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There is no obligation on your behalf to act on any recommendations, but in these times of fewer highly qualified Financial Advisers working in the the Pension market, it may be worth assessing where your retirement planning is at and where it is heading. Access to a Pension Specialist is predominantly a web based service that allows us to refer you for pension advice. The pension specialist will gather all the information from your existing pension provider(s) before analysing and posting a Pension Information Report for you to consider. Similarly a Pensions Advice Report is issued by post to you. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06611647580302868360noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636492821088963579.post-38429559071994670162013-02-27T02:58:00.002-08:002013-02-27T04:27:10.302-08:00A Brief History of Scented Wood and Oud OilI wanted to share this article as it provides an insight into the historical trade and reference that is interesting and current.<br />
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Several years ago, in the perfume and incense market in the old city of Sana'a in Yemen, I caught sight of a large apothecary jar full of wood chips. The jar sat on a dusty shelf, tucked away in a dark corner of the stall owned by Mohammed Hamoud al-Kalagi. When I asked him to show me its contents, he placed the jar on the front counter and pulled out a chip of wood. Mohammed called the wood <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em> (pronounced <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">ood</em>), a name I did not recognize, but it looked very familiar. I could hardly contain my growing sense of excitement as I examined it closely.</div>
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Mohammed placed a tiny sliver of the wood on the end of a lit cigarette. Within moments we were inhaling a rich, sweet, woody fragrance that I had first smelled in the Borneo rain forest 15 years earlier. At that time, I was traveling with a group of nomadic hunter-gatherers known as Penan. We were looking for herbs used in traditional medicine, but one day the Penan cut down a tree and collected pockets of fragrant wood from within the trunk and branches. They called these dark patches of wood gaharu. I rubbed a small piece of gaharu between my palms to warm it, and it smelled like cedar and sandalwood, but with subtle fragrance notes of roses and balsam. For years I had wondered what the wood was used for and where it was sent after leaving Borneo. The Penan thought gaharu might be used in Chinese medicine, because it was the upriver Chinese traders that bought it, but apart from that, they were mystified as to why anyone would want to buy those gnarly bits of wood.</div>
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Mohammed al-Kalagi, who thought that <i style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</i> came only from India, was the first person to help me begin to unravel the long and convoluted history of this scented wood. He told me it was burned as incense throughout the Islamic world, and an oil was extracted from it that retailed for nearly $20 a gram ($500 an ounce) as a perfume.</div>
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When I told Mohammed that the <i style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">gaharu</i> collectors in Borneo considered the wood to have only a modest barter value, he laughed and recited lines that he attributed to the eighth-century Egyptian jurist and poet Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i:</div>
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And <i style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</i>, in its country of origin,</div>
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A few days after my visit, I walked through the narrow streets of old Sana'a to the home of Yemeni friends. The family lived in a tastefully restored stone tower house in the Turkish Quarter, and during the meal that night I discovered that <i style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</i> has domestic uses beyond simple incense: A small chip placed amid the tobacco in the bowl of the <i style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">mada'ah</i>, or water pipe, sweetens the smoke and keeps the pipe fresh. And although <i style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</i> is generally considered more of a man's scent, it is also used by women who place bits of the wood in a<em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">mabkharah</em>, a small, hand-held charcoal brazier used to scent clothes; it is also used to perfume hair and skin. My host explained that at women's get-togethers it would be considered strange not to pass around a <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">mabkharah</em> of smoldering <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em> or other incense so the female guests could perfume themselves.</div>
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"When you walk by a woman on the street and you smell <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em>, you know that she is from a good family," the husband told me. "It is a sign of wealth, good breeding, refinement and status."</div>
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Similarly, when Yemeni men congregate, it is customary for them to pass around a<em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">mabkharah</em> of <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em>. Each man opens his jacket and censes his shirt and underarms, then his face and his mashedah, or head scarf, if he is wearing one. The <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">mabkharah</em> is always passed counter-clockwise, and each man wafts the smoke onto himself and says, "God's blessings and peace on the Prophet Muhammad." <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'Ud</em> is burned ceremonially at weddings, too, and the oil is sometimes used to perfume the body of the dead before burial.</div>
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In Yemen, the price and quality of <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em> varies considerably: At an average wedding party in Sana'a it is considered appropriate to spend about $30 to $50 by burning 50 or 100 grams (two or three ounces) of one of the less expensive grades of <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em>, but for the well-heeled, 30 grams (a single ounce) of a superior grade can set one back $250 to $300.</div>
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Before I left the dinner party that night, my host placed a tiny drop of <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em> oil on the front of my shirt and explained that the fragrance would survive several washings—which it did.<em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'Ud</em> oil is often placed on older men's beards or younger men's jacket lapels so that during the traditional cheek-to-cheek greetings its sweet, woody scent dominates.</div>
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Although the southern Arabian Peninsula has been long identified with aromatics, few Westerners are familiar with <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em>, a word that means simply "wood" in Arabic. This obscurity is partly due to <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em> rarity and cost, but it is also a matter of varying taste and differing cultural traditions. During the Hajj, for example, Muslim pilgrims from around the world come to Makkah and Madinah, where many are introduced to the scent of <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em>, which is burned in the Great Mosque as well as in many other mosques throughout Saudi Arabia.<em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'Ud</em> produces a fragrance that is not soon forgotten, and for this reason small packets of <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em>chips are a common souvenir to take home from the Hajj.</div>
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In various other places in the Islamic world, <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em> is burned to help celebrate the important events of everyday life. In Tunisia, for example, <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em> is burned on the third, seventh and 40th days following the birth of a child, a time when the mother traditionally remains at home while female relatives and friends come to visit.</div>
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Throughout Malaysia and Indonesia, <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em> is called by the name I first heard in Borneo,<em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">gaharu</em>, a Malay word derived from the much older Sanskrit term <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">agaru</em>, meaning "heavy." The scented wood was given that name because, indeed, a high-quality piece of <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">gaharu</em>will sink in water. The <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">Susruta Samhita</em>, one of the "great three" texts of Ayurvedic medicine, describes how people of the Ganges plain used smoldering <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">agaru</em> for worship, as perfume and to fumigate surgical wounds. In those times, <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">agaru</em> came largely from the tree<em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">Aquilaria agallocha</em>, which was found in the foothills of Assam.</div>
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In the 16th century, the Portuguese, who were actively trading in Goa, Malacca and Macao, adapted the word <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">agaru</em> to <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">pao d'aguila</em>, or "eagle wood"—which at least had a meaning in Portuguese, though there is no connection between eagles and <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em>. In the English-speaking world today, the most common terms for <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em> are aloeswood or agarswood; this last word preserves a clear link to the original Sanskrit.</div>
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The best grade of <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em> is hard, nearly black and very heavy. In general, <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em> becomes inferior as it appears lighter in tone, flecked with diminishing amounts of resin. The only truly reliable way to test for quality, however, is to burn a small bit and evaluate the complexity and richness of the smoldering wood. <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'Ud</em> oil can be taste-tested: Touch a bit to your tongue, and a bitter taste points to high quality.</div>
