Salcon River Programme moulds future environmentally conscious leaders

Forty five (45) primary school-goers from Sekolah Kebangsaan Bandar Sunway and Sekolah Kebangsaan TUDM Subang were given the opportunity to be environmentally conscious leaders of the future via the Salcon River and Water Awareness Educational Programme at Lembah Kiara Taman Tun Dr. Ismail today. 

The Salcon River & Water Awareness Educational Programme is designed to instill awareness amongst our younger generation on the importance of our precious water resources. With the rising and critical needs of raw water resources nowadays, the students obtained an up-close and personal look on the importance of preserving and conserving the environment.

The regional award-winning programme is organized in collaboration with non government organization Water Watch Penang (WWP). Under the guidance of facilitators, the students learned how to conduct river water physical, biological and chemical tests as well as to define the health of the river. This involves water pH testing, water flow monitoring, water turbidity, dissolved oxygen testing and identifying aquatic organism using water monitoring kits.

“We realize that students can understand faster when they are given opportunity to conduct every test by themselves in this programme. We believe this will further open their hearts and minds to the precious natural treasures besides just learning the theory from the textbooks”, said Mr. Mohd Huzaini Husin, teacher of SK Bandar Sunway.

According to one of the students from SK Bandar Sunway, Lokman Hakim Bin Noor Azman, he is very grateful to be able to participate in the exciting activities prepared and gained valuable knowledge about importance of river and also the creatures that live in it. He added that, “I want to share this experience with my friends and family and will continue to love the nature forever and educate my future generation too!”

This was the fifth year in which Salcon has held the Salcon River & Water Awareness Educational Programme for primary schools in Klang Valley. To date, this programme has benefited 24 schools and 4 orphanage homes, involving 514 children.

Salcon’s Senior Manager, Chern Meng Gaik said: “We firmly believe that education via the ‘learning by doing’ approach provides powerful hands-on learning experiences that connect the students to their communities and environment. This will inspire and train these future generations to be responsible & environmentally conscious leaders tomorrow.”

“In line with our objective to reach out to more schools and students, we are thrilled to extend our invitation to the public who are interested to volunteer in facilitating our younger generations in learning the importance of river and water and at the same time provide them opportunity to give back to the society and nature”, said Ms Chern.

If you are interested to volunteer as Salcon Water Ranger programme while unraveling the exciting world of environmental conservation, you are welcome to email to corporate@salcon.com.my to get more information. 

ASIAWATER EXPO & FORUM 2014

It was a great pleasure for Salcon to once again be part of the Asian leading water industry event, ASIAWATER 2014 EXPO & FORUM as sponsor and as one of the exhibitor for the event which was held at Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre from 19-21 March 2014.

The exhibition attracted over 650 exhibitors from 42 countries and numerous government officials, regulators, water and sewerage companies, manufacturers, consultants and industry experts visited to this biennial event.

This year, the objective was to build and preserve a good relationships with our stakeholders such as our partners, public and government agencies. At the same time, the exhibition allowed us to explore new opportunities and to share our experiences in water and wastewater treatment with the visitors.

We are also honored to be able to celebrate our 40th Anniversary with the Minister of Energy, Green Technology and Water, Datuk Seri Dr Maximus Ongkili. 

Salcon would like to thank the following colleagues for their dedication, support and cooperation in manning the booth by sharing information and answering queries from visitors throughout the exhibition.

No	Name	Designation
	BALVINDER SINGH	BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
	BARAN BIN RAZALI	SEWERAGE
	LYDIA OOI SHU LIN	SEWERAGE
	NG SAW HOON	SEWERAGE
	ONG SIAN	SEWERAGE
	ANG TEK HIN	WATER RESOURCES
	CHIA KIAN HONG	WATER RESOURCES
	SANGEET SINGH	WATER RESOURCES
	YUSAINY AMIR BIN MOHD YUSOF	WATER RESOURCES
	ZAHLAN BIN SULAIMAN	WATER RESOURCES
	CHEAH YOU THIAM	ENVITECH
	AHMAD NAZRI BIN MUHAMAD	ENVITECH
	LEE CHEE MENG	ENVITECH
	NG SHIAU FONG	ENVITECH
	LEE YEN YIH	ENVITECH
	TEH HENG KEE	ENVITECH
	TANG KIN HENG	ENVITECH
	HUAN LEE CHING	ENVITECH
	YAP SWEE LAM	ENVITECH
	KANG TAY OU	ENVITECH
	TERESA TAN	FINANCE
	CHERN MENG GAIK	SENIOR MANAGER - CORPORATE AFFAIRS
	FUNG CHYE VUN	SENIOR EXECUTIVE - CORPORATE AFFAIRS
	LEE SHEE BEE	EXECUTIVE - CORPORATE AFFAIRS
	NOR ANITA BINTI ALIAS	EXECUTIVE - CORPORATE AFFAIRS

Salcon Christmas Celebration & Gift Exchange 2013

It was a lovely Christmas celebration with colleagues today at Salcon HQ. A simple yet meaningful Christmas gift exchange session was held with laughter and joy. Thanks to those who joined and wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday!

Many Christmas gifts was ready to be exchanged with colleagues

A joyful moment with colleagues during the gift exchange session

Celebration of Deepavali

The management of Salcon Berhad gave away Indian Candies to all staff on 29^th October 2013 to celebrate Deepavali and wished the festival of lights brightens everyone's home and heart with peace and serenity.

Innovative reuse of recycled materials in Salcon-MPSJ Green Inventor Competition 2013

10 teams from 9 secondary schools in Klang Valley competed for the most innovative water invention made from recycled materials today in the inaugural Salcon Green Inventor Competition 2013 at Kompleks Puchong Perdana. The Salcon Green Inventor Competition 2013 is organized in collaboration with MPSJ’s Karnival Zon Bersih.

