In Malaysia, wood pellet producer Rainbow Pellet Sdn Bhd has successfully started up the world’s first commercial-scale Steam-Ex pellet plant for empty fruit bunches (EFBs) at its site in Kuala Lipis. Using technology supplied by Austrian technology major Andritz AG (ANDRITZ), this achievement marks a major milestone in the industrial-scale processing of low-value oil palm residues into high-quality advanced solid biofuels with coal-like properties.