An integrated sawmill and Pellet Plant
Rainbow Pellet operates a single production facility at Kechau Tui, in Kuala Lipis, Pahang, with two production lines. Industrial wood pellets, and advanced black pellets made from empty fruit bunches. A pellet plant needs a steady, clean supply of wood residue. A sawmill produces exactly that, continually, as a by-product of cutting timber. Building them on one site removes the transport between them, the handling losses, and most of the traceability risk.
What arrives at the pellet plant
Sawdust, wood chips, bark and off cuts including those produced by sawmill on this site.
End-of-life rubberwood from rubber plantations that have reached the end of their latex-producing life and are being replanted.
Empty fruit bunch fiber, used as fuel in our boiler.
Advanced black pellets from empty fruit bunches.
In June 2026 we commissioned a second production line at Kechau Tui using Steam-Ex technology supplied by ANDRITZ.
The world's first commercial-scale plant to convert empty fruit bunches into advanced solid biofuel.
Empty fruit bunches are what is left after palm fruit has been stripped for oil. Steam explosion breaks the fibre down under pressure before it is densified.
The result is a pellet that resists moisture and can be used as a direct replacement for coal. The line has its own feedstock, its own process and its own storage.
CONTROLS
Weighbridge
Every delivery is weighed and recorded by stream.
Separate bays and storage
Sawmill intake, processing residues and rubberwood are handled and stored apart, as set out in the site layout.
Chain of custody
Each stream is documented under our SBP,
PEFC and Green Gold Label systems.