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APRIL Encourages Sustainable Forestry Practices

Sukanto Tanoto, the Indonesian businessman and philanthropist who founded and now heads the RGE Group of natural resources manufacturing companies, puts great emphasis on practices that foster conservation. One of the companies under the RGE umbrella, Asia Pacific Resources International Limited (APRIL), is among the world’s foremost producers of paper products, fiber, and wood pulp. In fact, the largest pulp and paper mill currently operating worldwide is the APRIL facility in Riau Province on the island of Sumatra.

Sateri Focuses on Viscose Staple Fiber and Specialty Pulp Segments

In the announcement of the unaudited results for the six months ended June 2014, Sateri Holdings Limited reported increased revenue despite declining product prices, as operations were ramped-up at the new viscose staple fiber (VSF) plant in Fujian, China, which commenced production in December 2013. With three of the four production lines of the new Fujian VSF plant now in operation, Sateri is now focused on two products – VSF and specialty-grade dissolving wood pulp (DWP), thereby reducing exposure to market price fluctuations in the rayon-grade DWP market.

Tanoto family values set the foundation for success in business

Sukanto Tanoto directs the operations of the RGE Group, the $15 billion global family of natural resources-based companies he founded in Indonesia and expanded into the global stage. This is a family business that has been handed down for two generations, is firmly rooted in family values and that has been the key to its success.

Sukanto Tanoto stays committed to sustainable development and conservation of natural resources

Sukanto Tanoto owns world-largest integrated pulp and paper mill; plants 200 million seedlings every year.

Sukanto Tanoto, who dropped out of school at a young age, spent nearly 50 years building RGE Group, an international group with USD15billion assets and 50,000 employees. The group owns the world's largest integrated pulp and paper mill as well as palm oil plantations with an area equal to one and a half times that of Singapore. How does the Indonesian tycoon, who has established his business headquarters in Singapore, ensure the sustainability of his business by integrating the concept of environmental protection? What advice does he have to offer to young entrepreneurs?

Tanoto Foundation’s Gift to Advance Research in Cardiovascular Medicine

The National Heart Research Institute Singapore (NHRIS) was launched by President Tony Tan at the SingHealth Duke-NUS Scientific Congress 2014, which is a platform to showcase the latest medical developments. This new research institute is a collaboration between the National Heart Centre Singapore and Duke-National University Singapore (NUS), and it will focus on research themes such as blood vessel functions, genetics and metabolic heart diseases.