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Historians are uncertain when <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em> first reached the Middle East. There are several references to "aloes" in the Old Testament, and estimates by historians of China Friedrich Hirth and W.W. Rockhill put the date as far back as the 10th century BC. This was when King Solomon began trade with the south Arabian Sabaean kingdom, which was already trading with merchants on the Malabar (western) coast of India. (See Aramco World, March/April 1998.) Written accounts of Arab and Chinese travelers and merchants that mention it date to more recent times, approximately the first century of our era, a time of accelerating trade among the Arabian Peninsula, the Malabar coast and China that was made possible by the exploitation of the seasonal monsoon winds across the Indian Ocean. At this time, frankincense and myrrh from Oman and the Hadhramaut region of southern Arabia were being traded in the Far East, so it seems reasonable to assume that a reciprocal trade in <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em> would have traveled on the same maritime routes.</div>
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The Chinese role in the <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em> trade has been significant since the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220), when Imperial perfume blenders used it along with cloves, musk, costus-root oil and camphor. Like the Indians, the Chinese named the wood for its density, calling it <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">cb'en hsiang</em>, "the incense that sinks in water." In those days, <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em> was sorted into as many as 20 different grades. Responding to the increasing domestic and international demand for <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em>, Chinese traders ventured into Annam, now part of Vietnam, where they found top-quality trees in abundance. This new source of supply allowed them to become wholesale dealers and middlemen, and to this day they retain this position worldwide.</div>
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Arab and Persian traders had established settlements on the outskirts of Canton as early as 300, and a Chinese traveler named Fa-Hien noted the riches of the Arab <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em> traders from the Hadhramaut and Oman who lived comfortably in Ceylon. The Greek geographer Cosmas Indicopleustes, writing in the sixth century, also noted that the China-Ceylon-Middle East trade included large shipments of <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em>.</div>
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In his book <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">Silsilat al-Tawarikh</em> (<em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">Chain of Chronicles</em>), Zayd ibn Hassan of Siraf (now in Iran) tells of the experiences of two mnth-century traders, one Ibn Wahab of Basra and another named Suleyman. Although they traveled at slightly different times, both reported that the price and availability of <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em> in both Basra and Baghdad was much affected by frequent shipwrecks and by pirate attacks on trading ships. Their roughly similar routes went from the Arabian Gulf to the Maldives, Ceylon, the Nicobar Islands and then on to Canton by way of the Straits of Malacca and the South China Sea. At the time, the round-trip took at least two years, for the traders had to wait for seasonal winds, and customs formalities and the complexities of doing business in China consumed a good deal of time. Hassan relates that in Canton, Suleyman saw Arab and Persian traders playing a board game that appears to have been similar to backgammon: Occasionally the playing pieces were made of rhinoceros horn or ivory, but most commonly they were carved from fragrant<em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em>.</div>
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Reading up on the history of the 12th- and 13th-century Arab-Chinese sea trade, I also came upon the <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">Chu-fan-chi</em>, a trade manual written by Chau Ju-kua, who was a customs official in the southern Chinese province of Kwangtung in the mid-13th century. In the text he mentions that the search for <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em> had intensified to the point that it was being collected from Hainan Island, parts of present-day Vietnam, lands about the Malay Peninsula, Cambodia and the islands of Sumatra and Java. By this time, he observed, it had become an established custom for well-to-do Muslims to wake up, bathe and perfume themselves with<em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em> smoke before going to the mosque for the morning prayer.</div>
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In the early 14th century, Ibn Battuta described a visit to Ceylon where during a visit to Sultan Ayri Shakarwati he was shown "a bowl as large as a man's hand, made of rubies, containing oil of aloes." Ibn Battuta also mentioned that in Muslim lands every <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em> tree was private property, and that the best trees grew in Qamara, or Cambodia. (See <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">Saudi Aramco World</em>, July/August 2000.) In Saudi Arabia today, <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud kambudi</em>—Cambodian aloeswood—is still usually the most treasured and costly variety.</div>
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Isaac H. Burkill, in his 1935 <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">Dictionary of the Economic Products of the Malay Peninsula</em>, described <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em> in scientific terms. It is an aromatic resin deposit found in certain species of <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">Aquilaria</em> trees, especially <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">Aquilaria malaccensis</em>, whose species name recalls the days when the <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em> trade was centered in Malacca and dominated by the Portuguese. Burkill explains that the resin is produced by the tree as an immune response to a fungus (<em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">Phialophora parasitica</em>) that invades the tree and, over many years, spreads through it. It is these diseased sections of the tree that are collected by people in the jungles of Southeast Asia.</div>
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To better understand the modern trade cycle from Southeast Asia to Middle Eastern homes and mosques, I returned to Borneo and traveled upriver to talk again with the Penan tribesmen who make their living collecting <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em>, which they call <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">gaharu</em>.</div>
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The Penan, I learned, recognize seven types of <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">gaharu</em>. To collect it they paddle up small tributaries by dugout canoe, and then climb the slopes of remote mountains to locate the best trees. A gathering journey can take a week or more. Once a likely looking <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">pohon kayu gaharu</em> (a "gaharu-wood tree") has been found, they make a series of shallow, exploratory cuts into its trunk, branches and roots; they cut it down only when they are persuaded the tree has the fungus and will yield a reasonable amount of good <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">gaharu</em>. If the tree contains only low grades of <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">gaharu</em>, they will often let it grow for another few years before retesting it. If they do decide to cut it down, they will spend days extracting the <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">gaharu</em> and cleaning it with smaller knives. Traditionally, the Penan used <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">gaharu</em>themselves to treat stomach aches and fevers, and as an insect repellent, but now they sell or trade all they find.</div>
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In the backwaters of Borneo, the Penan sell the very best <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">gaharu</em> for about $400 a kilogram, or approximately $12 an ounce. They usually sell to local Chinese traders who stockpile it until they have enough to send to wholesalers and bigger middlemen in Singapore. The Penan claim that gaharu is getting more difficult to find because large-scale logging operations have destroyed many of the hill forests where the <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">gaharu</em> trees are found. If a Penan group has good luck, it might collect a kilo (35 oz) of average-quality gaharu in three or four days—but it is increasingly common for them to return with nothing, or with only the lowest grades.</div>
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Thirty years ago Hong Kong played an important role in the <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em> trade, but today the international hub is Singapore. There, the wholesale business is dominated by Chinese traders who receive <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em> from agents scattered across Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Thailand, Borneo, Hainan Island and, most recently, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. C. P. Ng, owner of Buan Mong Heng, a emporium on North Bridge Road, is Singapore's undisputed <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em>king. He tells me that his best <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em> sells for $5000 to $10,000 per kilogram ($2275-$4545/lb). At present, the rarest and most expensive type, known as Keenam, comes from Vietnam; it must be stored in a cool place to keep its scent from deteriorating. In Irian Jaya alone, he says, more than 50,000 part-time collectors supply some 30 collection centers. Throughout the Chinese community in Singapore, he says, people use <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em> as incense in the home, for worship and during marriage ceremonies. He also explains that it can be taken with herbs to cure a stomach ache, and that the sweet smell is a cure for insomnia. "A tea made from <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em>will warm the body and restore youthful vigor to older men," he says.</div>
