About us : POIC

Located in south-eastern Sabah, the Lahad Datu Palm Oil Industrial Cluster (POIC Lahad Datu) is the first dedicated industrial cluster of its kind in Malaysia. It is a model project that will entrench Malaysia's global status in the palm oil industry. POIC Lahad Datu is strategically located in the oil palm belt of Sabah. Its proximity to major palm oil plantations in neighbouring Indonesia's Kalimantan Provinces (Malaysia and Indonesia combine to produce some 80% of the global palm oil output) and lauric oil production areas in the Southern Philippines makes it potentially the international focal point for vegetable oil-based industries.

POIC Lahad Datu was established in 2005. The initial 1,150 acres in the first phase of the 5,000-acre cluster have received overwhelming responses especially from investors in biodiesel. Foreign and Malaysian investors are planning biodiesel plants with combined capacity of over 1 million tonnes per year. Some of these plants have begun production since 2007.

POIC Lahad Datu is also aggressively promoting industries utilizing the large volume of biomass generated from the oil palm plantations in Sabah.