In Papua New Guinea, Rimbunan Hijau is the single biggest logging operator, and runs the country's biggest sawmill. It also owns one of the two major newspapers in the country, The National.[2]
The company was established in 1975 and has an estimated annual turnover of more than US$1 billion, according to Malaysia-China Business Council.[3]
Education (Learning Mandarin) -- "Zhong Hua Han Yu"
Human Capital Development—Rimbunan Hijau Academy
Engineering & Construction
Subsidiaries
RH Petrogas Limited
In January 1997, a subsidiary of Rimbunan Hijau named Woodsville Private Limited bought a Singaporean company named Tri-M Technologies that provides electronics contract manufacturing services. Woodsville is in turn owned by Surreyville Pte Ltd, an investment holding company under RH group. In 2009, Surreyville and Sharptone Investments owned 50.56% and 28.03% of Tri-M. Tri-M was renamed to Petrogas in the same year.[6]
By country
Equatorial Guinea
Rimbunan Hijau (PNG) Limited was established in 1988.[7] It is the dominant player in the logging sector in Equatorial Guinea by the subsidiary Shimmer International.[8] Rimbunan Hijau was in 1999 also logging contractor for Teodorin Obiang, the agriculture and forests minister of Equatorial Guinea and the son of the president.[9]
Two groups that have made investigations and held protests against the company are Greenpeace and Rainforest Action Network. Rimbunan Hijau in turn has threatened to sue Greenpeace for defamation because of its report "The Untouchables - Rimbunan Hijau’s World of Forest Crime and Political Patronage"[3] demanding that the group withdraw the paper. Greenpeace has declined to comply.[11]
Citibank, following a review of its own environmental policies in 2005, declared that it would require the client Rimbunan Hijau to obtain credible, independent, third party certification for its Papua New Guinea operations in the future.[12]