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In Singapore, <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em> is graded in descending quality from Super AA, which is weighed out on a jeweler's scale, to Super A, Super, and lesser grades numbered 1 through 8. The lowest quality, called <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">kandulam</em> in Malay, is used to make incense sticks; it sells for roughly three cents a gram ($1 per oz). The value of <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em> shipped out of Singapore each year has been estimated to exceed $1.2 billion.</div>
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In the Middle East and in Borneo I never saw more than small amounts of <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em>, amounting to a few pounds at most, but Singapore was different. There I visited the Nk Kittai warehouse, where cardboard boxes packed with <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em> reached tall ceilings and wheelbarrows and shovels were the tools of choice to move quantities that perfumed the entire surrounding neighborhood. The owner, C. F. Chong, waited on buyers from India, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and even Japan. In Japan, <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em> is used in a complex fragrance guessing game called <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">koh-do</em>, part of the ceremonial appreciation of incense adopted from the Chinese, who still use the expression wenxiang, "listening to the incense."</div>
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The fragrance in the hot warehouse was overpowering, and as I wandered the narrow aisles surrounded by a fortune in scented wood, I saw <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em> logs as thick as my thigh and nearly three meters (10') long. Workers sat on the floor cleaning up pieces of <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em> with modified rubber-tapping knives. When I remarked that it must be a risk to store so much<em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em> in one place, Chong replied that he, like other dealers, kept his very best <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em> locked up in vaults.</div>
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Out on the warehouse floor, buyers specified the type of <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em> they wanted by region and quality, and then a worker would dump a pile at the buyer's feet so that he could hand-select the individual pieces. "This is an on-the-spot business," said Chong. "Each piece has to be evaluated."</div>
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Each buyer's selection was weighed, and as all of the buyers that morning were old customers, only a minimal amount of haggling led to an agreement on a price. Nobody, it seemed, bought more than he could easily carry by hand, and each parcel was tied up for stowage as in-flight baggage. The visits concluded with tea and soft drinks in Chong's air-conditioned office.</div>
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Before leaving Singapore, I went to visit Haji V. Syed Mohammed. His shop, V. S. S. Varusai Mohamed & Sons, is just across the street from the Sultan Mosque. The store sells<em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em>, perfume, money belts, cassette tapes, shawls, skull caps and highly decorative incense burners made in Bangladesh. While we were talking, he told me of one of the most renowned <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em> dealers in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates: Ajmal's Perfume Manufacturing & Oudh Processing Industry. It was a fortuitous meeting, for Dubai was my next stop.</div>
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In Dubai, there are entire streets lined with shops selling <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em>. Among them, the family-run Ajmal company is one of the largest dealers in pure and blended <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em> perfumes in all of the Middle East. From their 22 shops throughout the Arabian Peninsula, they sell <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em> oils from Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam, and their most extravagant creation is a blend of aged <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em> oils called Dahnal Oudh al-Moattaq. The price: $850 for a 30-gram (1-oz) bottle. This is out of the reach of all but the most affluent, but nearly everyone can afford to buy modest amounts of <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em> chips for daily use, rituals and ceremonies—which might include driving, for Dubai automotive shops sell clip-on electric braziers that plug into a car's cigarette lighter.</div>
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Because of the popularity of <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em>, its high price and the difficulty of collecting it from the wild, several companies in peninsular Malaysia and India have begun to look into the possibility of artificially introducing the <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em> fungus into <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">Aquilaria</em> trees in hopes of creating commercial <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em> plantations. Thousands of trees have been inoculated with the fungus and people are waiting to see if the <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em> will start to grow, and if perhaps they can even harvest it without cutting down the tree.</div>
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Nearly a year after my visits to Singapore and Dubai, another trip took me back to Borneo. I ran into a group of Penan friends at the riverside shop of Towkay Yong Khi Liang, a Hakka Chinese trader on the upper Limbang River in Sarawak. The Penan had just traded a kilo of low-quality <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em> for a few sacks of sago flour, a replacement part for a chainsaw, some cartons of tinned food, some rolling tobacco, several pairs of cheap tennis shoes and soft drinks for everyone present.</div>
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As we stood on the dock, the Penan asked me if I had ever found out what the people in the Middle East did with the <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">gaharu</em>. I told them what I had discovered about the history of its trade, and then I explained the long and complicated journey it makes before arriving on the other side of the world. I described the networks of middlemen, the refined grading techniques and the marketing efforts that multiplied the price 25 times or more before it reached the final customer. They listened patiently to these facts, but what they really wanted to find out was what people did with the wood after spending so much money on it.</div>
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I suspected that they wouldn't believe me, but I had to reveal the astonishing truth: I told them people buy <em style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; outline: 0px;">'ud</em> so that they can take it home and burn it.</div>
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<strong><span style="color: #697279;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans Light, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
Aquilaria trees </span></span></span></span></strong><span style="color: #697279;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans Light, sans-serif;">are
large evergreens native to South East Asia. They grow in a wide range
of soils and mature very quickly, producing flowers and seeds as
early as 4 years old. If the trees are infected by either fungus or
insect, the tree produces a fragrant resin known as Agarwood in order
to protect and repair its self. In the wild, Agarwood can take up to
100 years to form inside the tree, using our patented inoculation
process, we can produce Agarwood in the tree within 6 – 8 years.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #697279;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans Light, sans-serif;">Due
to its precious value, the Aquilaria tree is registered as an
endangered species by CITES (Convention on International Trade in
Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora). In respect of tree
conservation, the concept of Aquilaria plantations was initially
developed in Thailand, with inoculation techniques, capable of
providing premium quality Agarwood comparable to the natural source.</span></span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #697279;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans Light, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Agarwood
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a widespread and varied use going back thousands of years and was
recorded in the New Testament. When distilled oil is produced which
is used in perfumes and can be sold for up to $20,000 USD per kg, the
oil in its purest form is known as Oud or Oudh.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #697279;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans Light, sans-serif;">Currently
the demand for Agarwood and its products including Oud oil, far
exceeds the available supply. Oud oil is used in some of the most
expensive perfumes in the world, Lacoste, Tom Ford, Versace and Yves
St Laurant. The wood its self also has many other uses such as
medical, religious and is carved into many different items. Today
Agarwood is recognised as the most precious wood in the world, an
extremely high value with 1 kg being sold for as much as $5,000 USD.</span></span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #697279;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans Light, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">High
Fixed Return</span></span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: #697279;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans Light, sans-serif;"><br />Forestry
Forward Purchase Plan products are a widely accepted asset class
generating high percentage guaranteed return at over 12% a year.
Forestry is generally protected from inflation, economic recession,
the stock market fluctuations, and political instability.</span></span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #697279;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans Light, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Strategic
Locations</span></span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: #697279;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans Light, sans-serif;"><br />Plantations
are located in non-flood areas in Trat province providing perfect
growing conditions for Aquilaria and Agarwood inoculation. Asia
Forestry Factory is located close to the raw material supply via our
plantations, to minimize the logistical cost. The assets are
protected with physical security as well as monitored by forestry
teams acting as fire prevention wardens.<br /><br />If any of the trees
die unexpectedly, reserve stock is waiting to replace your tree.
