Osaka Corporation Sdn Bhd

OSAKA CORPORATION SDN. BHD. is principally involved in the manufacturing and trading in high quality organic fertilizers and other agro-based products since its incorporation in 1988. We are accredited with QSO 9001 Quality Management System and ISO *4001 Environment Management System certification in year 1997 and 2000 respectively.

Project “SUNRAY” was launched in August, 1988. Sunray® was conceived out of a need to provide farmers with a product that can substitute the traditional use of massive doses of raw chicken manure and chemical fertilizers thereby promoting a more hygienic and healthy environment - minus the flies, maggots and smell.

 

            The initial phase of the project involved the product and market development of Sunray® - a pelletized organic compound fertilizer. After a series of successful field trials conducted in the Cameron Highlands the product was commercially marketed in the Highlands by August, 1988. Sunray® was quickly accepted by the Highland farmers as a quality product that can also help improve soil structure and preserve soil fertility.

 

            Initially Sunray® was contract manufactured (according to Osaka’s specification and formulation) by a local factory which was an Australian-Malaysian joint-venture. Unfortunatelyor fortunately rather, when this factory was sold to another local company the arrangement ended and Osaka had to look for another alternative. By that time Osaka had sufficient sales volume to justify a factory. Osaka commissioned the construction of its own factory to manufacture Sunray® in January, 1990 and started commercial production in May, 1990.

 

            With its own manufacturing facility the Company was in a highly competitive position. It was able to produce a more comprehensive product range to suit both the highlands and lowlands market.

 

The plant also had the flexibility to produce any tailor-made grade to suit any crop situation. Economically the production facility has enabled the company to achieve a more efficient cost structure thus placing it in a resilient position against competition.

 

            For the first five years the Company relied on chicken manure for its organic base but subsequently developed a fermentation process to accelerate the decomposition of organic waste of plant origin to provide an internationally acceptable organic base since many countries strictly prohibit the import oforganic fertilizers derived from animal waste in order to prevent transmission of disease carrying pathogens. Around the same time Osaka had also erected its own fertilizer granulation plant in collaboration with the Japanese. As a result the Company switched to manufacturing Sunray® as a granular organic-compound fertilizer from organic waste of plant origin. This was an important milestone that enabled the company to reach out for the export market. In its continue research and development, the Company is now producing the third generation of environmental friendly bio-organic fertilizer containing the beneficial soil micro-organisms.

 

            Initially Sunray® was marketed to the vegetables farmers, flower growers and home gardeners but had eventually penetrated the fruit, rice and oil palm market sectors. Today, Sunray® is distributed throughout Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak as well as exported overseas to countries like Vietnam, Myanmar, Thailand, Indonesia, Cambodia, Taiwan, Greece and the Middle East.

The practice of intensive cultivation (growing of crops all year round without rest for the soil) depletes soil nutrients and its organic component. The depletion of organic matter in the soil gradually leads to loss of soil fertility. To maintain economic yields it is important for the farmer to replenish the organic content of the soil to restore its fertility.

 

     Fertilizers can broadly be grouped as organic or inorganic(chemical). The term organic fertilizer embraces all types of fertilizers containing organic matter that provides nutrient elements required for plant growth. The values of such fertilizers lie in their soil-conditioning properties whilst their source o nutrient elements could be considered as low. Examples are poultry manure, bonemeal, fishmeal, soya bean meal, etc. Chemical fertilizers include all types of fertilizers containing elements like Nitrogen, Phosphorous, Potassium, Magnesium, Calcium, Sulphur, etc. Such fertilizers are highly concentrated and contain definite amounts of plant nutrient(s) in them. Chemical fertilizers are appropriate when large doses need to be supplied to plants. Examples are Muriate of Potash(60% K2O), Urea (46% N), etc.

 

     Osaka specializes in organic-chemical fertilizers which are marketed under the trade name of Sunray®. The products are manufactured from composted soya bean, tapioca and rice bran wastes and fortified with nutrients from chemical fertilizers and agglomerated into granules.

 

     Sunray® is a complete fertilizer containing all plant nutrients, required for healthy plant growth, including Macronutrients like Nitrogen, Phosphorous, Potassium, Magnesium, Calcium, Sulphur, and Micronutrients like Boron, Copper, Iron, Manganese, Zinc, Molybdenum, Silicon, etc. It also contains a substantial proportion of organic matter which acts as a soil-conditioner by improving soil structure, soil aeration and water retention capacity of the soil. The organic component also increases the cation exchange capacity (c.e.c.) of the soil thereby significantly reducing the rate of leaching of highly soluble nutrients like Potassium (K+).

 

     The chemical fortification process also ensures that the product contains sufficient nutrients required for healthy plant growth and maximum crop yield. The product is also consistent in their nutrient analyses and can fit into agronomically planned fertilizer programmed adopted by the larger commercial growers or plantations.

 

     Sunray® is both a fertilizer and soil-conditioner. Its regular application to farmland, orchards and plantations is guaranteed to improve soil structure and maintain soil fertility. Sunray® offers the ideal solution to long term soil management as a safeguard against soil exhaustion under perennial cropping of intensive cash cropping. Sunray® protects the farmer’s investment in land to ensure that it yields an acceptable level of income in the long term.