Univanich has been trialing the use of drones Univanich has been trialing the use of drones to carry out spraying of fungicide and foliar fertiliser in our nurseries. The benefits of using drones significantly reduces our risks in Health and Safety, and allows us to make improvements in our productivity at our nursery operations. Most importantly, is the significant improvement in the quality of seedling that we can offer to our customers.

A new Nursery was constructed at Topi A new Nursery was constructed at Topi with a capacity of 300,000 seedlings per year. This year’s rally in prices is encouraging farmers to plant more palms and replant old stands. The Topi nursery will allow Univanich to meet this demand.

A fourth sterilizer was added to the Pabon factory A fourth sterilizer was added to the Pabon factory to allow for increased milling capacity of the factory, during the peak cropping period. This will increase the milling throughput from 30 TFFB/hr to 45TFFB/hr. This will enable the factory to keep the ramp balance at a lower level, and allow for purchasing of fruit to continue unhindered in the peak crop period.

The installation of larger 25 tph screw press at Topi The installation of larger 25 tph screw press at Topi to improve efficiency in high cropping periods. This will allow greater throughput from the normal 60 TFFB/hr to 70 TFFB/hr during periods of peak production.

The economizer at CVP Factory was reconditioned The economizer at CVP Factory was reconditioned. An economizer uses the waste heat, from the flue gases, to heat up the boiler feedwater which lowers the energy required to produce steam for the milling process. This has greatly improved the steam pressure quality for the milling process and allows us to be more efficient with our fuel. We have lowered our dependency on using electricity from the grid, and have been able to sell our excess fibre to third party buyers.

The Installation of two sludge separator machines at Lamthap Factory This is to help reduce our oil losses by recovering the residual oil from the waste water, empty fruit bunches liquor, and sterilizer condensate. This oil recovery will help to improve our factory efficiency.