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Members of the Board of Directors are as follows: Chairman: YB Tuan Haji Ahmad Haji Bujang Deputy Chairman: Vacant Board members (until 31st December 2011): Mr. Anthony Liaw Hajjah Normah Hj. Mohd. Sari Datuk George Sangkin Mr. Edmond Lo @ Joannes Mr. Hamild @ Hamid bin Hj. Awang Mr. Mohd. Gasing bin Hj. Saling Mr. Sumitah Hassan Mr. Motimbun Stujungkok Mr. Wetrom Bahanda @ Mohd. Fikri Ir. Mohd. Yunus Hamid Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry Sabah (ex-officio) Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance Sabah (ex-officio) Director, Department of Agriculture Sabah (ex-officio) General Manager, Datuk Harris Mathews Information in this page was last updated on 26 April, 2012.

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General Manager: LGIS top management: General Manager: Datuk Harris Mathews Direct line: +088-211630 | E-mail: gm.getah@sabah.gov.my Deputy General Manager (Schemes): Mr. Vincent Liew En That Direct line: +088-211350 | E-mail: vincentliew@sabah.gov.my Deputy General Manager (Finance): Mr. Kee Mohd. Nordin Abd. Jalil Direct line: +088-216469 | E-mail: keenordin@sabah.gov.my Deputy General Manager (Administration): Mr. Tarawi Hj. Rukot Direct line: +088-211370 | E-mail: Tarawi.Rukot@sabah.gov.my Deputy General Manager (Industrial Operations): Mr. Liau An Chuan Direct line: +088-210679 | E-mail: anchuan.liau@sabah.gov.my Deputy General Manager (Smallholders Development): Hj. Nordin Kassim Direct line: +088-212441 | E-mail: hjnordin@sabah.gov.my Information in this page was last updated on 1 December, 2011.

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Rubber Technology 101 RUBBER CHEMISTRY: The only "true" rubber is natural rubber from the latex of nearly 2000 different plants. However, the latex from the Hevea brasiliensis tree is the only important commercial source of natural rubber. All synthetic imitations and variations that are used in the "rubber" industry are elastomers but they are like rubber in their degree of elasticity. An elastomer is a macromolecular material that at room temperature can be stretched under low stress to at least twice its original length and, after release of stress, will return to its approximate original dimensions and shape. Elastomers as a class possess some basic characteristics. They are elastic, flexible, tough, and relatively impermeable in both water and air. What makes rubber and other elastomers unique? Certainly, we have other materials that are flexible, tough and impermeable, that leaves elasticity! What gives rubber its elastic properties? That is intricately linked to its molecular structure. For purposes of this discussion, we will examine the structure of natural rubber, realizing that most synthetic rubbers are similar in an essential manner that will be discussed later. Natural rubber is made up of macromolecules. What does that mean? The natural rubber molecule is made up of thousands of repeating units called isoprene units (see below), hence, we call this polyisoprene. The molecular formula for the isoprene unit is C5H8. These units are strung together as a "chain" to form the molecule and the correct formula for polyisoprene (the entire molecule) is (C5H8)X where X equals from 10,000 to 20,000. With tens of thousands of carbon and hydrogen atoms, it is obvious why they are called macromolecules. However, while this molecule is thousands of times larger than the molecules of an ordinary chemical substance (i.e. H2O) it is still much too small to be visible in the most powerful microscopes available.   POLYISOPRENE   A good analogy to help visualize how these molecules interact is to think of each macromolecule as a single strand of spaghetti in plate full of spaghetti. This, in essence, is the way the molecules are arranged in rubber when in its uncured state. In this state, they can be "slipped" apart without much effort. In this state rubber isn’t particularly useful. "How can I make this substance useful?" That’s the question facing Charles Goodyear and Thomas Hancock when they independently invented vulcanization in 1839.   VULCANIZATION: What Goodyear "discovered," was that when he mixed sulfur and heat with his natural rubber, he changed it. He changed it from a substance that became sticky and soft on hot days and that wouldn’t return to its original shape when stretched or pressed, to a substance that returned to shape and remain relatively unchanged in the hottest of weather. So how do sulfur molecules combine with polyisoprene molecules to cause the changes Goodyear observed? Now we will discuss that essential feature that most elastomers have in common. Even when an elastomer is a macromolecule made up of units other than isoprene, its repeating unit has one distinct feature in its molecular structure that enables it to be an elastomer. Notice that in the middle of the isoprene unit there are two carbon atoms linked together with two bonds while all the other bonds are singular. We refer to these as single or double bonds. These bonds allow elastomers to be elastic. They do this in two ways. First it allows the units to rotate about the single bonds and that gives the