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M'SIAN TIMBER INDUSTRY SHOULD MOVE ON TO VALUE ADDING ACTIVITIES
From Choong En Han
SEOUL, April 12 (Bernama) -- To further spur development and growth, the
Malaysian timber industry should move on to provide more value-added activities
by learning from its foreign counterparts, globally.
"The timber industry in South Korea presents a good market for us as
technologically, South Korea is very advanced and I think the local business
sector can work with their Korean counterparts to generate more value-added
products for the market," said Malaysian Minister of Plantation Industries and
Commodities Bernard Dompok who is on a four-day working visit to South Korea and
Taiwan beginning April 10.
On Monday, the minister and his delegation visited the Korean Forest
Research Institute and glued laminated timber (glulam) manufacturer, Kyongmin
Industrial Co Ltd, to familiarise themselves with their Korean counterparts.
Founded in 1922, KFRI is South Korea's national agency responsible for
research on forest and forestry with the prime objective of promoting the
development of advanced and environmentally-friendly technology for forest
management.
He said the South Koreans have the advanced capabilities in producing glulam
timber and the local timber industry should go into the direction of value
addition by learning from their counterparts.
Dompok also revealed that the Korean government has requested Kyongmin
Industrial to research on producing glulam out of smaller trees chopped down for
the purpose of forest thinning.
"Forest thinning is essentially to give way for other trees to mature, when
the smaller trees reaches a certain age, they will be cut down, and the Koreans
are currently researching on how to manufacture these little quantity of timber
to glulam timber," he said.
In 2010, Malaysia's exports of timber and timber-related products to South
Korea amounted to RM1 billion, down 9.1 per cent, from RM1.1 billion
(US$0.37 billion) exported in 2009.
"We have the raw materials, and at the moment, we want to have the value
adding prospects for the local timber industry as it is a very important
industry with global exports generating about RM22 billion (US$7.33 billion) for
Malaysia annually," he said.
Dompok is scheduled to deliver a keynote address today at the
Malaysia-Korea Palm Oil Trade Fair and Seminar 2011.
Jointly organised by the Malaysian Palm Oil Council, Malaysian Palm Oil
Board and the Korean Society of Food Science and Technology, the Malaysia-Korea
POTS 2011 is a continuation of previous POTS series held previously in other
major importing countries including Turkey, Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.
SEOUL, April 12 (Bernama) -- To further spur development and growth, the
Malaysian timber industry should move on to provide more value-added activities
by learning from its foreign counterparts, globally.
"The timber industry in South Korea presents a good market for us as
technologically, South Korea is very advanced and I think the local business
sector can work with their Korean counterparts to generate more value-added
products for the market," said Malaysian Minister of Plantation Industries and
Commodities Bernard Dompok who is on a four-day working visit to South Korea and
Taiwan beginning April 10.
On Monday, the minister and his delegation visited the Korean Forest
Research Institute and glued laminated timber (glulam) manufacturer, Kyongmin
Industrial Co Ltd, to familiarise themselves with their Korean counterparts.
Founded in 1922, KFRI is South Korea's national agency responsible for
research on forest and forestry with the prime objective of promoting the
development of advanced and environmentally-friendly technology for forest
management.
He said the South Koreans have the advanced capabilities in producing glulam
timber and the local timber industry should go into the direction of value
addition by learning from their counterparts.
Dompok also revealed that the Korean government has requested Kyongmin
Industrial to research on producing glulam out of smaller trees chopped down for
the purpose of forest thinning.
"Forest thinning is essentially to give way for other trees to mature, when
the smaller trees reaches a certain age, they will be cut down, and the Koreans
are currently researching on how to manufacture these little quantity of timber
to glulam timber," he said.
In 2010, Malaysia's exports of timber and timber-related products to South
Korea amounted to RM1 billion, down 9.1 per cent, from RM1.1 billion
(US$0.37 billion) exported in 2009.
"We have the raw materials, and at the moment, we want to have the value
adding prospects for the local timber industry as it is a very important
industry with global exports generating about RM22 billion (US$7.33 billion) for
Malaysia annually," he said.
Dompok is scheduled to deliver a keynote address today at the
Malaysia-Korea Palm Oil Trade Fair and Seminar 2011.
Jointly organised by the Malaysian Palm Oil Council, Malaysian Palm Oil
Board and the Korean Society of Food Science and Technology, the Malaysia-Korea
POTS 2011 is a continuation of previous POTS series held previously in other
major importing countries including Turkey, Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.