The Salcon Green Inventor competition is part of Salcon Berhad’s Corporate Social Responsibility initiative in celebration of World Environmental Day 2013. The programme aims to promote awareness on the importance of recycling to preserve the environment, in addition to polishing creative minds amongst the youths to create something useful and practical using recycled materials.

 

 “The programme serves as a platform for secondary school children to utilize their imagination and creativity to come up with a green masterpiece in the spirit of team work and at the same time, to appreciate the beauty of nature in their daily life” said Mr Yap Sui Pon, project director of Salcon Berhad.

45 students are given more than one month time to complete their water-based invention, combining their scientific skills to put together their green creations such as water filter, cleanser, water collector and many more.  The students are judged based on their creativity and practicality of creations, the use of recycle materials, and the group presentations.

 

“It is our honor to work with Salcon Berhad for the first ever Salcon-MPSJ Green Inventor Competition 2013. Besides sharing the same objectives which to promote awareness and conservation of our environment for a better future, we perceive that this programme is an added value to our Zon Bersih campaign”, said Mr Zamir, Assistant Director of Corporate Planning of MPSJ.

Salcon is delighted to get to work hand in hand with MPSJ in organizing such a successful event and looking forward to have more opportunity to organize similar activities which can benefit the community and the environment.

Champion of Salcon-MPSJ Green Inventor from SMK Tasek Permai, Ampang with their creations namely Green Filter.

1st Runner Up winner from SMK Tengku Ampuan Rahimah, Klang with their creations namely Eco-Friendly Fabric Filteration

 

2nd runner up winner form SMK Bandar Baru Bangi with their invention namely Joy Drops & Portable Pipe.

Salcon Train the Trainers Programme for River & Water Educational Programme

28 teachers from 7 primary schools in Selangor participated in the Salcon Train the Trainers Programme (Salcon ToT Programme) to learn how to conduct the award-winning Salcon River & Water Awareness Educational Programme at Lembah Kiara, Taman Tun Dr. Ismail (TTDI).

 

The inaugural Salcon ToT Programme is an extension of the Salcon River & Water Educational Programme which is organized by Salcon Berhad in collaboration with non-governmental organisation Water Watch Penang (WWP) with the objective of increasing awareness and education of the importance of river and water amongst youths in Klang Valley via hands-on experience of river water monitoring.
 

 

The Salcon ToT programme aims to guide and train selected teachers from primary schools in the Klang Valley to conduct their own river and water educational programme. The seven schools which joined this sustainable effort are SK TTDI 2, SK Seksyen 9, SK Damansara Damai 1, SJKC Ladang Harcroft, SJKC Chen Moh, SJKT Puchong and SJKT Batu Caves. The teachers/trainers learnt about physical, chemical and biological water assessment.

Salcon signs RM518.3m deal with BEWG for disposal of China Concessions

On 12 September 2013, Salcon Berhad announced that it and its its joint venture company Salcon Water (Asia) Ltd have entered into two Sale and Purchase Agreements (SPA) with Beijing Enterprises Water Group Limited (BEWGL) for the disposal of 100% shares of six (6) water companies for a total consideration of RMB955 million (approximately RM518.3 mil).

Upon completion, the exercise will bring in total cash of RM 284 million (net of liabilities) and will contribute RM94.6 million of profit to the Group. The disposal of the Group’s China assets allows Salcon to retain a healthy balance sheet with improvements on its Earnings Per Share (EPS) from 2.21 sen to 16.9 sen, and net asset per share from RM0.80 to RM0.91.

“We view this offer an extremely attractive proposition, and also a win win deal for both parties. With our positive view of the growth opportunities of our property development and water business in Malaysia, this is indeed a good opportunity for us to unlock the value of our investment in the PRC and allow us to focus on growing our business domestically.” says Dato Eddy Leong, Executive Director of Salcon Berhad. “This exercise will give Salcon more funds to secure good land banks and to expand further into property development.”

Salcon has received approval from shareholders to venture into property development during its EGM on 19^th March 2013, in an effort to diversify its income base.

Salcon’s maiden property project features a 21-storey commercial building comprising 12 units of two-storey shop office with total net saleable area of 40,600 sq ft and 280 units of SOHO with net saleable area of 244,460 sqft in Selayang.

Fun Day away from studies for SJKC Sin Ming students at Bukit Kiara

Students from SJKC SinMing rolled up their pants to discover more on Sg Penchala water quality

There is a saying that “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy”. Salcon Berhad, through its award winning CSR programme, the Salcon River & Water Awareness Educational programme, injected some fun and play for 40 pupils and 4 teachers from SJKC Sin Ming, Puchong on 24 August 2013 (Sat).

The happy and enthusiastic faces of the primary school children aged between 10-12 years old were evident throughout the 4 hour long programme.  The children gathered at Lembah Kiara Taman Tun Dr. Ismail, a green lung in the heart of the city and conducted hands-on physical and chemical tests on the Sg Penchala river using water monitoring kits.

Madam Lee Luen Lee, teacher of SJKC Sin Ming was happy that the school was invited to join the programme. “This is a very good opportunity for the pupils to truly understand the importance of caring for our river and water. Although the theory has been taught in the classroom, they will get better understanding through this kind of hands-on programme. We believe at the end of the programme, the children have gotten the message of importance of caring for our water resources.”

 

Mr. Han Khim, the facilitator from WWP teaching the children on how to differentiate the microorganism as water  quality indicators

Children get to know more about water conservation through the event.

 

Children enjoyed the activities with great laughs and fun while learning the knowledge about water