molecule flexibility. Secondly, the double bond is not very stable. With sufficient heat energy, one of the bonds can be "disconnected" from one of the carbon atoms. We refer to macromolecules with these double bonds as being "unsaturated" These double bonds are common to most synthetic elastomers. When one of the bonds is disconnected from one of the carbon atoms the "loose end" is an open "site" that is available to attach with a different atom. All the double bonds are considered "potential sites." When we combine elemental sulfur with rubber, the disconnected site will omattach to a sulfur atom. Of what value is this attachment to changing this uncured and relatively useless material into the very useful and unique material that we work with every day? The answer is that it is of no value until that same sulfur atom attaches to a similar site on another polyisoprene macromolecule. This reaction of "crosslinking" of two polyisoprene macromolecules with sulfur atoms is referred to as vulcanization. Now we have come to our explanation of how the double bond helps give elastomers their elasticity. Think of that plate of spaghetti now; where those strands cross one another vulcanization occurs. This gives elastomers their elasticity. As we try to slip those stands apart the crosslinks resist the movement and forces the strands back to their original position after the stress is relieved. Vulcanization occurs at approximately one out of every 200 potential sites in an average sulfur cure system. VULCANIZATION WHEN: WE REFER TO IT AS: X = 1 monosulfidic X = 2 disulfidic X > 2 polysulfidic All vulcanized rubber will contain some of all of the above types of vulcanized crosslinks. The ratio of one type of crosslink versus the others varies from cure system to cure system. We name these cure systems according to their ratio (see below.) Cure Systems, Conventional versus Efficient Vulcanization   Conventional Semi-EV EV Poly & Disulfidic, % 95 50 20 Monosulfidic, % 5 50 80 Briefly speaking, we use EV and semi-EV systems to gain heat aging and compression set resistance but give up low temperature crystallization resistance and higher extension ratios. Sulfur is not the only vulcanizing agent that is used and not all elastomers can be crosslinked with sulfur. The most common alternative to sulfur is organic peroxide. Peroxide is also used to crosslink "saturated" (not having a double carbon bond) macromolecules. Peroxide releases a free radical that enables the formation of a carbon-carbon bond between molecules. These vulcanizates have even greater thermal stability than sulfur EV systems. This reaction is often erroneously referred to as vulcanization but only a sulfur to carbon link can be referred to as vulcanization. The carbon to carbon bond is simply known as a crosslink.       © ALL CONTENTS COPYRIGHT  Rubber Development, Inc. 1999-2000 www.rubberdevelopment.com  

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RUBBER PLANTATION The shrinking of world’s rubber area, high increase in petroleum prices, expansion of the world’s automobile industry and growth in the medical field, gradually give rubber, which experienced its bleak era for the past 10 to 15 years, a new lease of life. While oil palm reigns as the main crop of Sime Darby Plantation, the company is reducing the Group’s dependence on a mono-crop business with the planting of rubber. To date Sime Darby Plantation owns 8,086 hectares of rubber plantation concentrated within the rubber cluster in Negeri Sembilan, Melaka and north Johor namely in: Bukit Pilah Estate (Negeri Sembilan) Pertang Estate (Negeri Sembilan) St Helier/Juasseh Estate (Negeri Sembilan) Bradwall Estate (Johor) Sungei Sabaling Estate (Negeri Sembilan) Sungei Bahru Estate-(Negeri Sembilan) Welch Estate (north Johor) Sungei Senarut Estate (north Johor) Apart from the estates, Sime Darby Plantation also owns a latex concentrate factory in Sungei Senarut Estate (SD Lates Batu Anam) and a SMR rubber factory in Tangkah. Sime Darby’s associate company Muang Mai Guthrie Public Company Limited, involves in the mid stream rubber processing, owns two factories in Phuket and Surat Province, Thailand, producing primarily latex concentrate, skim block rubber and epoxidised natural rubber (ENR). These various rubber products are sold to local rubber manufacturers as well as exported all over the world. Sime Darby’s rubber plantation has been certified Well-Managed Plantation by the Forest Stewardship Council since 2002. Prospects and Strategic Plan Sime Darby Plantation takes the development in rubber industry as a positive sign that the industry is stabilising itself. The company is leveraging its current strength and recognises rubber as one of the core businesses, capable of contributing significantly to the Group. Sime Darby Plantation owns the necessary expertise, resources and technology in production and processing of rubber as well as strong market access and reputation in respect to rubber business. The positive development in the rubber industry also gives Sime Darby Plantation the confidence to expand its plantation size. Sime Darby Plantation has identified some areas in Malaysia, South East Asia and Africa for expansion.

