The biggest licenced & reputable agarwood hydro-steam distiller in Malaysia.

Pics show a section of one of the biggest distillers in Malaysia. The raw wild agarwood chips mound are to be grind, ferment & distill using hydro steam distillers. This licenced & reputable distiller only extract the oleoraisin from wild agarwood. Production is about min. 4 liters per month of pure good quality greenish & yellowish natural pigment oleoraisin & pure distilled agarwood hydrosol, colloid suspension in water, that contain water soluble agarwood active compounds.

(Herbal distillates are aqueous solutions or colloidal suspensions (hydrosol) of essential oils usually obtained by steam distillation from aromatic plants. These herbal distillates have uses as flavorings, medicine and in skin care. Herbal distillates go by many other names including floral water, hydrosol, hydrolate, herbal water and essential water, Wikipaedia).



Hydro-steam distillation is one several conventional extraction methods. New agarwood extraction technology is supercritical CO2 extraction method which do almost 100% oleoraisin extraction & less than 1% of oleoraisin wastage. The efficiency of extraction duration per batch is about 5 minutes. The active compounds that dilluted & dissolved in hydrosol from the hydro-steam distillation process is still intact in supercritical CO2 extraction process of oleoraisin. Several test done on supercritical CO2 extraction of agarwood oleoraisin shows that this extraction process produce superior quality agarwood oleoraisin, as all the oleoraisin compounds totally extracted. This technology is avialable & developed locally at Science University, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia.

Agarwood entreprenour must pay attention to this extraction method.