This is an added area of protection to support your investment.</span></span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #697279;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans Light, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Professional
Teams</span></span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: #697279;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans Light, sans-serif;"><br />The
plantations are well managed and monitored by professional forestry
teams. With inoculation techniques, Asia Forestry is capable of
providing premium quality Agarwood comparable to the natural source.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #697279;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans Light, sans-serif;">4.</span></span><strong><span style="color: #697279;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans Light, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Environmentally
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<span style="color: #697279;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans Light, sans-serif;"><br />You
are part of the socially responsible investor who looking to reap the
rewards of financial growth with environmental responsibility.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #697279;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans Light, sans-serif;">For further information on this fantastic investment opportunity you can request a brochure using the appointment widget located top right of this blog.</span></span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Countdown to the EU Timber Regulation: What you need to know</strong><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Starting 3 March 2013, placing timber from illegally harvested forests and products derived from such timber will be prohibited in the European Union. WWF/GFTN explains what the regulation is, who it impacts and guidance on how compliance might be achieved in the long term. </span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><strong style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Voluntary Partnership Agreements: EU's work with producing countries</strong><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">The European Union is negotiating a series of bilateral, Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPA) with key timber producing countries. We explain what VPAs are and which countries are in talks with the EU. </span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><strong style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
Suppliers face bigger onus to verify legality as EUTR takes force</strong><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">The new regulation doesn't just affect operators and suppliers in the EU. It also has serious implications for companies supplying to Europe. </span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><strong style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
PAS 2021: providing guidance to promote legal forest trade</strong><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">GFTN-UK, in conjunction with the British Standards Institution (BSI), has developed new guidance to help the timber industry meet the impending EU Timber Regulation. The new guidance, known as PAS 2021 – Exercising due diligence in establishing the legal origin of timber and timber products – Guide to Regulation (EU 995/2010), is a good practice guidance to support industry efforts in the responsible sourcing of forest goods and sustainable forest management.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><strong style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
Changing attitudes in the EU on effective timber regulation</strong><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">The EU Timber Regulation gives new responsibilities and trust to operators when it comes to due diligence. But the new regulation is just the first step in a journey towards responsible forest management and trade. </span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><strong style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Global trends in timber legality</strong><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Recently, several countries have instituted new legislation to combat illegally harvested and traded timber products entering their countries. </span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><strong style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Australia latest to tackle illegal logging</strong><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">In December 2012, the Australian Parliament enacted historic legislation that criminalises the import or processing of forest products from illegal sources. Passage of the Illegal Logging Prohibition Act places Australia alongside the US, EU and other importers in the global effort to reduce pressure on critical forest habitats, protect community livelihoods, and level the playing field for legitimate business.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><strong style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New legislation bolsters impact of the US Lacey Act </strong><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">The Lacey Act has proven itself as a low cost, high impact programme, strengthening the market for US-based companies, increasing the demand for legally sourced timber, and disincentivizing irresponsible practices on the ground.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><strong style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Interview with Anders Hildeman, Global Forestry Manager, IKEA</strong><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">IKEA’s Anders Hildeman discusses what the company has done to prepare for the EU Timber Regulation, and the challenges and opportunities surrounding this new legislation. </span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><strong style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Interview with Koh Ee Lin, General Manager, PT. Seng Fong Moulding Perkasa</strong><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">PT. Seng Fong Moulding Perkasa (SFMP), a subsidiary of Singapore-based SF Resources Group, is the largest timber flooring manufacturer in East Java, Indonesia, and exports more than 18,000 m3 of wood products annually, including to Europe and Australia. SFMP’s General Manager Koh Ee Lin discusses what the company is doing to prepare for the EU Timber Regulation.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06611647580302868360noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636492821088963579.post-33148068624888190742013-02-01T11:53:00.001-08:002013-02-01T12:03:29.299-08:00Paulownia Tree farming Business<br />
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;"><b>1.The location</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;">The investment is located in Bulgaria in the city of Ruse. The country </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">is a EU member since 2007. Ruse is a key commercial port on the Danube
river and allows easy and cheap transport of goods by boat to the
heart of Europe.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;"><b>2.The land.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;">Most Forestry Investments work on a structure Land Lease contract,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">however this Paulownia Investment is one of the few in the business
that sell the land itself as FREEHOLD. This gives more security to
the Investor with the benefit of potential land value increases
being considered for asset appreciation</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;"><b>3.The trees.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;">The trees planted are Paulownia Tomentosa. They grow very well in the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Bulgarian climate. The plantation management company work with
forecast data - expected growth, speed of growth and volume of
harvested timber from a tree. The Paulownia tree species was imported
into Bulgaria about 20 years ago. Similar trees planted 10 - 15 years
ago are really huge. A tree like that has more than 2.5 - 3 cubic
meters of timber and they have been planted as decorative trees. The
forecasts are to get 1 cubic meter raw timber from a tree. Past
performance from a similar Paulownia plantation (8 years of age)
harvest exceeded 1 cubic meter per tree.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;"><b>4.The timber and its applications</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;">Paulownia </span><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;">timber</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;">*It </span><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;">is a hard wood - like oak and walnut. It is ideal for furniture</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">manufacturers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;">*It </span><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;">has better insulation qualities than any other wood and it does not</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">rot. That makes it ideal for wooden house manufacturers and parquet
floor manufacturers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;">*It </span><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;">grows tall and straight and is ideal for straight beams for building</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;">*because </span><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;">of the size of its leaves the tree produces several times more oxygen </span><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;">than most plants and absorbs more carbon-dioxide.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;"><b>5.Planting and growing the plantation</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;">Tree </span><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;">planting takes place in early spring before the leaves come out. By</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">the end of the first year most of the trees reach 2.5 - 3 meters
high. But what is most important is the roots to go as deep as
possible. The deeper the roots get - the faster the tree grows.</span></span></div>
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Pruning trees from the bottom in the beginning of the second year and
by the end of it they are nearly as high again as the rest that have
not been cut. And it is because the roots are as deep as the rest.
The first year is extremely important to water the plants everyday -
in summer twice a day!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;">Pruning </span><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;">is very important to get high and straight trees. From the </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;">fourth </span><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;">year the trees need only to get thicker.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;"><b>6.Security of plantations</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;">Surrounding </span><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;">the plantations with fences and provide a land guard. The </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;">ground </span><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;">between the trees is regularly cleared from grass to prevent fire</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;"><b>7.Company registration</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;">There </span><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;">are two lawyers that deal with the company registrations and </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;">prepare </span><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;">all necessary paperwork.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;">*Registration in Bulgaria: The lawyer fills in all necessary application papers for the company registration. As these forms go directly into </span><br />
<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;">the </span><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;">Bulgarian company registrar they need to be completed in Bulgarian. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A translator translates them all to the client before he signs them.
Then they are deposited with the registrar. </span></span><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;">A bank account is opened forthe new company and all payments the </span><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;">client needs to complete will go </span><br />
<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;">through it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;">*Registration when the client does not come to Bulgaria: The lawyer</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">fills in all necessary application papers for the company
registration. All forms are emailed to the client and he has to print
them out and go to the nearest Bulgarian embassy in the investors
Country of Residence and sign them there. All expenses at the embassy
are chargeable to the investor.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;">Then </span><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;">the investor sends the forms to the Plantation Management team by</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">mail. Once the forms arrive the Bulgarian lawyers they are deposited
with the registrar and the company account is opened. In this case
there are additional Power of attorneys to let the management company
represent the investor before the registrar and deposit the papers on
the investors behalf and register the company bank account.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;"><b>8.Land title</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;">Once the company is registered and the money is paid the land title is</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">transferred to the investors new company. This is done with a local
Notary. The title deed is written by the notary and both the seller
and the buyer need to sign it in front of the notary. The notary
signs it as well and then he deposits it in court where the title is
transferred to the buyer. It takes from 2 days to 2 weeks sometimes.
If the client (as the owner of the company) cannot be present he can
be represented using power of attorney to buy his land on his behalf
and transfer the title to the newly formed company.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;"><b>9.Payment options</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;"><b>Option </b></span><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;"><b>1</b> - The whole amount is paid by the client when he signs the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">contracts and the papers for the company. When paying in this way the
seller will allow a discretionary discount on investment. Details
