24 September 2014 - Apical, as a processor and trader of palm oil, is committed to ensuring sustainability in its entire supply chain, from cultivation to consumption.

This commitment is reinforced and manifested through its support for the New York Declaration on Forests announced at the United Nations Climate Summit 2014. The declaration is an international, multi-sector commitment to safeguard the world’s forests and to help tackle climate change.

On June 18, 2014, Our Environment-Friendly Behavior – 2014 RGE National Drawing Contest on Environmental Protection for Primary and Secondary School Students was officially launched in Beijing. This contest is hosted by the Center for Environmental Education & Communications of Ministry of Environmental Protection of China, and co-organized by Youth.cn and RGE.

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.

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.

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?

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.