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IBRAHIM ALI BLEW 200-300 MILLION THAT THE GOVT GAVE HIM & BLAMES PR FOR BEING POOR Date: Monday, April 12, 2010, 4:44 PM By: Wan Hamidi   Umno, the Malay Chamber of Commerce, Perkasa, Ibrahim Ali, and whatnot are shouting, ranting, raving, screaming and hollering about 'nasib Melayu' or the plight of the Malays, in particular the Malays of Penang. I don't know what Ibrahim Ali was doing back in the mid-1970s but judging from the age of many of those others in the crowd I think many of them tak sunat lagi back in the mid-1970s. Tak sunat lagi means you are so young that you are not circumcised yet and your little dick still has its foreskin.     Yes, back in the mid-1970s -- 35 years or so ago when I was still in my 20s and not even 30 yet -- I was already fighting to improve the lot of the Malays. And 35 years ago those shouting, ranting, raving, screaming and hollering today were either too damn young or were not even born yet. We realised even back then that if something were not done the Malays would be left out. We realised that unless something were done now, 35 years ago, the Malays would be left behind. So we sat down with various Malay leaders and those who walk in the corridors of power -- the Prime Minister included -- to plan and chart the future of the Malays. And we did this for more than twenty years from the mid-1970s to the mid-   1990s before I decided it was a lost cause and that I had better move on to other things. The problem we faced was as what the then Minister of Trade and Industry Rafidah Aziz said: Melayu mampu daya maju tapi tak mampu daya tahan. This came from the Minister herself and means the Malays can be viable but can't be sustainable. Malays can achieve success but can't sustain the success. The Minister then revealed details and lamented about all the wealth the government gave the Malays in the form of land, concessions, permits, 'pink slips' on new stock exchange listings, and whatnot, which, if the Malays had kept, would mean the Malays would have far exceeded the 30% target of the New Economic Policy. But the Malays did not keep this wealth. The Malays sold it. The land, concessions, permits, 'pink slips' on new stock exchange listings, and whatnot, were all sold. So the Malay holding reduced and ended up in the hand of the non-Malays. This was what troubled the government, the Malay leaders, those who walk in the corridors of power, and us in the Malay Chamber of Commerce. So they now lament about how left behind the Malays in Penang are. They should chart the progression of the Malays in Penang from 224 years ago until today and analyse at what point it went up and went down again. Were the Malays driven out? Were the Malays pushed out? Or did the Malays sell out? And why and how did the Malays sell out? There is such a thing called the law of supply and demand. There is such a thing called market forces. There is such a thing called willing buyer, willing seller. When there is a demand there will be a seller. And since there was a demand for land in Penang then for sure the landowners would sell. It is all about making a profit. So Penang developed. It became known as the Pearl of the Orient. So the capitalists moved in, as capitalists always do anywhere in the world where there is money to be made. And the Malays saw the route to easy and quick cash available to them. So they sold their land for a lot of money and moved on to another place where the land was cheaper. Now they could have their cake and could eat it too. They sold their small piece of land in Penang for a lot of money and bought an even bigger piece of land, say in Kedah, for a small amount of money and still had a lot of money left to go to Mekah, send their kids to university, and whatnot. Today, many of those old folks and landowners of the 1960s and 1970s are dead. They are no longer alive. Their land in Penang had been sold off long before they died. And their children and grandchildren no longer own land in Penang . This is because the old folks had sold it off when they were still young or before they were born. Today, the Malays are angry because the land in Penang is owned mainly by the non-Malays. But this is so not because the non-Malays stole the land but because the Malays sold it for a lot of money. It is what any property owner would do when the property they bought for RM100 two world wars ago can now fetch RM500,000 on the open market. Only a fool would turn down RM500,000 in profit. The more the Malays scream about being left behind in Penang the more the Malays would look stupid and would be revealing their weaknesses. Back in the 1970s the government already sighed and lamented that come the year 2000, the Malays would still be left with nothing. We can help the Malays, the government said. We can do, what you want us to do. But if the Malays just sell off whatever we give them, then come 2000 the Malays would still end up with nothing. And then the Malays would turn round and blame the government. The Malays would say the government does not care about them. They will never admit that the government did so much for the Malays but the Malays chose quick cash instead of sustaining and maintaining for the long term what the government gave them. Say what you like about Rafidah Aziz and those many of the 1970s and 1980s era. They did try and they tried very hard. I should know because I was part of it. But we all knew that it was a futile effort. We can try to help the Malays to get rich. But they will not stay rich. They will sell all for quick cash and then will become poor again. And then they will blame the government because they are poor. This was anticipated 35 years ago back in the 1970s. And the government told us this would happen. But we still tried. And now it is proven that the government was right, 35 years ago. Today, Pakatan Rakyat is ruling Penang . But Penang was founded 224 years ago back in 1786.   Tomorrow, Pakatan Rakyat would have ruled Penang for exactly two years. For 222 years before that it was not Pakatan Rakyat that was ruling Penang . But Pakatan Rakyat is being blamed for 224 years of Penang history. Yes, Perkasa, the new 'Malay rights' movement headed by Ibrahim Ali. Ask Ibrahim Ali how much the government gave him since the 1980s. In the 1970s when I was already fighting for the Malays he was still a student. Ask Ibrahim Ali to total up everything the government gave him the last 30 years or so. That figure should come to at least RM200 million-RM300 million. How much does Ibrahim Ali still have left? Can he even find RM1 million in his bank account? Where did all that hundreds of millions go? Yes, ask Ibrahim Ali to ask himself all these questions. Then he will understand what happened to the Malays. What happened to the Malays is exactly what happened to him. He sold off everything and spent all the money just like those other Malays. And now he blames the Chinese because he is broke.