A Malaysian bio-tech company on Wednesday signed an agreement with Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) on a pilot project to produce biofuels from mill waste. The partnership with All Cosmos Bio-Tech Holding Co. Ltd. (ACBT) of Malaysia will also involve the transfer of ITRI sugar production and purification technologies. Under the agreement, ACBT will build a pilot plant in Malaysia within a year and will later expand it into a "quasi-commercialize plant" with a processing capacity of 100,000 tons of empty fruit bunches (EFB) per year. Source: Focus Taiwan 22/5/2019