Sustainable Bio-Business in ASEAN:
Introduction to CHITOSE Group
16 th February 2017

Chitose Bio Evolution Pte. Ltd.

About CHITOSE Group
April 2016

Rep.

Founder＆CEO

Est.

Oct. 2011

Tomohiro Fujita

Capital724,015 SGD （Market Cap.: 140M SGD as of 2015）

Share
Holder

T. FUJITA
62.8%
Angel Investors 18.3%

Employee

Employee
IHI Corp.

14.6%
4.3%

No. of Employee: 93（incl. executives, advisors, & part-time)
No. of Employees w/ science educational bg: 90%
No. of Ph.Ds: 21
Nationality（JP, TW, MY, SG, PH, CN）

History

Location

2011

Establishment of Chitose Bio Evolution
Pte.Ltd (CBE) as a holding company. NeoMorgan Laboratory Inc. became asubsidiary of CBE.

2012

Establishment of Chitose Agri Laboratory
Sdn.Bhd.

2013

Acquisition of Nihon Biodata Corp.

2014

Establishment of Tavelmout Corp.

2015

Strategic Investment from IHI corporation

2015

Establishment of Chitose Agriculture
Initiative Pte.Ltd.

10 Offices & Labs （JP 5, SG, MY 3, TH）© 2017 Chitose Bio Evolution Pte. Ltd. All Rights Reserved.

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Our Mission
 Transferring our society from “Fossil-Fuel based” to “Solar-Energy based” throughbiotechnology.

Fossil-Fuel Based Society
0. Fossil Fuel(467 EJ/y)

Solar-Energy Based Society
0. SolarEnergy(920,000EJ/y)

5. Service

3. Sales

4. Re-use

5. Service

3. SalesCO2

Bio-tech

1. Material

2. Processing 4. Waste

One-Way Wasting

1. Material

2. Processing

Recycling© 2017 Chitose Bio Evolution Pte. Ltd. All Rights Reserved.

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Our Projects
 We have more than ten on-going projects domestically and internationally to achieve ourmission. Today, we introduce two projects we currently conduct in Malaysia.
① Utilization of Palm plantation effluent② Transferring Japanese sustainable AgtechnologyHA© 2017 Chitose Bio Evolution Pte. Ltd. All Rights Reserved.

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Palm Oil Industry
 Global market size of palm oil industry is over 70 billion USD. “Oil palm belt” lies around theequator ± 10-15 degrees of latitude. Indonesia and Malaysia contribute 85% of global Palmoil production.

Palm Oil Products

Palm oil producing country (2012)
OthersColombia
Nigeria
ThaiMalaysia
Indonesia85%© 2017 Chitose Bio Evolution Pte. Ltd. All Rights Reserved.

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Problems Associated with Palm Plantation
 Various environmental problems associated with the establishment of huge palm plantation
have been increasingly reported recently.

Soil & Water Pollution
Soil Erosion

Large-Scale Deforestation
Air Pollution

loss of critical habitat for endangeredspecies© 2017 Chitose Bio Evolution Pte. Ltd. All Rights Reserved.

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Bio-Recycling System
 Palm plantation consumes huge quantity of fertilizers, Nitrogen(N), Phosphorus(P) andPotassium(K). We are implementing a nutrient recycling system aiming to improve
environmental sustainability in palm plantation/industry.
Photosynthesis
CO2Accumulation of Nutrients(Harvesting)

ProcessingProductCP NP N
CKCKEmpty Fruit BunchC N P K

N P K
Current situation

Synthetic Fertilizer
大量の化学肥料

N P K

C K
Solid waste
CWaste water

Bio-Recycling System

C N P K

CompostCO2

Duckweed cultivationPN

CKFeed for livestock

PN
CKN
N PP K
K
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Nutrition Uptake by Duckweed Duckweed absorbs N,P,K in effluent and synthesizes biomass.
 Not only Duckweed itself, but also symbiotic microbial activities around Duckweed underwater, contribute to decrease nutrient in the water, and thus, BOD.

Surface of the water

N P K
N P KPP

HarvestedKNPNDuckweed

NKK:Symbiotic Bacterium:Organic matter( BODelements):Degraded BOD metabolite
Water contains variouselements including thebacterium which lives
symbiotically on thesurface of the duckweeds
roots

Those bacterium will
assimilate the organicmatter(BOD elements). At
the same time all thenutrient in the water will
be absorbed by theduckweed for the growth.

But then duckweed will
absorb the material as anutrient source.

