Our Company began operation in 1958 milling and refining copra. The oil extracted was used to make laundry soap and cooking oil. The earliest branded products then were Axe and Labour, names that stood Our Company work ethic. From this humble beginning, Our Company progressively diversified into the manufacture of toilet soap (under the brand Orchid), margarines and shortening using palm oil as raw material. In 1970 Our Company becoming the pioneer of the palm oil refining industry when it built Malaysia&＃039;s first oil fractionation plant to manufacture cooking oil. Recognizing the potential of palm oil, Our Company moved upstream and established plantations in both East and Peninsular Malaysia.