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With another technological improvement Thai Gorilla Pulp Ltd. (TGP) increases its volume of production by 250 per cent and reduces its electric power consumption by 30 per cent just the same. With its new technology TGP meets the enormous demand for treeless paper pulp in Asia and assures a lasting improvement of the ecological balance of its pilot factory in Rayong.

As the first company worldwide TGP produces treeless paper pulp that is, as it has been proved regarding to quality and price, of the same standard as paper pulp made of wood. For this treeless paper pulp TGP uses the waste fibres of existing palm-oil plantations, a commodity which comes with harvesting palm-oil trees. This natural and renewable source could cover twelve per cent of the worldwide demand on paper.

This latest technological development allows TGP to increase its volume of production by 250 per cent to 40 tons of treeless paper pulp per day. At the same time the new plant reduces the electric power consumption of the factory by 30 per cent and avoids thousands of tons of carbon dioxide emissions per day because less and less green waste is burned unused. “We again have invested 600.000 dollars to make our factory even more efficient and ecological”, explains the CEO of Thai Gorilla Pulp, Markus Count Matuschka de Greiffenclau. “The demand for our treeless paper pulp is overwhelming; therefore this development was very important. Now we will be able to increase the production of treeless paper pulp continuously by building and licensing new factories.”

Until now, TGP has converted 25 tons of green waste into 16 tons of treeless paper pulp in its pilot factory in Rayong per day. The latest upgrade allows TGP to convert 60 tons of green waste into 40 tons of treeless paper pulp per day. “To produce just these 40 tons of paper pulp one normally would have to cut down more than 2.5 hectares of rain forest a day”, demonstrates de Greiffenclau. “Because our paper pulp waives the commodity wood completely, we now save 7.5 million square meters rain forest per year only with our single pilot factory in Rayong.”