I hope impact analysis is done prior to this project development. I hope this will generate job opportunities for the local. I hope this will not put too much toxic waste on the river system.
Is this going to be the beginning of an era of productivity and development ? _______________________
Chinese rubber grower to build processing plants
Vientiane Times, 3 March 2010
A large Chinese rubber tree plantation company, Gao Shen, will spend about 6.8 billion kip (US$800,000) to build two rubber processing plants in Borikhamxay and Oudomxay provinces this year.
A rubber tree plantation in Borikhamxay province.
“The two projects will be completed by the end of this year and start processing rubber early next year,” said the company's Managing Director, Mr Wu Ya Fei, in a recent interview in Pakxan district, Borikhamxay province.
The company will invest US$450,000 in the Borikhamxay plant, and US $350,000 in Oudomxay, with both sites currently under land clearance.
Mr Wu Ya Fei said the Oudomxay plant will be cheaper than the Borikhamxay one because it is closer to China which makes equipment transportation easier.
The company will build the plant in Pakxan district because there are already large rubber plantations in nearby Borikhan, Thaphabath and Pakkading districts that have been run for many years.
“At present, they sell raw rubber to buyers in Thailand,” Mr Wu Ya Fei said. “However, we intend to buy and process that rubber once the plant is completed.”
The Borikhamxay plant will use three machines to deliver an initial processing capacity of 30 tonnes of rubber per month. The processed rubber will then be exported to a tyre factory in China.
Once the plant is completed, it will employ more than 50 local people and a team for purchasing rubber from farmers.
The Oudomxay plant will have a similar capacity to the one in Borikhamxay, and will also process for supply to the tyre factory.
“The market demands about 500,000 tonnes of processed rubber per year,” he said.
The company is currently growing about 600 hectares of rubber trees in Borikhan district, including about 200 hectares planted by local farmers.
It has earned a land concession from the government for 30 years with an investment of about 25.4 billion kip (US$3 million) for the plantation and now employs over 300 people.
It also supplies free saplings to farmers, a project which has been running for three years, and will see the trees ready to be processed by the plant by 2014.
They are also running a similar project in Oudomxay province, where about 350 hectares have been planted and will be ready for processing in 2012.
The company has also issued a proposal to the government with plans for a plantation of 1,000 hectares in Borikhan district, and is studying the viability of another expansion area in Vientiane province of about 2,400 hectares.
“These two expansion projects will be an investment of about 102 billion kip (US$12 million),” Mr Wu Ya Fei said.
So far about 400,000 hectares of rubber trees have been planted in Laos for the export of rubber while also supplying local market demand, Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Mr Thongmy Phomvixay said recently.
I hope they have wastewater treatment plant construct within their factories. Othewise, it is gonna be a big disaster for people living around that area.
I hope they have wastewater treatment plant construct within their factories. Othewise, it is gonna be a big disaster for people living around that area.
I know for fact that on this one particular company that i visited own by multiple foreigners this company do have wastewater treatment within the company and this was in 1995 i was impressed.
I hope they have wastewater treatment plant construct within their factories. Othewise, it is gonna be a big disaster for people living around that area.
Water treatment? You gotta joking! Even in China with stricter law they just pour untreated water down the river. Why do you think it'll be different in Laos?
I hope they have wastewater treatment plant construct within their factories. Othewise, it is gonna be a big disaster for people living around that area.
Water treatment? You gotta joking! Even in China with stricter law they just pour untreated water down the river. Why do you think it'll be different in Laos?
As long as lao government required putting such system is a good first step and it is up to the our governments to enforce accordingly.
chinese are not the only country pour untreated water down the rivers? its happened every where even here in the States because these business owners do not have moral obligations.
