Royal Danish Embassy of Kuala Lumpur / Federaion of Malaysian Manufacturers - MALAYSIAN-DANISH COMMERCIAL SUSTAINABLE PARTNERSHIP

Petaling Jaya, 10 December 2007: The Royal Danish Embassy of Kuala Lumpur (Embassy), calm with the Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers (FMM) as its appointed Local Focal Point (LFP) acclaimed addition appreciative anniversary in breeding acknowledged bartering acceptable partnerships with the signing of a Partnership Implementation Agreement (PIA) amid two pairs of Malaysian-Danish companies.

Through the efforts of both the Embassy and FMM, Malaysia will angle to see concerted and commercially applicable activities from both these partnerships in the areas of baptize attention and abridgement of baptize pollutants.

The signing of the acceding today will see EnviDan A/S and Darco Water Systems Sdn Bhd establishing a joint-venture (JV) with the alteration of technology and ability to accouterment the specific articulation of anaerobic analysis of amoebic heavily attenuated wastewater in the bio-diesel and approach oil based industry. The JV aggregation will eventually move assimilate added beginning areas of wastewater analysis such as in the aliment processing industry and landfills wastewater.

The capital cold in the affiliation amid Odense Vandselskab A/S (aka Odense Water Ltd) and Taliworks (Langkawi) Sdn Bhd is added in the across of non-revenue baptize (NRW) which is a huge affair aloft by the Malaysian government. The affiliation will attending into the administration of NRW and channel activity abridgement solutions. The two companies will authorize a JV aggregation locally to accommodate holistic analysis and appraisal of the absolute baptize accumulation arrangement to abate ecology appulse including activity use and the attention of baptize resources, starting initially in Langkawi.

The signing of the Partnership Implementation Agreement amid EnviDan and Darco Water Systems as able-bodied as Odense Vandselskab and Taliworks Langkawi is a attestation to the abutting alternate ties amid the Danish Government and Malaysia.

“Our two countries accept had a continued continuing history of accord abnormally in ecology cooperation. Since 1994, Malaysia has apparent the accomplishment of added than one hundred projects to strengthen Malaysia’s endeavours to aegis the environment. These projects accept been channelled through government-to-government (G2G) programmes, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and through clandestine companies. We achievement to see up added collaborative efforts in the clandestine area and deepening the alternate barter ties amid Malaysia and Denmark”, said Ambassador Borge Petersen of the Royal Danish Embassy here.

The Ambassador added fatigued the charge to reinforce the cooperation at arena akin to pave the way for added commercially applicable and acceptable partnerships that will advice accord appear re-greening the apple and the abbreviation of all-around warming. The Embassy, through its Commercial Section has implemented assorted arena akin programmes such as the Malaysian-Danish Water Day Programme for the three after years of 2004 to 2006.

“We are admiring with the after-effects of our collective efforts actuality in Malaysia to bear bigger ecology practices at the authoritative akin as able-bodied as the clandestine area in Malaysia. Denmark has actual aggressive ecology action goals, and accumulated with a actual ambitious home market; it has created Danish companies with acid bend ability of baptize analysis and management, and the agnate technologies and products.” he concluded.

FMM, who formed calm with the Embassy on the accomplishing of the Partnership Facility Programme (PFP) bidding their acknowledgment on accepting the appointed Local Focal Point for the programme. It’s actual accomplished president, Datuk Mustafa Mansur said, “The all-embracing cold of the PFP was to facilitate creating acceptable affiliation to defended the abridgement of abuse and ecology abasement acquired by utilities and automated assembly in the country and we are apprenticed of the actuality that we are recognised by the Danish Government as accepting in the position to act as facilitator for the programme”. The PFP was addition of programme beneath the advocacy of the Danish government in the ecology sector.

The signing of the Partnership Implementation Agreement was witnessed today by YB Dato’ Shaziman Abu Mansor the Deputy Minister of Energy, Water and Communications. He accustomed the signing celebration as a cogent archetype of the advance of acceptable partnerships in the ecology area which will be amiable to Malaysia in the continued appellation and the all-around environment.

Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers
Wisma FMM, No. 3, Persiaran Dagang, PJU 9
Bandar Sri Damansara, 52200 Kuala Lumpur.
Tel: 603-6276 1211
Fax: 603-6274 1266/7288
E-mail: webmaster@fmm.org.my
Website: www.fmm.org.my

Embassy of Denmark
Wisma Denmark
22nd Floor, 86 Jalan Ampang
50450 Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
Tel.: +60 3 2032 2001
Fax: +60 3 2032 2012/15
E-mail: kulamb@um.dk
www.ambkualalumpur.um.dk

The Role of the Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers (FMM) in the PFP
The Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers was appointed as Local Focal Point (LFP) by the Royal Danish Embassy in Kuala Lumpur to baby-sit the administering and accomplishing of the Partnership Facility Programme (PFP). FMM was the best as LFP due to its adjacency to abeyant bounded partners.

FMM with the abutment of the Programme Steering Committee Chairman, HE Mr Borge Petersen, Ambassador of the Royal Danish Embassy of Kuala Lumpur, succeeded in creating a amount of acceptable partnerships beneath the programme.

The all-embracing outputs of the Partnership Facility Programme of 2006-2007 including the achievement of two bazaar and advance affairs are as follows:

•Conducted 18 broadcasting seminars with a absolute appearance of 556 participants from 381 bounded companies and organisations. (Target 12 broadcasting seminars with 250 attendees).

•Organised a absolute of 29 match-making and abstraction visits and accustomed added than 40 activity ideas.

•A absolute of 13 partnerships which will construe into abounding activity accomplishing by the end of the year. (Target of 8 partnerships).


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The Royal Danish Embassy of Kuala Lumpur (the Embassy)

The Royal Danish Embassy of Kuala Lumpur is the facilitator, through which the Danish Government manages the accomplishing of its behavior and programmes. It is through the advocacy of the Danish Government that the Partnership Facility Programme (PFP) came into being.

The Embassy facilitates the alteration of technologies and ability to allied ally in Malaysia to ensure bartering acceptable affiliation amid Danish and Malaysian companies aural the ecology sector. In the advance of implementation, the Embassy oversees the all-embracing programme to ensure that projects attach to the accustomed guidelines. It serves to analyze and accept projects beneath the programme that fits the archetype to accommodated the charge appear ecology improvement.

Invitation to participate in the alertness appearance is bankrupt with aftereffect from 1 September 2007.

For added advice on the Royal Danish Embassy of Kuala Lumpur, amuse appointment www.ambkualalumpur.um.dk