available by request.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;"><b>Option </b></span><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;"><b>2</b> - With deposit and installments - 30 % deposit is paid at </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;">signing </span><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;">the contract. The rest is divided into 35 equal monthly </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;">installments </span><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;">due the 1st of every month. The legal transfer of the titlewill </span><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;">be </span><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;">done after the last installment is paid! Many investors prefer </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;">this </span><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;">option because they do not pay all the money at once. The investor</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">can sign the contract and get things started without visiting
Bulgaria at the start, Investors can plan their visit to a time that
suites them best and see their plantation already planted and grown.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;"><b>Option </b></span><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;"><b>3</b> - Only with installments - as option 2 but without the 30%</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">deposit. The seller does not offer this option all the time! It is </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">available only from June to December for plots that will be planted nextyear March - April! This allows the clients account to accumulate at </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">least part of the money necessary for planting!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;"><b>10.Power of attorney</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;">Two </span><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;">types of power of attorney:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;">*necessary </span><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;">for bank accounts</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">*necessary for registering the company and transferring the land title</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/paulownia-investments.html" target="_blank">Forward Purchase Contract, of the harvested Paulownia timber is providedby the plantation management company. This means that your harvest is </a></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/paulownia-investments.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">guaranteed a buyer. </span></span><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;">Further details are available </span><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;">on request.</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/paulownia-investments.html" target="_blank">So you like the idea of having your own timber producing fully</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/paulownia-investments.html" target="_blank">legitimate Company. What you will find of real interest is the entry
level for investment is well within reach. Denominated in £ sterling
or Euro's every investor with a little put aside receiving little
interest could participate in a long term lucrative venture.</a></span></span></div>
<a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/paulownia-investments.html" target="_blank">
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/paulownia-investments.html" target="_blank">Sales Brochure available on request (see top right of site) if you would</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/paulownia-investments.html" target="_blank"><span lang="en-GB">like to view the projected investment returns on offer. (current
</span>projections running @ 15% IRR).</a></span></span></div>
<a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/paulownia-investments.html" target="_blank">
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/paulownia-investments.html" target="_blank">Silvinvest Ltd acts as a Marketing and Distribution Hub for various </a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/paulownia-investments.html" target="_blank">Alternative Investments, with a particular bias towards Forestry </a></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/paulownia-investments.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Investments. </span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans Light, sans-serif;">Everybody
knows that wooden houses are for children, doggies, and weirdos who
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans Light, sans-serif;">So,
has wood come into fashion? Hmmmm. Since when did it ever fall out of
fashion? It’s always been the best building material whichever way
you look at it. </span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans Light, sans-serif;">Now
get your brain around this. Relative to its weight, wood is the
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it which is why building with wood is quick, easy, and economical (as
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nature made wood so strong and flexible, tall wooden buildings remain
standing even during earthquakes. </span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans Light, sans-serif;">Wood is beautiful, feels good, and
has a wonderful scent, creates and excellent indoor climate and
acoustics, and keeps you warm, but don’t take our word for it. If
you “wood” give it a try. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: 'DejaVu Sans Light', sans-serif;">Wood is the most environmentally
friendly material. It’s the only building material made by the sun,
and with carbon from the air, so wood stores carbon and reduces the
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course), and should wooden houses be demolished, you don’t end up
with waste, nooooo! For wood can be recycled or burned. Thus using
the solar energy stored in the wood to replace using coal, oil, and
gas. Brilliant! Which is why modern intelligent people choose wood,
caring</span></div>
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this. Trees and forests are a source of raw material that grow every
year, and forests are much prettier than coal mines and oil drilling
platforms, but you may ask isn't it wrong to cut down trees? No,
luckily cutting down trees is absolutely fine if forests are managed
with the purpose of producing wood for manufacture and when we cut
down trees, new ones are planted in their place. Furthermore,
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out of the atmosphere and store it in their trunks, then later in
wood products. So, we are reducing the greenhouse effect every time
we use wood in houses, bridges, furniture, and cars, and when you
dispose of wood products the story still isn't quite over, burn them,
for there’s energy stored in the wood, and by doing so you release
only as much CO2 as the tree consumed when it grew thus replacing the
use of coal, oil and gas, preventing CO2 emissions and resulting in
no waste which is why wood is the world’s most environmentally
friendly raw material; a resource that both grows and produces clean
energy instead of waste which is more than you can say about metal or
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<strong style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Frankfurt, Germany</strong><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"> — By 2050, rising population and demand, as well as an increase in use of wood for bioenergy, could triple the amount of wood society takes from forests and plantations per year, according to the latest instalment of WWF’s </span><a href="http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/how_we_work/conservation/forests/publications/living_forests_report/" style="border: 0px; color: #006262; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Living Forests Report</em></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">. The report, presented today at the international paper conference Paperworld in Frankfurt, projects paper production and consumption may double in the next three decades, and overall wood consumption may triple. </span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">“A scenario of tripling the amount of wood society takes from forests and plantations needs to motivate good stewardship that safeguards forests – otherwise we could destroy the very places where wood grows,” says Rod Taylor, Director of WWF’s Global Forest Programme. “Wood, if sourced from well managed forests or plantations, is a renewable material with many advantages over non-renewable alternatives. The key challenge for forest-based industries is how to supply more wood products with less impact on nature. This challenge spans the whole supply chain, from where and how wood is grown and harvested to how wisely and efficiently it is processed, used and reused.”</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">WWF’s forest conservation target is zero net deforestation and forest degradation by 2020, which means no overall loss of forest area or forest quality. The target requires the loss of natural forests to be reduced to near zero, down from the current 13 million hectares a year, and held at that level indefinitely.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">“WWF’s research suggests that it is possible to achieve zero net deforestation and forest degradation while sustaining a vibrant wood products industry that meets people’s needs,” says Emmanuelle Neyroumande, Manager of WWF International´s global pulp and paper work. “But the longer we delay our actions the more difficult and costly the solutions will be. We need wiser consumption, more efficiency, responsible forestry practices, good governance and more transparency.”</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">For paper in particular, the </span><em style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Living Forests Report</em><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"> outlines a variety of solutions:</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><strong style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">More recycling in countries with low recovery rates</strong><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">: Even with higher global paper consumption in the future, society would need less virgin material than today if recycling rates increased. A 2020 scenario shows that an increase of paper production by 25 per cent could still require less virgin fibre input if the current global level of 53 per cent recycled fibre use is increased to 70 per cent. Paper recovery rates vary greatly between countries. Therefore, efforts to increase recycling in countries with low recovery rates and high consumption growth have particular potential to reduce pressure on natural forests. </span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><strong style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Resource efficiency and fairer consumption patterns</strong><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">: More efficient processing and manufacturing can help produce more products with a given amount of wood. Also, the current consumption patterns of rich nations (10 per cent of the world’s population consuming 50 per cent of the world’s paper) cannot sustainably be followed by developing countries. Richer nations can reduce wasteful paper use, while poorer nations need more paper for education, hygiene and food safety. </span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><strong style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Plantations to reduce pressure on natural forests</strong><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">: Even with more frugal use and greater recycling and efficiency, net demand for wood is likely to grow. Maintaining near zero loss of natural forests after 2020, without significant reductions in consumption, would require up to 250 million hectares of new tree plantations by 2050, which is nearly double the amount of plantations today. Therefore, well-managed plantations, particularly on currently degraded land, contributing to restore ecosystems, will play an increasingly important role.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><strong style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Well-managed forests</strong><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">: Growing demand will also certainly push production further into natural forests. The report indicates that by 2050 up to 25 per cent more forests might be commercially harvested than today. Forest certification will continue to be an important tool to improve forest management practices via a market driven mechanism. </span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><strong style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The energy challenge</strong><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">: By 2050, annual wood demand for energy could reach 6-8 billion m3, which would require more than twice the wood removed for all uses today. This clearly poses a challenge for sustainable land-use planning. WWF sees an important role for bioenergy to provide diverse alternatives to fossil fuels, plus new incomes and increased energy security for rural communities. However, for these benefits to be realized, its use must be carefully planned, implemented and monitored for environmental and social sustainability. Badly managed bioenergy production can destroy valuable ecosystems, undermine food and water security, harm rural communities and prolong wasteful energy consumption. </span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Humanity will likely use more wood in more ways in the coming decades. Given the massive projected increase in wood and paper demand, forest-based industries are key to conserving forests. 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<p>Agarwood is the heartwood found at the centre of Gyrinops and Aquilaria trees. These trees are large evergreen species found naturally in certain parts of Southeast Asia including Cambodia and Thailand. The valuable heartwood is created when the centre of the tree is infected with a certain type of mould. This produces a one-time chemical reaction inside the trunk itself transforming the core into a dark, dense timber that is saturated in heavily scented resin.</p>
<p>The final result of this reaction, also knows as Oud, has such an attractive and strong scent that it is highly sought after for use in the production of incense, perfumes and essential oils across the world and is also used in the development of some more traditional medicines.</p>
<p><b>Different Types of Oud</b></p>
<p>Depending on the type of tree grown and the location of the plantation, the resulting Oud can have a varying range of qualities to fulfil the differing requirements for this product</p>.
