The Business of Cool

Datuk (Dr) Kelvin Tan, Chairman of TSH Resources Berhad and Ekowood International Berhad, wants a cleaner, greener future. And he’s made no secret of it.

TSH Resources has registered four Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) initiatives since 2006. The three methane recovery and utilisation projects and one bio energy project generate an average of 280,000 certified emission reduction credits per annum.

(A credit is given to an emission source that voluntarily reduces emissions beyond required levels of control.) And the force behind this was Tan himself, whose epiphany had put the group on the track of environmental heroism – the new millennium’s epitome of corporate cool.

His office in Kuala Lumpur is ensconced in the fairly green lung along the Duta-Semantan on-ramp. It’s just begun to rain outside. The thunder booms and lighting crackles. Inside, however, the mood is one of serenity. The spacious open-concept office is a light vista of steel, glass, wood and high ceilings. Staff go about their work, occasionally illuminated by flashes of lightning.

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