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All of these material will
be removed out from thewater with the harvestingof the duckweed.

7Demonstration
 We demonstrated 1-ha Bio-Recycling system.

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Composting Duckweed Biomass
 Duckweed and solid wastes from Palm oil mills were mixed and composted to produce biofertilizer.

Before operation

1st week

4 th week

7 th week＋Start with Fresh EFB
and solid palm wastewith duckweed.

• C/N Ratio control• Moisture control• Activation of the NML
MicrobeMaintenance of theoptimum fermentation
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Filtrate in 5mm filter.
(Still hammer mill isnecessary for thepelletize.)9Our Projects
 We have more than ten on-going projects domestically and internationally to achieve ourmission. Today, we introduce two projects we currently conduct in Malaysia.
① Utilization of Palm plantation effluent② Transferring Japanese sustainable
Ag-technology
HA© 2017 Chitose Bio Evolution Pte. Ltd. All Rights Reserved.

10Strawberry in South-East Asia
 “Authentic strawberries” are rarely available at local grocery stores in ASEAN countries. We
planed to produce Japanese high-quality strawberry on site, and deliver them to ASEAN
countries at a reasonable price.
GradePrimeAQuality

Differences
Japanese sweetestspecies
×
Locally produced
Japanese sweetspecies
×
Imported

BLess sweet species
×
Locally producedC

Less sweet species
×
ImportedMarket sharein Singapore

0%0.3%(10t/year)

19.7%(600t/year)

80.0%(2,400t/year)© 2017 Chitose Bio Evolution Pte. Ltd. All Rights Reserved.

Majority of commerciallyavailable strawberries atlocal stores are actually“Grade C”!
11Japanese Eco-Friendly Cultivation Technology We provided advanced ag-technology from Japan, set up well-designed production system,
and introduced efficient management system.

Conventional system

Our system

・Excess use of pest/herb-icides

・Minimized use of pest/herb-icides

・Low productivity

・High productivity

・Inefficient energy use

・Efficient energy use

Inefficientpipingsystem

Vulnerable to pests
and disease due
to inadequate shieldingof green houses

High Environmental Impact

Low Environmental Impact

Stacked strawberriesWith inefficient sunlight usage© 2017 Chitose Bio Evolution Pte. Ltd. All Rights Reserved.

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Local Production System

 We first acquired the most suitable area, Cameron highlands, for growing strawberries. Then,
we obtained the import permit of Japanese Strawberry seedling from the Dept. of Agriculture
in Malaysia. Finally today, our professional farmers reside at the site and produce theAuthentic strawberries..
1.Select suitable environment
2.First formal importer
3.Japanese professional farmer
CameronHighlands

Kuala
LumpurSingapore

Ideal environmental
conditions and access toroads and water.
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CHITOSE’s Whole Supply Chain
 Owning the whole supply chain allows us, CHITOSE Group, to be flexible and quick in
responding to customers’ requests, in optimizing processes to assure the quality of our prime
strawberries.

Production/quality control

Packing with functional
film

Delivery to ourcustomers by staff,
strawberry expert!

Functional packaging
materials to preserve thefreshness of strawberries.
*Chitose Agri Laboratory is the subsidiary or Chitose Bio Evolution. Ptd. Ltd, or CHITOSE Group.
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Market Reaction
 Our strawberries have gained a good reputation.

“Quality this high can’t never be found in other localmarket.
I would like to buy all the strawberries you have”-Emannuel Stroobent, the chief executive chef of Saint Pierre“The sweetest softest strawberry I’ve ever eaten.
Maybe sweeter than the imported strawberry from Japan ”-Tomoharu Morita, the patissiere of Pantlar© 2017 Chitose Bio Evolution Pte. Ltd. All Rights Reserved.

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Other Businesses We are accelerating to set up several Bio-Recycling business in ASEAN countries throughbiotechnologies.

Functional Compost

Waste Water
Treatment

Algae
PhotoBioReactor

Organic
Hydroponics

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Algae Culture forFuel

Algae Culture forFood

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For further information, please contact:

Ken Nakahara, Ph.D.
Director, Chief Photosynthetic Officer
nakahara@chitose-bio.com

Chitose Bio Evolution Pte. Ltd.
6 Eu Tong Sen Street #10-12 The Central
Singapore 059817
Tel: +65-6676-1026
URL: www.chitose-bio.com© 2017 Chitose Bio Evolution Pte. Ltd. All Rights Reserved.

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