<p><b>Oud al Seyufi</b> is the darkest of all the resins created in the region and is derived from some of the best Agarwood found in the plantations of Thailand and Cambodia. Thanks to its age and high quality, though the aroma of this product is initially very heavy, it soon transforms into a sweet, strong smell that is perfect for use in creating some of the most highly sought after fragrances of today.</p>
<p><b>Oud al Safii</b> comes from Agarwood grown on the border between Thailand and Cambodia. With woody undertones, this attractive scent is able to remain on the skin for longer which builds longevity in the perfumes it is used to create. Oud al Safii Thai is a lighter, oily resin which is grown within the Thai province of Trat. The zesty aroma and pure form of the final product makes this ideal for the production of essential oils and related products.</p>
<p>Though most Oud is supplied in a syrupy liquid form, it is also possible to produce Oud Powder and Wood-chips. The wood-chips themselves can be burned directly to produce a wonderful aroma while the powder is used to create incense sticks in order to release its delicious scent.</p>
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<p><b>The Benefits of Managed Plantations</b></p>
<p><b>Though Gyrinops and Aquilaria trees are found naturally within the plantations regions, the development of managed sites for Agarwood has not only made is it possible for a sustainable and continuous source of this valuable product to be developed, but it also enables the facilities themselves to oversee the entire Oud extraction process. By keeping the entire procedure on-site, the expert management team are able to maintain a level of quality control that is not possible in the wild and ensure the level of supply is able to meet the increasing demand for such a highly valued product.</b></p>
<p>From the growth of the initial seed through to the final supply, such control ensures the final product delivered to the marketplace is in its purest form, thus maintaining the best price for the commodity and a high rate of return for all those that choose to invest.</p>
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How important Trees are for our everyday needs?</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If
you consider the situation with the depletion of our natural forests,
it is not hard to foresee how it is massively important to start the
process of afforestation projects. </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Oil,
Gas, Iron Ore etc.,etc. can (ultimately) all be replaced with
alternatives no matter how unstable the world may become due to their
scarcity. However, trees are not a natural resource that can be
depleted to near extinction. Obviously, we need them to exist.
Unless, we as a race, find an alternative to oxygen!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Logically,
it can be seen that trees will, in fact, be more precious and usable
in the future, especially within an ever growing population. </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Why?</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Well
think of all the uses of trees.</b> </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Heat</b>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Wood
to many people is still the primary source of heat.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Going
back to basics, wood was the first material used for heating and at
present it is making a marked comeback in the form of wood pellets
for their use within industrial power generation and also within the
home using wood burning stoves. This is not just in the
industrialised countries but also, increasingly, within developing
nations. Charcoal is still, a regulary used form of fuel for
heating and cooking. Wood is recognised as an environmentally safer
material when contrasted against other raw materials i.e. oil or
coal. With the cost of oil, coal and gas increasing, it is also
economically viable. </span></span></span>
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seems obvious that wood will remain the main source material in the
construction industry. What is likely to replace it? As population
and demographics explode this will put a massive strain on supply and
demand. Unless, that supply is illegally sourced from existing
forests causing further depletion to one of our greatest natural
resources. </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: NSimSun, monospace; font-size: medium;">I
would suggest that the need for wood in this sector is likely to
increase further as man-made materials are in some way linked to the
expensive raw material, Oil. We know oil can't last forever. It won't
be long before it is just too uneconomic to use Oil. Unlike wood, Oil
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This
is likely to rise and then fall in demand as most text will be
electronic. However, packaging and tissue usage will likely increase.
This is a reality and again linked to population and economic issues.
Paper is likely to be a major industry for many years to come.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Consider
how many pallets are used to transport goods worldwide and within a
local economy. Again, what is a likely alternative.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">With
worldwide government intervention trying to halt illegal logging and
also with the introduction of Carbon Credits as an Asset class, I
believe that the afforestation of large swathes of land is likely and
necessary. Don't forget timber is the worlds third biggest commodity
traded. </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Thought?
If carbon emissions are a major factor in </span></span><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23climate&src=hash"><span style="color: #f372f3;"><strike><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u>#</u></span></span></strike></span></a><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23climate&src=hash"><span style="color: #eb15eb;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u>climate</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> change
and </span></span><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23trees&src=hash"><span style="color: #f372f3;"><strike><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u>#</u></span></span></strike></span></a><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23trees&src=hash"><span style="color: #eb15eb;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u>trees</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> are
a major sequester of carbon why don't we plant more trees? </span></span></span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/agarwood-investments.html">History</a></span></span></span></h2>
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<a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/agarwood-investments.html"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
odour of agarwood is complex and pleasing, with few or no similar
natural analogues. As a result, agarwood and its </span></span></span><span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">essential oil </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">gained
great cultural and religious significance in ancient civilizations
around the world, being mentioned throughout one of the world's
oldest written texts – the Sanskrit Vedas from India.</span></span></span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/agarwood-investments.html"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As
early as the third century AD in ancient China, the </span></span></span><span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">chronicle</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: #a55858;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Nan
zhou yi wu zhi </i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(Strange
things from the South) written by </span></span></span><span style="color: #a55858;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Wa
Zhen </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">of
the Eastern </span></span></span><span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Wu Dynasty </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">mentioned
agarwood produced in the Rinan commandery, now Central </span></span></span><span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Vietnam</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">,
and how people collected it in the mountains.</span></span></span></a><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Starting
in 1580 after </span></span></span><span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Nguyễn
Hoàng </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">took
control over the central provinces of modern Vietnam, he encouraged
trade with other countries, specifically China and Japan. Agarwood
was exported in three varieties: Calambac (kỳ nam in Vietnamese),
trầm hương (very similar but slightly harder and slightly more
abundant), and agarwood proper. A pound of Calambac bought in </span></span></span><span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Hội
An</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> for
15 </span></span></span><span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">taels</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> could
be sold in </span></span></span><span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Nagasaki</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> for
600 taels. The </span></span></span><span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Nguyễn
Lords</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> soon
established a </span></span></span><span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Royal
Monopoly</span></span></span><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> over
the sale of Calambac. This monopoly helped fund the Nguyễn state
finances during the early years of the Nguyen rule<span style="color: #0b0080;">.</span></span></span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/agarwood-investments.html"><span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Xuanzang</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">'s
travelogues and the </span></span></span><span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Harshacharita</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">,
written in seventh century AD in Northern India, mentions use of
agarwood products such as 'Xasipat' (writing-material) and 'aloe-oil'
in ancient </span></span></span><span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Assam</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> (Kamarupa).
The tradition of making writing materials from its bark still exists
in </span></span></span><span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Assam</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">.</span></span></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/agarwood-investments.html">Agarwood
is known under many names in different cultures:</a></span></span></span></div>
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<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 0.5cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; padding: 0cm;">
<a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/agarwood-investments.html"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In </span></span></span><span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Urdu</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> (Pakistan),
it is known as </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>agar</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(in
Bengali, also </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>aguru</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">).</span></span></span><span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/agarwood-investments.html"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It
is known by the same Sanskrit name in </span></span></span><span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Telugu</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> and </span></span></span><span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Kannada</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> as </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Aguru</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">.</span></span></span></a></div>
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<li><div style="border: none; line-height: 0.5cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; padding: 0cm;">
<a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/agarwood-investments.html"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It
is known as </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>chénxiāng</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> (</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Lucida Sans Unicode;"><span style="color: #663366;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">沉香</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">)
in </span></span></span><span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Chinese</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">,
"Cham Heong" in</span></span></span><span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Cantonese</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">, </span></span></span><span style="color: #663366;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>trầm
hương</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> in </span></span></span><span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Vietnamese</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">,
and </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>jinkō</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> (</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Lucida Sans Unicode;"><span style="color: #663366;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">沈香</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">)
in </span></span></span><span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Japanese</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">;
all meaning "sinking incense" and alluding to its high
density. In Japan, there are several grades of </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>jinkō</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">,
the highest of which is known as </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>kyara</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> (</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Lucida Sans Unicode;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">伽羅</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">).</span></span></span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/agarwood-investments.html"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Both
agarwood and its resin distillate/extracts are known as </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>oud</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">عود</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">)
in </span></span></span><span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Arabic</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> (literally
"rod/stick") and used to describe agarwood in nations and
areas in Arabic countries.</span></span></span><span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">[9]</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Western
perfumers may also use agarwood essential oil under the name "oud"
or "oude".</span></span></span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/agarwood-investments.html"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In
Europe it was referred to as </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Lignum
aquila</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> (eagle-wood)
or</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Agilawood</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">,
because of the similarity in sound of </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>agila</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> to </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>gaharu</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">.</span></span></span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/agarwood-investments.html"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Another
name is </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Lignum
aloes</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> or
Aloeswood. This is potentially confusing, since a genus </span></span></span><span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Aloe</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> exists
(unrelated), which has medicinal uses.</span></span></span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/agarwood-investments.html"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In </span></span></span><span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Tibetan</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> it
is known as </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ཨ་ག་རུ་
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(a-ga-ru).
