Batu Kawan Bhd.

Batu Kawan Berhad, an investment holding company, cultivates and processes palm and rubber products in Malaysia, the Far East, the Middle East, South East Asia, Southern Asia, Europe, North and South America, Australia, Africa, and internationally. It operates through four segments: Plantation, Manufacturing, Property Development, and Investment Holding/Others. The company manufactures and sells methyl chloride, oleochemicals, alcohol ether sulphates, alcohol sulphates and sulphonic acids, and basic organic chemicals from agricultural products; and manufactures and markets coagulants, industrial and specialty chemicals, soap noodles, industrial amides, polymer products, sulphuric acid, sulphur derivatives, calcium nitrate, methyl esters, and glycerine, as well as chlor-alkali chemicals comprising caustic soda, hydrochloric acid, liquid chlorine, sodium hypochlorite, and ferric chloride; and parquet flooring products. It also involved in letting of storage warehouse facilities; operating biogas capture plants; plantation and kernel crushing; agronomic service and research; investment, development, management, and renting of properties; manufacturing of biodiesel, palm phytonutrients, and other palm derivatives; production and distribution of fatty alcohols and derivatives, fatty acids, fatty esters, and other chemicals; management of plantations; and manufacturing and distribution of nonionic surfactants and esters. In addition, the company offers logistics services related to palm products; markets refined palm oil products; manufactures and trades in rubber products; sells pharmaceutical and bio-pharmaceutical intermediates and fine chemicals; stores and distributes bulk liquids; operates holiday bungalows; manufactures jams and preserves; extracts crude palm oil; and farming, trustee, offshore captive insurance, and general transportation and workshop services. The company was incorporated in 1965 and is headquartered in Ipoh, Malaysia.