The project is part of the infrastructural development of Samalaju Industrial Park, the centre of the Sarawak Corridor of Renewable Energy (SCORE), Bintulu Sarawak. Japan’s Tokuyama Corp, formed in 1918, sets up Tokuyama Malaysia Sdn Bhd to construct a RM2.36 billion plant to produce polycrystalline silicon for solar panels. The whole development covers an area of approximate 200ha and to be implemented in five phases. Phase I and Phase II respectively will have an annual production capacity of 6 000 metric ton and 13,800 metric ton of industrial materials annually. Under Phase V, it is forecasted that an additional production with a capacity of 68 000 metric ton of the silicon will be produced. The project site was chosen to build a primary overseas production plant in Malaysia because of the competitive cost, the abundant hydropower in Sarawak and the available cutting edge technology.

The project is designed to encompasses facilities that would able the plant to operate and function efficiently to serve its purpose and its inhabitants. The project layout consist of the plant buildings, administration building, transformer yard, laboratory, canteen, medical centre, product warehouse, raw material warehouse, chemical warehouse, maintenance shop, maintenance warehouse, guard house, plant toilets, covered car park, covered parking bays for buses, track scale shed, dump yard storage and waste yard storage. The design also implemented sound practices that minimise environmental impacts and eliminate health risks and nuisance to its surrounding area near to the construction site. The project has taken an Environmental Assessment in identifying activities which will have a critical environmental impact such as the air quality, geology and soils, water resources, water quality and marine ecology, solid waste, noise, transportation, design safety and its inhabitants.

In connection with preparation and planning the project, we have established conditions to preserve safety, health and working environment into the overall project design.