There are several varieties used in Tibetan Medicine: unique
eaglewood: </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ཨར་བ་ཞིག་
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(ar-ba-zhig);
yellow eaglewood: </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ཨ་ག་རུ་སེར་པོ་
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(a-ga-ru
ser-po), white eaglewood: </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ཨར་སྐྱ་
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(ar-skya),
and black eaglewood: </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ཨར་ནག་</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(ar-nag).</span></span></span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/agarwood-investments.html"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In </span></span></span><span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Assamese</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> it
is called as "sasi" or "sashi".</span></span></span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/agarwood-investments.html"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The </span></span></span><span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Indonesian</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> and </span></span></span><span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Malay</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> name
is "gaharu".</span></span></span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/agarwood-investments.html"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In </span></span></span><span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Papua
New Guinea</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> it
is called "ghara" or eaglewood.</span></span></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/agarwood-investments.html"><br /></a></span></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/agarwood-investments.html"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In </span></span></span><span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Thai
language</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> it
is known as "Mai Kritsana" (</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ไม้กฤษณา</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">).</span></span></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/agarwood-investments.html"><br /></a></span></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/agarwood-investments.html"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In </span></span></span><span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Tamil</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> it
is called "akil" (</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">அகில்</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">)
though what was referred in ancient Tamil literature could well
be</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Excoecaria
agallocha</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">.</span></span></span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/agarwood-investments.html"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In </span></span></span><span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Laos</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> it
is known as "Mai Ketsana".</span></span></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/agarwood-investments.html">Formation</a></span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/agarwood-investments.html"><br /></a></span></span></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/agarwood-investments.html">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There
are fifteen species in the genus </span></span></span><span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Aquilaria</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> and
eight are known to produce agarwood.</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In
theory agarwood can be produced from all members; however, until
recently it was primarily produced from </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>A.
malaccensis</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">. </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>A.
agallocha</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> and </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>A.
secundaria</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> are
synonyms for </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>A.
malaccensis</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">.</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>A.
crassna</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> and </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>A.
sinensis</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> are
the other two members of the genus that are usually harvested.</span></span></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Formation
of agarwood occurs in the trunk and roots of trees that have been
infected by a parasitc </span></span></span><span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ascomycetous </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">mould, </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Phaeoacremonium
parasitica</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">,</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> a
dematiaceous (dark-walled) fungus. As a response, the tree produces a
resin high in volatile organic compounds that aids in suppressing or
retarding the fungal growth, a process called </span></span></span><span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">tylosis</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">.
While the unaffected wood of the tree is relatively light in colour,
the resin dramatically increases the mass and density of the affected
wood, changing its colour from a pale beige to dark brown or black.
In natural forest only about 7% of the trees are infected by the
fungus. A common method in artificial forestry is to </span></span></span><span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">inoculate</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> all
the trees with the fungus.</span></span></span></a></div>
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process used to extract agarwood essential oils.</a></span></span></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/agarwood-investments.html" style="background-color: white; font-family: NSimSun, monospace; font-size: large; line-height: 0.5cm;">Aquilaria
species that produce agarwood</a></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/agarwood-investments.html" style="line-height: 0.5cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
following species of </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Aquilaria</i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> produce
agarwood<span style="color: #0b0080;">:</span></span></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/agarwood-investments.html"><i>Aquilaria
khasiana</i>, </a></span></span></div>
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<li><div style="border: none; padding: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/agarwood-investments.html">Aquilaria
apiculina</a></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/agarwood-investments.html">Aquilaria
acuminata</a></i></span></span></div>
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<li><div style="border: none; padding: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/agarwood-investments.html">Aquilaria
baillonil</a></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/agarwood-investments.html">Aquilaria
baneonsis</a></i></span></span></div>
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<li><div style="border: none; padding: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/agarwood-investments.html">Aquilaria
beccariana</a></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/agarwood-investments.html">Aquilaria
brachyantha</a></i></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/agarwood-investments.html"><span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Aquilaria
crassna</i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></a></div>
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<li><div style="border: none; padding: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/agarwood-investments.html">Aquilaria
cumingiana</a></i></span></span></div>
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<li><div style="border: none; padding: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/agarwood-investments.html">Aquilaria
filaria</a></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/agarwood-investments.html">Aquilaria
grandiflora</a></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/agarwood-investments.html">Aquilaria hirta</a></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/agarwood-investments.html">Aquilaria
malaccensis</a></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/agarwood-investments.html">Aquilaria
microcapa</a></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/agarwood-investments.html">Aquilaria
rostrata</a></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/agarwood-investments.html">Aquilaria
sinensis</a></i></span></span></span></div>
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<li><div style="border: none; padding: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/agarwood-investments.html">Aquilaria
subintegra</a></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/agarwood-investments.html">Conservation
of agarwood-producing species</a></span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/agarwood-investments.html"><br /></a></span></span></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/agarwood-investments.html"><span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Overharvesting</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> and </span></span></span><span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">habitat
loss</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> threatens
some populations of agarwood-producing species. Concern over the
impact of the global demand for agarwood has thus led to the
inclusion of the main taxa on </span></span></span><span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">CITES</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Appendix
II, which requires that international trade in agarwood is subject to
controls designed to ensure that harvest and exports are not to the
detriment of the survival of the species in the wild.</span></span></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/agarwood-investments.html"><br /></a></span></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.silvinvest.co.uk/agarwood-investments.html"><b>In addition, agarwood plantations have been established in a number ofcountries. The success of these plantation depends on the stimulation of agarwood production in the trees. Numerous inoculation technique shave been developed, with varying degrees of success.</b></a></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Currently
the demand for Agarwood and its products including Oudh oil, far
exceeds the available supply. Oudh oil is used in some of the most
expensive perfumes in the world, Lacoste, Tom Ford, Versace and Yves
St. Laurent. The wood itself also has many other uses such as
medical, religious and is carved into many different items. Today
Agarwood is recognised as the most precious wood in the world, an
extremely high value with being sold for as much as $5,000 USD.1kg and the essential oil can be worth anything up to $80,000 per kilo depending on quality.</span></span></span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
Opportunity </span></span></span></strong><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">is
a forward purchase contract where you purchase saplings at a set
price, the more you purchase the cheaper the saplings are. You are
then given a forward purchase price at which the product provider will
buy the trees back from you at maturity in 6yrs time. This means the
returns of 72%+ for the 6yr term are guaranteed, backed by a company
with a great reputation of plantation management and of producing
quality grade Oudh oil.</span></span></span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Underlying
Asset </span></span></span></strong><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: NSimSun, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">is
the Agarwood trees, they are held by the customer, the returns are
guaranteed by the current sale of the Oudh oil at today's price.</span></span></span></div>
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<strong>When income is not a requirement but long term stability and growth is the aim, Gold is an attractive and simple investment tool that has a strong reputation for building a consistent foundation on which to build a portfolio of investments.</strong></div>
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Gold is the basis of our entire financial structure and provides a safe haven, whether Governments or retail investors. When the stock market is particularly turbulent and economies are faltering, Gold is the investment of choice.</div>
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As a limited commodity, Gold is continuously in high demand, creating a value to the commodity which is forecast for growth both in the short and long term.</div>
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As the global reserve currency, Gold is always going to have an inherent value which means that any direct investment in the physical product will create a tangible commodity that maintains its structural worth and creates a viable safe-haven for those that continue to choose to invest in it.</div>
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As we move into times of economic uncertainty, investment in such a stable commodity acts as a buffer against the ravages of inflation and global market events to create a more certain opportunity for growth than a high proportion of other more liquid forms of venture.</div>
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When investing in certain gold coins, there is no demand to pay either VAT on the purchase or Capital Gains Tax (CGT) on any growth within the portfolio.</div>
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This offers significant savings for tax payers, especially those that are liable for a higher rate in the UK, and makes the investment in Gold even more attractive.</div>
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Though coins are ineligible for pension investment which means pension holders cannot take advantage of VAT and CGT benefits, the up to 40% tax relief that is available within a pension acquisition does ensure a discounted rate for the gold purchased or enable a greater quantity of gold to be bought for the same price.</div>
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Whether coins or gold bars are chosen, when capital is placed into physical gold the investor himself becomes the legal owner of the asset.</div>
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The gold can then be stored on the owner's behalf or alternatively cash investors are able to take physical ownership of their asset whenever they so wish.</div>
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This creates a certainty of wealth in the investment that is simply not possible with so many other alternative ventures.</div>
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The term of any investment in gold is also purely down to the financial decisions made by the investor himself.</div>
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The asset can be sold at any point in time either privately or back to the gold broker in question. This means that any cash investor can place their wealth into gold when interest rates are low and then liquidate their asset when they so wish or at a point in time when they feel their investment has reached an expected level of growth.</div>
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An investment of this type requires no minimum level of capital and can be extended to a substantial level. Furthermore, cash investments can be made directly into gold, or gold bars can be bought within both a SIPP and SASS pension to create wealth for retirement and stable growth for the future.</div>
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<tr><td><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>"Illegal logging now accounts for between 15 and 30 per cent of the global legal trade and significantly hampers the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) initiative.</strong></span><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>"</strong></span><br />
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available for retail purchase online through <a href="http://www.daraloud.com/">www.daraloud.com</a>,
additional outlet channels are currently under discussion. Dar al Oud
is a prestigious brand of 100% pure Oud oil, dedicated to only the
finest quality and purity. Satisfying the demand for unique, high
quality premium products, Dar al Oud will, in the future, also offer
a wide range of oud related products such as incense, body butter and
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="ar-SA"><b>فخامةالعود</b></span> </span></span><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>:
Glory of Oud</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB">Our
finest Oud oil, born from the premium Cambodian Agarwood, selected
from our oldest Agarwood trees, filled with dark concentrated resin.
