KLK is amongst the top plantation companies
in Malaysia, with a land bank in excess of 243,000 hectares,
located in Peninsular Malaysia (70,000 hectares), Sabah (40,000
hectares) and Indonesia (133,000 hectares).
Oil palm is the predominant crop with an
annual production of 2.8 million tonnes of Fresh Fruit Bunches
(FFB) and which is expected to increase rapidly in the years
ahead as the vast new plantings in Sabah and Indonesia are
progressively brought into harvesting. Processing of the crop
is carried out in KLK's own mills and refineries into crude
palm oil, RBD palm olein and stearin, and kernel oil and cake.
The declining rubber area in Peninsular
Malaysia, in favour of oil palm, has been made up to an extent
by the new rubber area from KLK's plantations in Indonesia.
This will enable KLK to maintain a steady yearly production
of about 22,000 tonnes of premium SIR/SMR grades and latex
concentrate, meeting with the MS ISO 9002 standards. |