LamsoonEdibleOilSdnBhd

Lam Soon Malaysia began operation in 1958 milling and refining copra. The oil extracted was used to make laundry soap and cooking oil. The earliest branded products then were Axe and Labour, names that stood for the Lam Soon work ethic. From this humble beginning, Lam Soon progressively diversified into the manufacture of toilet soap (under the brand Orchid), margarines and shortening using palm oil as raw material.
  
1970 saw Lam Soon becoming the pioneer of the palm oil refining industry when it built Malaysia's first oil fractionation plant to manufacture cooking oil. Recognizing the potential of palm oil, Lam Soon moved upstream and established plantations in both East and Peninsular Malaysia.

By 1985 Lam Soon's oil and soap manufacturing businesses were restructured into Lam Soon (M) Berhad to comply with the country�� New Economic Policy.

In 1987, Lam Soon (M) Berhad and Lion Corporation Japan incorporated Southern Lion as an equal joint venture. The Company is based in Tebrau, Johor and produces detergents, home care products and markets oral and beauty care products.




Southern Nissin Bio-Tech Sdn Bhd was set up in 1994 as a joint venture between Lam Soon (M) Berhad, Nisshin Oil Mills Ltd and Mitsubishi Corporation Japan to develop and market special edible oil made from bio-technology process.


Further downstream was realised when Lam Soon (M) Berhad entered into a joint venture with Akzo Nobel, a Dutch chemical multinational, to set up an oleochemical complex for the manufacture of distilled fatty acids and refining glycerin for the international market.


In 1997, Lam Alliance International Ltd was incorporated in Hong Kong as a subsidiary of Lam Soon (M) Berhad to import and market beauty soap in the people's republic of China.