Bee hoon manufacturers struggle to keep furnaces going


Making do: A worker at a bee hoon factory in Tasek Gelugor showing how palm kernel waste is mixed with wood waste for the furnace. — LIM BENG TATT/The Star

GEORGE TOWN: The production of bee hoon (rice vermicelli) is facing a critical stage with manufacturers running out of wood waste to fuel their furnaces.

To keep production running, manufacturers have resorted to using a mixture of wood waste and palm kernel waste to save their stock of wood waste.

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