AquaEco: Poison pen letter not from Jiuwu

PETALING JAYA: Palm oil processing solutions provider Aqua Ecotech Sdn Bhd (AquaEco) has ascertained that the allegations of misrepresentation circulated on the company and its AquaEco-SRORS (Solids Removal Oil Recovery System) are not from China’s Jiangsu Jiuwu Hi-Tech Co Ltd.

AquaEco director Andrew Liew said the company has verified with the management of Jiuwu and confirmed that the poison pen letter on its invention was not from Jiuwu. Jiuwu also confirmed that the person who signed off the letter is not employed by the company.
“The email used by this person (sales@jiangsujiuwu.com) is not registered as the company’s email. Jiuwu’s email addresses ends with @jiuwu.com. This proves that the letter from ‘Michael Lim’ is a hoax and does not represent Jiuwu as it claimed. In addition, we have found that the origin of the email address is registered under the domain Google.com; whereas in China, Google domain cannot even be used. Jiuwu’s email domain is 263.net,” Liew said in a letter to its partners and millers seen by SunBiz.
“In the meantime, AquaEco has been given an assurance by Jiuwu that they are giving us their full support, contradicting whatever slander that is in the ‘Michael Lim’ letter.

“We are conducting an investigation into this matter and will take the necessary legal action and report this matter to the relevant authorities upon gathering sufficient evidence,” said Liew.
AquaEco emphasised that its patents are on the entire system and processes and not on the membrane filtration unit used.
“The membrane unit is a generic product that can be purchased from any membrane suppliers. The patent is on both the specification and processes,” said Liew.
The company said its patents were granted based on their inventiveness, novelty and applicability to the palm oil industry; and it has been issued with two certifications of grant of patent, with another three pending.
Last month, SunBiz reported that the Malaysian Palm Oil Board was testing the AquaEco-SRORS.
Little-known AquaEco had revealed the AquaEco-SRORS system in a press conference in November, which allows millers to address long-standing palm oil waste sludge challenges that have been a major industry problem, and a costly affair for decades.