This oil is produced with such high viscosity that it is known
as </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>royalty</i></span><span lang="en-GB"> within
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB">The
caramel coloured oil has a rich, warm, woody scent. Once known to be
used by King Louis XIV of France to wash his clothes, Glory of Oud is
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">We
offer for sale a forestry business with </span></span></strong><strong><span style="color: black;"><u>Quick</u></span></strong><strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> growing
trees to be harvested for timber. You are buying;</span></span></strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />A
fully functional Bulgarian Ltd company. </span></span></span><strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">100
%</span></span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> of
the shares of the company are transferred into your name and you are
signed as director of the company. You will become the sole owner of
the business!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
company owns 100 % - 1 000 sq. m. </span></span></span><strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">FREEHOLD</span></span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> plot
of land.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In
the land are planted </span></span></span><strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">110</span></span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> quick
growing </span></span></span><strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">PAULOWNIA
trees</span></span></span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">.</span></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
company has a signed contract with a </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">managing
company</span></span></span></b><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> that
will take care of your trees for the first three years</b> – </span></span></span><strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">it
includes planting, regular watering, pruning and security of your
trees</span></span></span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">.
If any trees perished, for whatever reason, within the first three
years of planting, will be replaced for free.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span><strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">You
will receive an optional future buyback timber contract to secure
your investment returns!!</span></span></span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
All inc. price of the package is only</span> £5,900<span style="font-weight: normal;">. You receive a </span>5%
discount<span style="font-weight: normal;"> if you pay in full. </span></span></span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">WHY
PAULOWNIA, THE PRINCESS TREE</span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span><strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Strength</span></span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> -
Known in the industry as the "</span></span></span><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Aluminium
of Timbers</span></span></span></span></em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">",
Paulownia is 30% lighter than any comparable hardwood, it is durable,
strong, twist / warp-resistant and virtually rot free, very low
thermal conductivity.</span></span></span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Growth
Speed</span></span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> -
The Princess Tree is known as the fastest growing hardwood in the
world /reaches 25 – 30 m height and 70 – 80 cm. thick/ and in
comparison to other timbers can be harvested in a quarter of the time
/7 – 10 years/. Studies on various existing plantations have shown
that the Paulownia produces an average of at least one cubic meter of
processed timber per 10 year old tree.</span></span></span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Care
and Treatment</span></span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> –
The first three years the tree needs a lot of water and regular
pruning. There are no special treatments after that. Because the tree
regenerates from its roots, and does not deplete soil quality, it
will re-grow to be harvested again, and so on every 7 - 10 years.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span><strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Investment
Value</span></span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> -
As an asset class, timber has consistently out-performed most stocks
and commodities for the last 100 years, including oil, gas and gold.
Its price on the European market is 300 EURO – 500 EURO m3.</span></span></span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Supply
& Demand</span></span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> -
Paulownia is native to China and the Far East and has been used in
Japan for centuries as a furniture wood; chests of drawers called
“Tansu” are made from this wood and nearly every Japanese home
has one. Paulownia timber is currently being developed into an
efficient and valuable biomass fuel.</span></span></span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Carbon
Sequestration</span></span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> -
Paulownia absorbs more CO2 than any other plantation
tree. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><b>Environmental Regeneration Quality</b> - Paulownia’s
deep running roots increase the organic content of degraded soils by
processing and filtering contaminants through the uptake of its
vascular system, also protecting the land from soil erosion and
maintains watersheds.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span><strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Physical
properties of Paulownia:</span></span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Paulownia
is light weight 17 to 21lbs per cubic foot as compared to Appalachian
Red Oak at 39 to 41 lbs per cubic foot.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Paulownia
air dries in 30 to 60 days without cupping, warping, cracking or
splitting. Kiln drying takes 36 to 60 hours depending on Dry kiln
configuration, horsepower and dimension of lumber.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Paulownia
is resistant to decay and rotting provided it is not in permanent
contact with the ground.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Paulownia
species vary in porosity according to Variety but range from 75 to
88% in comparison with poplar 70 to 72%.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Fire
resistance is a feature of all Paulownia, Ignition temp 420 to 430
deg Celsius as compared to Average hardwood at 220 to 225 deg
Celsius.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Density
of Paulownia species @10% moisture content ranges from 17.8 to 23.2
depending on Variety and growing conditions.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Thermal
conductivity of Paulownia is very low thus giving it excellent
heat/cool insulation properties.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Chemical
composition of Paulownia Varieties: Hemicellulose Pentozan 22 to 25%.
Cellulose 46 to 49%. Lignin 21 to 23% Water 7 to 8% Ash .50 to 1.1%
Fiber 58.5 to 60.1%</span></span></span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">INVESTMENT
SECURITY & BENEFITS</span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span><strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">•
Land and Tree Ownership</span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />The
Investor will fully own the land and all trees planted on it. Plot
remains under the Investor’s control at all times! All contracts
ensure that the Investor has sole legal rights to the property and
that no-one can sell, let or use the land for any purpose without
your permission. You are free to sell or lease the plot or use it for
the purpose of this project unless you sign a Buy back timber
contract</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span><strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">•
Timber Sale Price Contracted</span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />The
contractor has a forward purchase contract with four big European
timber trading companies, who have agreed to buy the timber. The
decision to sell the timber produced from your plot to them is
completely yours. From forecasts one plot of 110 trees will
produce 110 m3 of processed timber over 10 years. At the moment
the price of Paulownia timber is £225 – £425 a cubic meter depending
on the quality. </span></span></span></div>
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</strong><strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Developer
Experience</span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: SimSun-ExtB, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />The
project developer has 11 years experience in the forestry sector and
4 years experience in growing Paulownia. The team is made up of highly
motivated stuff trained in Europe and China – the native land of
Paulownia.</span></span></span></div>
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