastic based and...
by AER | Oct 23, 2017 | Sectors Review
Most steel companies had seen a price recovery this year after experiencing gloomy outlook for past few years. The revised outlook seen in this year could be attributed to the following reasons:- i. The companies within the steel industry had always been facing...
