InfoSAWIT, TOKYO - Panasonic Housing Solutions, the subsidiary of Panasonic Holdings, did a breakthrough by re-cycling palm oil tree as the waste to be qualified materials for furniture. Dead palm oil trees were processed to be wooden board. This would be the new potential to develop sustainable products from (palm oil) wastes.

As InfoSAWIT quoted from Nikkei Asia, Thursday (9/5/2024), even though it is in a test process, Panasonic Housing Solutions has provided wooden board for 15 furniture producers in Japan. Some products, for instance, bed, and others made of wooden boards, have been sold in Japan since 2022.

This showed the commitment of Panasonic by taking advantages on palm oil tree wastes effectively while producing high quality furniture. The representatives of Panasonic Housing Solutions mentioned that they are considering to use (dead) palm oil trees as the materials to produce construction materials in the future, would open the chance to produce many applications in construction industries.

The innovation would reduce not only the wastes and support circular economic practices but also provide additional values for furniture industries by providing more environmental and high quality – materials. By always developing production technology and process, palm oil (tree) wastes in furniture industries would be the effective solution to support the sustainability in the society.

Prior, Japanese and Malaysian researchers are developing project research to make pellet as fuel from old (dead) palm oil trees. It was led by Akihiko Kosugi of Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Science (JIRCAS). Universities, the business in Japan, such as, a technic company - IHI, do participate with the Government of Malaysia and University of Science, Malaysia – the big research university in the country. (T2)