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Proudly Sarawakian

Honouring farmers with every sweetness.

We contract smallholders across Sarawak and guarantee to buy their harvest.

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Our four pillars

What we promise to provide to our customers.

Two farmers at a wood-fired wok stove; one stirs the boiling sap while the other strains the finished sugar into a pail.

Contracted farmers, guaranteed buyback

We commit to buy the harvest before the season starts. That is what lets a smallholder plan.

A farmer sharpens his tapping knife in an open-sided wooden shelter.

Vertically integrated pricing

No middleman between farm gate and factory gate, so the buyback price holds when world prices move.

A tapper climbs a coconut palm trunk, high above a plantation of palms.

Consistent supply, year round

Contracted plots give a buyer volume to plan production around, season after season.

A gloved technician spoons a sugar sample onto the pan of a moisture analyser.

Made to your specification

Granulation, moisture and packaging format are set per order, not picked from a catalogue.

What is Gula Apong?

The sugar of the tides.

The nipah palm grows where rivers meet the sea, its trunk below the mud and only its fronds above it. It is not planted in rows or fed with fertiliser — the estuary does the work.

The sugar comes from the palm's flower stalk. A tapper cuts the stalk, and the sap that would have fed the fruit drips into a container instead — clear, mildly sweet, and collected by hand.

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A tapper at the crown of a palm, cutting the flower stalk with a collecting container hung beside him

Better sugar, your way.

Hand-harvested, tapped tree by tree across Sarawak.

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Certified

  • MeSTI — Makanan Selamat Tanggungjawab Industri — Ministry of Health food safety certification

    MeSTI

  • HACCP — Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points

    HACCP

  • GMP — Good Manufacturing Practice

    GMP

  • Halal — JAKIM halal certification

    Halal

  • FSSC 22000 — Food Safety System Certification

    FSSC 22000

Where it goes

Proudly Sarawakian

Eight markets, from West Malaysia to New Zealand. Every shipment carries the batch record back to the plot the sap came from.

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